Example sentences of "[noun] it [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those it failed to deter was a predatory heron which discovered that by activating the light it could purloin a splendid fish supper from among the transfixed koi carp in the garden pond below . |
| 2 | The award and the ceremony itself were instigated by the British Fashion Council , which tried every tactic it could -including the setting up of a smarter venue at The Duke of York 's Barracks -to persuade Katharine Hamnett to show in London . |
| 3 | You complain how seldom I attend you , and when you are always talking of matrimony or this low-born raw girl it must needs lessen the pleasure of approaching you . |
| 4 | Any moment it would buck , toss her , white broken heap , on to the gleaming floor . |
| 5 | But if they had twenty five percent it would gentlemen of the Conservative party to say , Listen , you 've got twenty five percent , go on , run the country . |
| 6 | So long as he speaks the truth it can t be folly — that 's what you 're going to say , is n't it ? |
| 7 | A National Guard , reporting directly to the President , was to be established immediately , in order to reduce the role of the army in riot control ; according to official sources it would number tens of thousands , and would incorporate the riot police . |
| 8 | Of course you should dose it should conditions be foggy . |
| 9 | Not possessing a BJ-10E , I ca n't comment on the kind of print quality it can church out using that driver , but TrueType , Windows ‘ built-in scalable font feature , should n't disappoint you . |
| 10 | So , normally the boiler will malfunction on the D6 roll of a 6 , but if the Steam Tank has sustained 1 wound it will malfunction on a 5 or 6 , if it has 2 wounds it goes wrong on a 4 , 5 or 6 and so on . |
| 11 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 12 | So having diffused to the endoplasmic reticulum it can gate open the calcium channel , and this leads to an elevation of internal calcium , not from the external medium now , but from internal stores . |
| 13 | I 've enjoyed having you here , and in a small way it will sort of thank David , make it up to him by having his granddaughter to stay . |
| 14 | By preventing ovulation it may ben suppress menstruation — a useful advantage , once the user has realized that it is not a sign of disastrous contraceptive failure . |
| 15 | Its difficulties have meant that while the CAB workload expands , the services it can offer have had to be cut . |
| 16 | There is no stimulus for the imagination and like any other muscle it can atrophy from lack of use . ’ |