Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [modal v] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many overseas readers it will be less immediately accessible , except at postgraduate level , without a good deal of preliminary work . |
| 2 | Now we have twenty-five Membas it could be more floating free and liable to vote their consciences . |
| 3 | The main criticism of the notation is that for more specific subjects it can be extremely long . |
| 4 | Hopefully such ideas will spread to the rest of the community , but for the majority of this year 's school leavers it will be too late . |
| 5 | On cheaper brands it can be over 70% |
| 6 | Even in outbred communities it would be very difficult to detect inbreeding costs when infant mortality was high and its causes and those of deformities in offspring were numerous and varied . |
| 7 | Although in many bona fide commercial transactions it may be there will be no element of bounty which would exclude Part XV . |
| 8 | If AFRC is unable to sell any of its three redundant research sites it will be about £7 in the red next year , according to its director general , Prof Tom Blundell . |
| 9 | whenever the court is of the opinion that in the circumstances it would be just and equitable to dissolve the partnership . |
| 10 | Localised knowledge is put to better use and in the right circumstances it may be less costly to establish area factories/offices than to control everything through Head Office ( eg. costs of transportation and travelling may be less ) . |
| 11 | Depending on circumstances it may be more effective to either purchase animals from a commercial breeder or to breed one 's own animals . |
| 12 | Cloud flying , particularly in shower clouds , can be quite a dangerous pastime and on many days it would be totally irresponsible to risk losing a club glider by attempting to climb a large cloud . |
| 13 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 14 | " I 'm sure if I ask Muslim brother for another ten days it will be all right , " the Shah replied stiffly . |
| 15 | Some day it might be a bit less other days it will be more thirty umm but on an average we like to work out the girls to about thirty to twenty five a day . |
| 16 | On cold days it does have the advantage of keeping him warm , but on hot days it can be unbearably uncomfortable . |
| 17 | These days it can be very worthwhile to buy a substantial specimen to give a small garden instant maturity . |
| 18 | For men , the range is usually between 9200 kJ and 12 100 Kj per day although for manual workers it can be more . |
| 19 | With few exceptions it would be extremely difficult to redraw those frontiers to prevent an ethnic group being a minority in a republic . |
| 20 | As equipment becomes more expensive and more teachers are taking private classes it would be greatly appreciated if teachers would let Jean Parmiter know if they have any equipment for sale or to loan or if they know of any evening institute which might be wishing to dispose of some . |
| 21 | If a spell is directed upon a unit of Stone Trolls it will be automatically dispelled on the D6 roll of a 4 , 5 or 6 . |
| 22 | Lindow Moss almost certainly has more to offer , yet within years it will be only a hole in the ground — the same hole that the ice left . |
| 23 | For our purposes it may be more helpful to use the idea of desire when assessing elders . |
| 24 | This will form a braid or plait very common in Aran knitting With a selection of these traditional braids and cables it would be very easy to produce a typical Aran sweater on your machine . |
| 25 | However , in quiet passages it can be most effective and the balance of the voices good . |
| 26 | It winds down into winter , and yet by rights it should be barely midsummer . |
| 27 | It is thought that while this force is insignificant in large voids it can be sufficiently strong in the small pores in very fine-grained material to cause rock fracture . |
| 28 | But I mean a lot of us suggested that rather than pick out all these very difficult to understand erm time tables it would be far better to have a personage at bus stations and things . |
| 29 | The founder 's desire is usually to hand on to his children a more prosperous business than he inherited , and under the latest provisions it will be extremely difficult to do so . |
| 30 | As coding with the Read codes can be more detailed than with other codes it will be more prone to error and may take longer . |