Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was gon na say , if they lose it 's I think a lot of it 'll be through the poll tax . |
| 2 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 3 | Although the Chronicle for Cnut 's reign is evidently something of a patchwork , much of it may be from an early date . |
| 4 | The only way to get rid of it would be for enough Tory MPs to join with the Opposition parties to throw it out . |
| 5 | While some of the revision work will probably be piecemeal , e.g. correcting definitions to which the editor 's attention had been drawn by other scholars or informants , quite a lot of it would be of the ‘ blanket ’ variety . |
| 6 | Cos then a lot of it will be on Scotland you know . |
| 7 | Erm we 'll we 'll go for a couple of social eve evenings but probably the bulk of it will be during the day the er Saturday and Sunday . |
| 8 | Some of the required information may be susceptible to precise description in numerical terms such as body size and strength , but most of it will be of the ‘ awareness ’ kind when the designer recognises broadly that particular kinds of people have particular advantages and limitations . |
| 9 | Well I think I might be able to sort that out a lot of it will be underneath your |
| 10 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 11 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
| 12 | Nothing is barred , except that your subject ( which is , note , not the same thing as your deeper theme ) should involve crime of some sort and that your presentation of it should be in a manner that will entertain , which is almost the same thing as saying it should be through a progressing story . |
| 13 | ‘ The heat is nothing like it will be during the summer , ’ Anna had warned that morning . |
| 14 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 15 | Well , this voucher scheme sounds like it could be worth the 12 quid alone … any chance you could fax me the application form Gavin ? |
| 16 | Then they felt that the most effective way of dealing with it would be for each main committee to look at the various aspects in detail , rather than take the and miss everything , best for each of the main committees to look in detail at each part . |
| 17 | Flexibility is bound to be required to take account , for example , of a sudden increase in a particular type of work , of a complex transaction of such importance that the partners dealing with it must be on constant standby , of parents wishing to be free during school holidays . |
| 18 | But the shattered gabbro of the Troodos ophiolite may well hold water , and information gained by drilling into it may be of great practical value on this semi-arid island . |
| 19 | Thus all land , however tied up it may be by complex entails and other interests , has since 1882 been alienable by the tenant for life under his statutory powers . |
| 20 | Lexical checking here has the advantage that knowledge about how letters may legally combine by position is represented succinctly , and that any output from it will be of real words . |
| 21 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 22 | Because the hot gas is pervasive , cooler gas embedded in it must be under the same high pressure . |
| 23 | I do n't know why , if he gets put on a murder case he 's there for three weeks in a hotel , it 's easy he said well I , you 'll be able to come over if you want to it 'll be like sitting at work , no one will know |
| 24 | Apparently he was getting a divorce , and Rosemary was already planning the wedding and her honeymoon trousseau — such as it would be in those days of strictly limited clothing coupons . |
| 25 | ‘ So that when this activity is called for it must be for a party of sixteen with the four chalets free to accommodate them . |
| 26 | If the world was a bathtub , the progress of the Ship through it would be like the soap , shooting backwards and forwards and never being where anyone was expecting it to be . |
| 27 | If Patterson struts his stuff he 'll request a rider from Airborne just before eleven , so if anything is coming through it should be before eleven-fifteen . ’ |
| 28 | Orange or red nut feeders are especially attractive to siskins , but if there are squirrels around it may be worth the extra expense of a tough model such as the Gilbert squirrel-proof feeder , which has a nut basket surrounded by a mesh which will only allow the birds through . |