Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [conj] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 2 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 3 | With Skinny Puppy signed to a major , it looks like they could soon break out of the cult ghetto . |
| 4 | Because to me Danny Blanchflower , we lost England 's number one , now we 've lost Ireland 's number one , and it looks like we could even lose John , before long , of a similar type of er illness . |
| 5 | It looks like I 'll never live that fiasco down . ) |
| 6 | Though the group believes Britain should join , it warns that it should only do so at an exchange rate of around DM2.40 to the pound — involving a 15 per cent devaluation from the current DM2.79 . |
| 7 | Though the group believes Britain should join , it warns that it should only do so at an exchange rate of around DM2.40 to the pound — involving a 15 per cent devaluation from the current DM2.79 . |
| 8 | It states that they will even undertake not to influence their national central banks , which means rule by bankers . |
| 9 | First , it ensures that you can still utilise the database without retrieving BLOBs and suffer no loss of speed in your application because of the presence of BLOBs within records . |
| 10 | In the faintest of whispers the parents try to give comfort , try to quieten : for a moment it seems that they might even have to stifle . |
| 11 | SunSelect does n't want to define exactly what integrate ( its word ) means or how tightly bound over time the products will become , but it seems that they will still be two separate things . |
| 12 | One path to go down might begin from the priority the Council had given to its knowledge of the particular institutions : ‘ it seems that we should now begin to build even more positively on this and consider a move in which certain institutions were granted particular responsibilities … the academic board in an experienced institution engaging in work of high quality should be authorized by the Council to reach decisions in defined areas ’ , and within understood frameworks of report and action . |
| 13 | It seems that we must similarly accept the quoted 3,000 poisoning deaths and 100,000 hospitalizations per year from barbiturate overdose , because the industry contributes £168 million each year in exports … |
| 14 | While it seems that there may often be only one candidate , especially for longer words , there will be more than one on a significant number of occasions . |
| 15 | But if all we can do , in our attempts to specify the meaning of a non-observation statement , is to state some implications of that statement at the observational level , it seems that there will always be some aspects of that statement 's meaning which will escape us and remain unspecified . |
| 16 | Well , in that we 're , I 'm just , I 'm just bringing up a point that yes he , he , it seems that he could well say something like well , the cow herder or the shepherd down the road has got as much of the right as anybody else . |
| 17 | If I am right about what the fluke genes are doing , it follows that we can legitimately speak of fluke genes as influencing snail bodies , in just the same sense as snail genes influence snail bodies . |
| 18 | It follows that there will only be one level of national income at which aggregate demand is equal to the total value of production . |
| 19 | When we identify such a structure , then it means that we can successfully explain our observations in terms of concepts that we genuinely understand already . |
| 20 | So I said erm if we say increase to five pounds now , they do n't have to , but it means that they 'll probably have a significant unit holding , you know , to compensate them . |
| 21 | This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again . |
| 22 | They 're not actually prepared to go in to diagnosing dementia which I think is very wise of them but it means that you could then get into a very interesting discussion about whether we 're talking about people with dementia or about people who are simply confused . |
| 23 | Chris disapproves strongly of artificial methods of rearing , even if it means that he may only get one or two fry from a brood . |
| 24 | It does but it might also do the gas might do something else as well . |
| 25 | It maintains that they can only benefit if it secures the return to Turkey of the so-called Lydian hoard : Lydian , Archaemenid Persian and other Anatolian artefacts dating back to 600–500 BC which , it contends , were looted in 1960–66 from tombs in the Ushak region of Turkey . |
| 26 | Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it . |
| 27 | Erm it suggests that you should never appoint a solicitor or a bank for the reasons of cost . |