Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continuity , stability , mutual reliance , it says ; yet a change of wind or tide could end it all . |
| 2 | The couple themselves may find it no problem , but Grandpa or Auntie may see it differently . |
| 3 | Until recently what was on the child 's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question . |
| 4 | It was the only thing on the horizon , shouldering aside achievement and sensation with attention-seeking roughness , and nothing , not conversation , wine , sexual encounters or the search for knowledge or fame could prevent it . |
| 5 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 6 | His flight or suicide would confirm it . ’ |
| 7 | So before making the ultimate decision on a new home , just run a check over your budget and see how the new house or flat would affect it . |
| 8 | No self-respecting lady or gent would use it now . |
| 9 | Patients awaiting investigations or surgery may find it helpful to keep occupied , by reading or watching television . |
| 10 | In Chapter 9 we suggest that the provision of user-friendly , confidential services will encourage this surfacing , whereas repressive policies , stigmatisation or persecution will discourage it . |
| 11 | It 's also flexible ; anyone who wants to produce a newsletter , brochure or advertisement will find it meets their needs . |
| 12 | A further complication inherent in the distinction between illegality and wrongness is that in some cases , as we will see , the fact that a decision is wrong in law or fact will render it illegal . |
| 13 | I have done my best to understand and respond to the desire of people in Cardiff that the scheme should be set out in the Bill so that Parliament can consider it . |
| 14 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 15 | As I shall illustrate later , that cost could not be met , and I do not think that Labour would do it . |
| 16 | If the former , she would wish to be very certain of the value of the prize and fully confident that war will secure it . |
| 17 | We are optimistic that restoration will help it enormously ’ . |
| 18 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 19 | However , USL believes that HP will adopt it within the next three or four months . |
| 20 | The authoritative TV voice concluded : ‘ The tradition of televised Sunday afternoon football means that Sky may find it difficult to maintain viewing levels on Monday evenings with viewers staying loyal to big terrestrial shows . ’ |
| 21 | Anyone wishing to buy furniture out of income rather than capital could have it at the cash payment price plus 5 per cent commission , a quarter of which they had to deposit before the goods were delivered . |
| 22 | ‘ It is likely that the Bosnian Serb civilian population and parliament would consider it an act of war . ’ |
| 23 | Liathach is the greatest challenge to Torridon 's visitors and only those of more than average energy and experience should accept it . |
| 24 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 25 | When she married Darren , 28 , doctors told her that the side effects of drugs and radiotherapy might make it difficult to conceive . |
| 26 | Higg 's ( 1993 ) points out that the phone and photocopying has changed information distribution and e-mail will change it still further . |
| 27 | In some respects the provisions of the P. & C.E. Act in relation to the custody record and the records kept of stop and search should make it easier for the suspect to complain . |
| 28 | The most common is the all-too-familiar cystitis — the bladder could be inflamed and JoJo may think it needs emptying even when it is only partly full , with the result that she could be effectively ‘ caught short ’ . |
| 29 | I 'll come round with the skin and some shots protein and Zip should do it . ’ |
| 30 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |