Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belief , in this sense , facilitates a more abstract acceptance of conformity ; it leads us to conform in the absence of immediate personal advantage from doing so ( or even where it would be to our advantage not to do so ) . |
| 2 | Another aspect of the rights of the pupil in relation to his record is his right to have the record disclosed where it will be to his benefit and to prevent disclosure elsewhere . |
| 3 | While she has /r/ in person where it should be in JC , she has pronounced /r/ at the end of mother , where Jamaicans usually do not pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where historically it is absent : in this last case displaying the type of hypercorrection for which John F. Kennedy ( a speaker of the r-less Boston English ) was famous . |
| 4 | They may be able to order bricks of a particular type if they do n't have them in stock , or it may be worth investigating whether second-hand bricks are available from demolition contractors in your area . |
| 5 | Or it may be for rule breach , such as a late delivery under the LIFFE Bund contract . |
| 6 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |
| 7 | Graphic output may be in standard form , a partition ( zoomed-in ) or extrapolated ( zoomed-out ) graph , or it may be of residuals alone . |
| 8 | This picture may be in monochrome , or it may be in colour if your machine is fitted with one of the new miniature LCD screens . |
| 9 | Or it might be by indirection , as in 131 with its apologia : ‘ In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds . ’ |
| 10 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |
| 11 | Or it could be for daddy if he wanted it |
| 12 | Endotoxin from different organisms although it may be of of different potency has essentially the same biological effects . |
| 13 | It acts to foster rather than hinder the material and non-material interests of most groups involved in the planning process , although it may be to the short term tactical advantage of some not to recognise the fact . |
| 14 | The fact that some providers , including NHS trusts , have run out of money is not solely a problem of inefficiency or poor resource management ( although it may be in some cases ) ; it is also a reflection of the diversity and complexity of the demand for health care , which makes it so unpredictable . |
| 15 | Any 8-bit microprocessor will work , since no multiplication or division is necessary in the software , although it would be of advantage to use a 16-bit device to do the scaling of signals internally . |
| 16 | Accordingly , if the nature of the privilege going beyond the Bill of Rights had been identified , your Lordships could have determined whether or not such privilege exists , although it would be for the House of Commons to determine whether or not there was an infringement of any privilege found to exist . |
| 17 | Thursday 's performance at Darlington Arts Centre is sold out , although it might be worth checking with the box office ( ) for returns . |
| 18 | No one knew it — although it must be on her medical records somewhere . |
| 19 | Of course I realise that the fallacy is so crude that it would be below the dignity of any academic economist to soil himself with such much . |
| 20 | When Nenna was not in the witness box , she sometimes saw herself getting ready for an inspection at which Edward , or Edward 's mother , or some power superior to either , gave warning that they might appear — she could only hope that it would be on a falling tide — to see where she could be found wanting . |
| 21 | On January 22nd Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve , suggested that it would be at the low end of that range largely because much of the equipment being used would not be replaced . |
| 22 | Last week , John Wright , another CEGB witness , warned that it would be at least another decade before the board would be able to assess the potential of renewable and alternative energy sources . |
| 23 | Not that it would be at all necessary , she reassured herself as she felt a sudden burst of fright . |
| 24 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 25 | There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists . |
| 26 | This may not be hard news in the sense that it would be of interest to the news desk of the daily newspapers , but it must have something to interest a specific readership . |
| 27 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 28 | But then , as Blackstone pointed out , the opinion gained ground that it would be to the advantage of trade , and of creditors in general , if debtors outside the scope of the bankruptcy laws who were on the point of insolvency could also surrender their property for the benefit of their creditors , and in return be protected from legal process . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that it would be to the advantage of school children if they could find out what happens in the countryside . |
| 30 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |