Example sentences of "[prep] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only fair that tourism should not , like ivy , choke the Alps , since if the ‘ product ’ is not looked after it may slip well past its ‘ sell-by date ’ . |
| 2 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 3 | So if you look down your table you 've got your concentrations here in parts per million and you can see that everything above fluorine would be a major constituent and everything below it would be a minor constituent . |
| 4 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 5 | A dado rail , fixed round the room at the level of chair backs , with painted panelling below it will add more character . |
| 6 | The area in the vicinity of welding and all below it should be thoroughly cleared of all flammable rubbish , the welding area should be screened as completely as possible , all inflammable materials should be removed or covered with fire protective sheets . |
| 7 | The most watched programme other than a soap was a repeat of Denis Norden 's The Worst Of It 'll Be Alright On The Night . |
| 8 | save up because fifty pound of it 'll go to my mum to ma , erm mum 's birthday present |
| 9 | I was gon na say , if they lose it 's I think a lot of it 'll be through the poll tax . |
| 10 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 11 | As regards the substantial outside assistance to the Western Isles , one wonders whether a small part of it might not usefully be redirected to subsidising the high costs of transport between them and the mainland . |
| 12 | She dismissed the taxi at the corner of Dorchester Terrace , thinking that the sight of it might alarm her sister . |
| 13 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 14 | Some of it might even be , at least briefly , in the form of matter , since matter and energy are interchangeable . |
| 15 | Then , in the next chapter , after elaborating further on the features of psychosis itself , we shall return to examine how explanations of it might also give an account of certain aspects of the creative process . |
| 16 | That is , continuous dynamic dealing with minor perturbations is automatic and so also is the application of basic rules about safety ; for example , the system or some part of it might be programmed to go through a step-change function such as a shut-down if certain parameters exceed prescribed limits . |
| 17 | Divided , more of it might survive |
| 18 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 19 | Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true . |
| 20 | And you eat in what is called messes so that you eat in a mess of four and the server comes in and puts a plate of it might be venison and a plate of which is a kind of erm corn and er in front of you . |
| 21 | I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm |
| 22 | On days when wing inspection would come around and check our tech supplier for spare parts , we would load this trailer with all the illegal spare parts we were n't supposed to have , cos they , like the couple of it might call it for three starters and we had six , seven or eight . |
| 23 | I think one part of it might be rented out , but not the shop , but I think he might be renting them out as well |
| 24 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 25 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 26 | The sudden , sharp increase in cross-Atlantic skiing traffic owes much to the claims of some American resorts that they can guarantee snow cover , even if as much as 75 per cent of it may be man-made . |
| 27 | While much of it may seem blindingly obvious , one non-NHS member of the team behind the strategy points out : ‘ Irrespective of the fact that the approach is well recognised in industry , it 's totally innovative in NHS terms . |
| 28 | Other regions that on the face of it may seem rather benign — including open reaches of tropical ocean — may , for long periods , be almost devoid of life . |
| 29 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 30 | More , or even enough , of it may exhaust the allocation of resources for paediatric care . |