Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when the swing is slightly out of tune , the really good golfer has such good feel for the ball and where it ought to go that he can produce a respectable shot most of the time . |
| 2 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 3 | Where it would involve upsetting the rights of an innocent third party , e.g. if the purchaser has sold the goods to an innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 4 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that France was to send an official military " observation unit " to the north of the country , where it would patrol and prevent infiltration across the international border . |
| 5 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 6 | Every division of the army had a prearranged town or village where it would gather and wait for further orders . |
| 7 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 8 | It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes . |
| 9 | Transfer may be justified in the child 's interests , for example , where it would enable the case to be heard in a court closer to the child 's home . |
| 10 | This discourages mounting adhesive from oozing on to the lower surface of the preparation , where it would affect attachment on the lapping machine 's vacuum chucks . |
| 11 | It broke in the tabloids first , where it would do the most damage . |
| 12 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 13 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 14 | The chief officer pointed out : ‘ In circumstances where it would prove uneconomic to apply the full rigours of building regulations , it is reasonable for the council to grant relaxations . ’ |
| 15 | Today this detached attitude to learning is being questioned even in subjects like science where it would seem to be most at home . |
| 16 | Instead , the new provisions will operate only until passage of a draft law on strikes , which itself bans such industrial action where it would endanger ‘ lives and health ’ . |
| 17 | He did not eat it but put it in his pocket , where it would lie forgotten for months . |
| 18 | One will enable employers to take the union to court , where it would risk losing its immunities , if it fails to repudiate the action . |
| 19 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 20 | Mind you , this is not quite as unsatisfactory as the ‘ Piano Quartet ’ set where it would have been just possible to confine Op. 26 and Op. 60 to the second disc , rather than breaking after the magical slow movement of the earlier of these two works . |
| 21 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 22 | As a result , there is also concern that the provisions of the Act are failing to provide adequate safeguards against excessive caution on the part of some magistrates who may be tempted to refuse bail even where it would have been safe and proper to grant it . |
| 23 | Thomas did n't look immediately cheered , but might relay some of that , Nicholas thought , where it would help matters . |
| 24 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 25 | I would be fed into the police computer , where it would join the details already stored by the hundreds of other crossings we had made . |
| 26 | Even those who have entered a deeply religious life where it may appear that they are hiding themselves away from close contact with others have in fact formed a deep and spiritual relationship with their god . |
| 27 | Self-cutting is sometimes a problem in inpatient psychiatric units , especially those catering for adolescents , where it may occur in an epidemic fashion ( Simpson 1975 ; Walsh and Rosen 1985 ) . |
| 28 | In addition there will be tax advantages where it may prove possible , for example , for the sub-contractor to offset against income tax telephone charges , rates , heating and lighting , car or van expenses and the payment , say , to a member of the family for the preparation of accounts . |
| 29 | Potential targets for arachidonic acid include not only the presynaptic terminal , where it may act to increase L-glutamate release , but also glial cells where it depresses L-glutamate uptake and the postsynaptic cell , where , for example , it can potentiate NMDA receptor-mediated currents . |
| 30 | It is able to recycle material which is now being expensively destroyed in incinerators or dumped into the sea , where it may act as a source of marine pollution . |