Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] it [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once every six months it may be worth considering removing all the stock to another tank and syphoning all the coral sand out , cleaning it with mature tank water and returning it . |
| 2 | To answer the question whether TFIIA is essentially required or merely involved in potentiating transcription initiation on classical pol III promoters it will be necessary to selectively deplete TFIIA from these fractions by specific antibodies against hTFIIA , the generation of which must , however , await the future cloning and expression of the gene for human TFIIA . |
| 3 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 4 | In light of the potential regulatory effects of alternate expression of the three proteins it will be of interest to examine expression patterns during development or in different cell types . |
| 5 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones . |
| 8 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 9 | Now we have twenty-five Membas it could be more floating free and liable to vote their consciences . |
| 10 | " I 'm sure if I ask Muslim brother for another ten days it will be all right , " the Shah replied stiffly . |
| 11 | Erm in twelve hours it will be half way round , so the position will be reversed . |
| 12 | In five minutes it 'll be the Dougie Down Under Competition , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 13 | Oh I never cook them for twenty , twenty to twenty five minutes it would be a disaster . |
| 14 | And that by now familiar music to many of you means that in five minutes it will be the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 15 | on the tape okay , so if you 're still doing that in the next forty five minutes it will be just as above or whatever |
| 16 | So in twenty four hours it will be exactly as it is now having gone all the way round , yes ? |
| 17 | However in one or two generations it will be possible to change our appearance without affecting relationships , and the sky is not going to drop on us as a result . ’ |
| 18 | The first was a continuation of the earlier sales because Iran had now promised that within about two months it would be able to arrange the release of the remaining five American hostages . |
| 19 | If you get a correlation between two variables it may be because one causes the other , or directly influences it , or it may be that it 's just cha it 's just a chance fluctuation and the two have occurred together , or it may be a combination of the two . |
| 20 | In two weeks it 'd be Christmas . |
| 21 | At an absolute minimum , the worth of the company must be £100m ( in fact , within the next two years it would be worth £25Om . ) |
| 22 | After two days it would be easy enough to extricate herself . |
| 23 | Well if it was four days it would be alright but |
| 24 | However , compared with the 1989 figures it can be seen that these industries are not without their difficulties . |
| 25 | In discussing these two processes it will be helpful still to bear in mind the distinction between universal and particular concepts , because it will be suggested that anchoring is a universal process , whilst objectification is a particular one . |
| 26 | If you have two sides it 'll be quite a few wo n't it ? |
| 27 | In the meantime the discussion will largely remain within the shareholder-centred conception of business enterprise , and during the course of the next seven chapters it will be considered whether in practice the mechanisms of shareholder control , particularly against a background of widely dispersed holdings , are adequate to promote satisfactory levels of corporate efficiency . |