Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 32 | Oh we saw the grass had been flattened in places , but I should imagine that it 's probably by animals . |
| 33 | Here is something that seems very like intelligence , and we must ask whether it is really that , or merely another clever but mechanical programming finesse that we do not yet see . |
| 34 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 35 | Sometimes you may feel that it is really not worth repeating what seems trivial or unimportant ; the effort is tiring , even exhausting . |
| 36 | Well you bu you 'll know if it is n't . |
| 37 | I 'll wait till it 's freely given . ’ |
| 38 | Might do because it 's not close gestures differ . |
| 39 | She felt as though confronted by a child : it 'll be all right , she wanted to say , I 'll see that it 's all right . |
| 40 | The first pad , if you hold it up against any of the other pads , you 'll see that it 's actually slightly shorter . |
| 41 | If you measure the atmospheric rise in carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel burning , you 'll see that it 's only about one half of that predicted if all of the coal and oil that had been burnt since the industrial revolution had gone into the atmosphere , we would probably have er an increase in C O two double what we can actually measure . |
| 42 | keep that hand ready otherwise you 'll discover that it 's not there when you want it , use it , OK |
| 43 | Therefore , while absence may spell the end of acquaintanceship , it will not in itself destroy friendship ; and while Dr Johnson was right to say that we should keep our friendships in good repair , the perpetual shoring up of friendship might suggest that it were less enduring than we had supposed . |
| 44 | Being honest about our motivation is crucial since , at this stage , we might discover that it is not our own Dream at all , or that our motivation is somewhat dubious : ‘ It will impress my friends ’ , ‘ It will be one in the eye for my parents ’ , ‘ It will ease my sense of guilt ’ , ‘ It will make me feel more secure ’ , ‘ It will give me power over other people ’ , ‘ It will make me feel special ’ , ‘ It 's what my partner keeps suggesting I do ’ , ‘ It 's the opposite of what my partner suggests I do . ’ |
| 45 | One might conclude that it is hardly surprising that the term care management is ripe for projection , if case management implementation was so confusing . |
| 46 | The treaty was based on fear of the ‘ dark terrors ’ of what might happen if it were not ratified . |
| 47 | Such a site , once selected , may remain by inertia , occupied in the landscape on the old site , although changing defence and siege technology and political climates might mean that it is never again truly defensible . |
| 48 | He might concede that it is indeed absurd to pretend that in asserting an existential proposition we are in effect talking about all the things in the world . |
| 49 | Or you might plead that it was not slanderous because it was true . |
| 50 | I 'll come if it 's really necessary . ’ |
| 51 | We might find that it is indeed the case that the use of ‘ But ’ at the beginning of a paragraph as described by van Dijk ( 1977 : 139 ) , is a very general marker of topic change . |
| 52 | But if you look deeper into it , you 'll find that it 's really calculated to give us inferior education and deny us full rights as human beings . |
| 53 | I 'll say that it 's not . |
| 54 | You might say that it was n't such a terrible thing , but it 's not the actual abuse that matters so much . |
| 55 | Yet if we reflect a moment , we may realize that it is not so ingenuous after all . |
| 56 | During the drying process particle aggregation may occur and it is most important that sieve residues should be checked , using a hand lens where necessary , to detect the presence of aggregates which form clusters considerably larger than the original single component grains . |
| 57 | Let's see if it 's actually yeah it 's working . |
| 58 | You may believe that it is just because I am an extremely popular person . |
| 59 | I 'd wait till it was properly dark , and then make my way back to Joanna — and a drink ! |
| 60 | Long and low-ceilinged , with an enormous open fireplace , it exuded warmth and the sort of comfortable feel that a perfectly decorated interior could give when it was neither pretentious nor over-grand for the surroundings . |