Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored .
2 It may pay to be early at Catford where Dromina Duke looks the part in the second race .
3 However , if the unit is to be sited some considerable distance from the water supply , it may need to be thicker to prevent excessive voltage drop — loudspeaker wire , for example .
4 It may need to be tailor-made , and therefore it 's best left to the experts .
5 Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements .
6 It may prove to be restrictive unless used very flexibly .
7 In the average home sized aquarium it may prove to be necessary to isolate a particularly large specimen as the risk of losing other fish from predation and poor water quality will be high .
8 He advises that while the unit backs onto our store , as a self-contained unit , it should continue to be available for let on the open market .
9 There is every reason why it should continue to be pleasurable and satisfying for both husband and wife for the rest of their married life .
10 Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo .
11 Where the branch manufactures a product ( such as a car ) the standards it must comply with are those of the host member state ; conversely , where it sells a product made in its home member state the manufacturing standards of the home member state are normally the relevant ones , although the rules of the host member state would apply to its advertising in that state provided that they are justified as being for the public good .
12 The relational perspective simply explores the social features of any knowledge process , regardless of any claims it might make to be independent of social determination .
13 It was a bold experiment that is almost certain to be rewarded with full houses and , as the acoustics are to be softened , by tonight 's performance it might prove to be one of the better stagings .
14 He hoped — just hoped — it might prove to be conclusive .
15 It 'll 'ave to be good , so do n't come up with something like us all bein' knocked down by a herd of stampedin' giraffes . ’
16 then it 'll have to be dripped-dried
17 It 'll have to be dark .
18 So it 'll have to be that one in there .
19 So it 'll have to be all super-duper !
20 It 'll have to be one of the bedrooms , I 'm afraid . ’
21 I 'd like to put one simple note and I think it 'll have to be simple for him to understand it but I would like to put one simple notion to him and that is that there is great merit in having public services sharing by people from all social classes .
22 It 'll have to be green .
23 It 'll have to be brief , ’ George said dryly .
24 Actually , I I want , do n't know whether you want interested in coming , I 'm not sure whether I wan na go , but either next week , it 'll have to be next week , 'cos I think after I wo n't be here , I 'm going home .
25 I 'd planned on taking you to Malvern to meet my family , but , it 'll have to be another day .
26 It 'll get to be second nature , do n't worry .
27 It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique .
28 It 'd have to be this evening , I 'm afraid .
29 ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone .
30 It would appear to be due to the strength of these preferences that prime borrowers have frequently been able to raise funds more cheaply by making a eurosterling rather than a domestic issue .
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