Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 2 | ‘ The Community as a whole should make it absolutely clear that it would warmly welcome East Germany joining West Germany on the basis that it was not admitting a new member state to the Community , but simply recognising the extension of the territory of an existing member ’ , he stated . |
| 3 | Eric Hammond of the Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union said in The Daily Telegraph : ’ It is so fundamentally wrong that it will increasingly threaten Labour 's prospects of a national victory . ’ |
| 4 | In fact , we believe the concept is so popular that it may soon become a national , or even international event ’ . |
| 5 | Notes retails at around £400 a user ( with discounts on multiple purchases ) , and is getting so popular that it may well emerge as the de facto standard for disseminating information . |
| 6 | He regarded it with suspicion , as if afraid that it might suddenly sprout legs and run off . |
| 7 | A relatively clear-cut organisation of this kind , later to become the typical form of internal structure of all foreign offices , had already been introduced in 1661 in Sweden , where the small machine for the control of foreign policy was still part of the royal chancery and hardly an independent entity at all ; but it is interesting that it should also have evolved relatively early in a country still so isolated and underdeveloped as Russia . |
| 8 | The thought of risk and high danger was exciting but it must also have been distorting . |
| 9 | Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance . |
| 10 | The restored importance of indirect taxes , whatever its source , must , in the context of our earlier analysis , have made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 11 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 12 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 13 | Thymectomy has previously been reported to be of benefit in ulcerative colitis , but it is possible that it may also have a beneficial effect in Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | Moreover , the strength of the kink is so low that it will often fail when the glider is only just off the ground . |
| 15 | Climbing in the rain makes you feel a lot more clever than it should rationally justify . |
| 16 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 17 | Whenever Preston said anything that sounded remotely like Famous Last Words , he always said something else quickly , something so trite and meaningless that it could never tempt Fate . |
| 18 | They said constant invigilation was impossible as it would severely limit opening times . |
| 19 | In the past that last question has not always seemed quite as simple as it might now appear . |
| 20 | This is still possible and it can also go further by sharing and co-operation between schools . |
| 21 | There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been . |
| 22 | There was also sadly a degree of controversy with regard to some records , making the work less valuable than it might otherwise have been . |
| 23 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 24 | The dairying operation is now so large that it will soon need to be run as a separate company , and all three of the Rowlands ' children are involved in the enterprise . |
| 25 | A pistol is pointed at its head , because it has been warned that , in the next year , there will be a further review under which it is likely that it will again lose its statutory framework and be cast adrift into voluntarism along with the 22 other boards which have been dismantled in the past eight to nine years . |
| 26 | So , I mean having said , you know , that he was interested to hear what kind of parish , I mean it was , it was obvious that it would also depend on who was available . |
| 27 | ‘ That ought to be a blinding glimpse of the obvious , and it should also be obvious that it will only happen through disciplined and focused teaching . |
| 28 | Once the beer can had been invented , that is evolved , in one place , it was inevitable that it would eventually take the place of the bottle all over the world , though the process is still going on . |
| 29 | It might not be complete but it 'll certainly give us some of them . |
| 30 | We just have to rebuild and make sure that it can never happen again . ’ |