Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thomas did n't look immediately cheered , but might relay some of that , Nicholas thought , where it would help matters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These rate CCG 's level of service , allowing the company to identify areas where it can make improvements . |
| 6 | Keep your front guard hand close to your face where it can give protection . |
| 7 | Normally groundwater supplies are of high quality and need little treatment , but the source of groundwater is rainfall that percolates through the soil , where it can dissolve substances , man-made or natural , beneficial or deleterious , present in the soil . |
| 8 | Does the Minister support British Rail 's policy of siting freight depots only where it can find developers to put money into facilities around the depot ? |
| 9 | Position it in the centre of the mantelpiece , stand it on a shelf on its own , shine a spotlight on to it , or hang it on an empty wall where it will attract attention . |
| 10 | Then it will start looking in C : \DOS , where it will find PRINT.EXE . |
| 11 | Apparently the hyperparasite infects only mistletoe and so V. loranthi can be safely introduced into new areas , where it will attack mistletoes without parasitising any other plants . |
| 12 | With a few possible exceptions , it is not worthwhile stocking up with other components in large numbers because it would either be too costly , or it would take years to use them all up . |
| 13 | She 'd have to give this … person … something or it would spoil Sam 's holiday — which was like saying it would spoil his entire year . |
| 14 | The final separation may mean an agony of divided loyalty for the children of the marriage or it may spell relief from intolerable tensions which have developed over a long period . |
| 15 | Or it may contain data such as an electricity meter reading . |
| 16 | Or it may give rise to a level of customer price-sensitivity which was hitherto absent in the target market segment . |
| 17 | When it strikes the surface it may either rebound , thus repeating its motion , or it may start saltation in another sand grain by impact . |
| 18 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |
| 19 | The company with the contract may spend the money , or part of it , at its plants in other States , or it may subcontract part of the work out-of-State . ) |
| 20 | The perchlorate ion can occur as isolated , undistorted ions , or as distorted but essentially unattached ions , loosely attached through one or two oxygen atoms to one or two metal ions , or it may take part in hydrogen bonding to water molecules in hydrated salts . |
| 21 | As we have already seen ( p. 21 ) , this may be quite clear , or it may require decisions to be made about who will be included and who will be omitted . |
| 22 | It may be divided within itself ; it may lose bye-elections , or it may lack resolution or competence . |
| 23 | It expects to be the first constituency in the country to declare a result , it may be the first Liberal Democrat gain , or it may elect Britain 's first black Tory MP . |
| 24 | The variation might help your reader understand you and your writing , or it might hinder understanding of what you write . |
| 25 | Or it might say hand wash only and the customer puts it in a washing machine . |
| 26 | or it will end tears ! |
| 27 | It can either tough it out , claiming virtue in its readiness to take hard decisions in the national interest ; or it can assemble safeguards and concessions and proclaim compassion for the neediest . |
| 28 | It can also lever its legs further off the ground , or it can climb vegetation to reduce thermal ground conductivity . |
| 29 | The group can be asked to respond to what one individual has just said ; or it can focus discussion on one individual at a time ; or the counsellor can ensure that the group discusses general or shared problems , or that it links and compares different problems faced by individuals within the group . |
| 30 | But Searle does not show why the computer would not do as well as the Westerner , in conditions where he or it can learn meanings . |