Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may snap off from the arm |
| 2 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 3 | That way it may get out of the bat 's flight path before it enters the detection range . |
| 4 | Of course if such an appeal is in effect a way of jettisoning the unexplained clause and opening the door to an explanation in terms of some other theory — say , a theory of relations — then it may turn out in the end to have been a step forward , but no credit can be claimed for the step until a reasonably clear , comprehensive , and persuasive account of the alternative theory has been presented . |
| 5 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 6 | If a Labour government ca n't get the devaluation it wants , it should pull out of the ERM . |
| 7 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 8 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 9 | But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days . |
| 10 | Gripping and polished — it should clean up at the box office this autumn . |
| 11 | ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far . |
| 12 | It must reach up beyond the walls of that particular yard within which a child is brought up . |
| 13 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 14 | If this is what we hear inside with the canopies sealed , God knows how it must sound out on the tarmac ! |
| 15 | The Board of Customs & Excise has also indicated ‘ some pleasure ’ at the proposals and the IITP is optimistic that it might end up as the internal examining body for the department . |
| 16 | On the other it might end up with the negative attitudes about dementia and care for dementia sufferers attaching to the segregated units . " |
| 17 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 18 | He says it 'll go back to the Conservatives at the next election . |
| 19 | Erm only part of it will burn and it 'll go out through the exhaust , the |
| 20 | DEC says it 'll go along with the Open Software Foundation 's choice symmetric multiprocessing technology and expects it to be delivered a new release early next year . |
| 21 | Seventeen and four it is , you owe me one and threepence halfpenny , and it 'll go down in the book . |
| 22 | So , if it 's really going to cost me fifty pound the cubic metre to pour concrete and happen to have forty pound the cubic metre , then it 'll show up in the plan that mm , I 'm not doing to well here , because there was n't a big enough allowance . |
| 23 | So it 'll come up at the next C S N T . |
| 24 | It 'll come down to the same thing . ’ |
| 25 | No , it 'll come out of the bank yes . |
| 26 | If there is a tunnel , then I reckon it 'll come out in the woods somewhere to the north of the fence an' close to it . |
| 27 | It 'll come out in the wash I guess ! |
| 28 | We can only pray and hope it 'll turn out for the best . ’ |
| 29 | Kenneth Baker indicated recently that he thinks such a plan should go ahead ; if he can persuade his government colleagues that the scheme could make a real contribution to economic growth it could start up by the Spring . |
| 30 | But it could end up as the only game in town . ’ |