Example sentences of "and it [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you just pick it and it 'll Is that Channel Four ? |
| 2 | He needs to get his act together because if this continues then it will be Moat today and it 'll be other issues tomorrow and frankly the business of this council will grind to a halt . |
| 3 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 4 | But it will be on a ten point scale and it 'll be ticky box , ten points |
| 5 | And it 'll be twenty pound deposit . |
| 6 | Research at the University of Leeds , in collaboration with Imperial College , London , and the National Engineering Laboratory at East Kilbride , is at an early stage , and it may be 10 years before practical applications for supercritical water are developed . |
| 7 | And it may be hot air … but it 's still the coolest way to travel . |
| 8 | Whatever the technique ( and it may be total silence ) , other members of the group have registered the deviation and the implied message is ‘ OK , we note the deviation . |
| 9 | The auditor must determine the reasonableness of these individual judgments and it may be that specialist ( non-accounting ) assistance will need to be sought . |
| 10 | But the objectives of an explanatory survey are not likely to be so straightforward , and it may be that sampling individuals , though convenient , does not sample the phenomenon of interest . |
| 11 | There is a general rule that the holder may disclose information held in confidence if necessary to protect his own interests , and it may be that disclosure is justified if needed to protect someone from harm . |
| 12 | Clearly , only a percentage of lesions bleed at any one time and it may be that screening favours the detection of more slowly growing tumours ( length or time bias ) . |
| 13 | While small farmers and part-time farmers have to adapt to a changing agriculture , in exactly the same way as large farming businesses , their options for coping with changed circumstances are fewer and it may be that training and the development of new skills and the reinforcement of old skills are important elements in widening their range of options . |
| 14 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 15 | Some thought has to be given to what is possible and it may be that time out can not be used . |
| 16 | It is noted that the diagnosis in two of the patients who died was hepatocellular carcinoma and it may be that referral of these patients was precluded because of this . |
| 17 | Pincanheale was the site of two Northumbrian church councils in 787 and 796 , and it may be that Aethelwald was overthrown at a gathering there of his magnates and leading churchmen . |
| 18 | Although the opposition has no experience of sheltering such a prominent figure underground , Mr Devaty 's move appears to have caught by surprise not only his friends , but the country 's creaky legal machinery , and it may be some time before his non-appearance prompts a full-scale police hunt for him . |
| 19 | Herons generally fish at dawn before the gardener has stirred and it may be some time before the pool-owner is aware that his fish are disappearing . |
| 20 | By its very nature , when delivered , bespoke software often contains errors and it may be some time before they can all be traced and corrected . |
| 21 | And it might be that infinity is a hundred amps , or |
| 22 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 23 | ‘ It 's true , and it might be some comfort to her , ’ John Foley said mildly . |
| 24 | If he did n't get away now , he 'd only be waylaid by the others , there 'd be more whiskies , and it would be all hours before he 'd get to his lodgings and the letter from Elizabeth . |
| 25 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 26 | On England 's next tour in 1985–6 , Guyana was carefully omitted from the itinerary , and it would be nine years before they returned — only for the Test to be washed out completely . |
| 27 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 28 | Lord Boyd-Carpenter said that criticism was unhappily ‘ not confined to the other side ’ and it would be many years before the scheme would bear fruit . |
| 29 | Inharmonious transitions were evidently far from rare , with not only violent arguments , but ‘ the young woman and the old woman slashing each other with tongs , the doors broke , and it would be two dwellings in one house ’ . |
| 30 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |