Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the scrubby ground past the Nissen huts runs a main road , with a bus service to Stonehaven on the A94 , where it would again pick up the A92 . |
| 2 | Satellites should detect small irregularities in the gas , where it would eventually form into galaxies . |
| 3 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 4 | The Mail had a regular page for women which would not be out of place in an English daily , where it may well have originated : |
| 5 | A septic tank is an open system and depends on being sited where it can eventually discharge into a natural watercourse or soakaway . |
| 6 | It will be making early morning visits to the boulder beaches and broken cliffs where it will later lay its two large spotted eggs well out of sight in some crevice . |
| 7 | On the personal computer front , ICL says it intends to progress relationships with the world 's top 50 PC software suppliers to an extent where it will effectively house a PC software distribution business in its stable , and will be able to offer almost any PC solution to customers . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've selected a midfield umbrella to protect him with players and said , ‘ look , this is your stage — now go and do it where it will really hurt the opposition ’ . |
| 9 | When the radio is switched on , this voltage , stored on C1 , is temporarily let loose on the circuitry , where it could conceivably do some damage . |
| 10 | This base can be the rear seat rail , or another rail fitted above the seat , but if so , no more than 2in above the seat or it would also need to be curved to avoid discomfort . |
| 11 | or it would just melt . |
| 12 | However , the grammatical score assigned to a word should be independent of it 's own LPF ( or it would merely serve to reinforce the pattern recogniser 's decision ) but it should be influenced by the LPFs of words in neighbouring positions . |
| 13 | Hannah Hauxwell 's somewhat late introduction to the benefits of modern civilization , such as water that arrived at the turn of a tap , central heating , shops just a few yards away , even a telephone ( the number is ex-directory or it would never stop ) , clearly created a revolution in her life Her financial situation also improved dramatically with a tidy amount left from the sale of Low Birk Hatt to invest , and substantial sums from the royalties of her best-selling book . |
| 14 | It 's an ex-directory number or it would never rest |
| 15 | By 1989 fund-raising and the general economy were at such a position that a ‘ Go ’ decision was either to be made , or it would never happen . |
| 16 | The organization hiring the programmer or consultant may want to own the copyright so that it can exploit the resultant program itself , or it may simply want to prevent its competitors from obtaining a copy of it . |
| 17 | It can refer to the growth of influence of the natural and social sciences as bodies of knowledge which underpin practice in fields such as medicine , pharmacy , agriculture , engineering , architecture or social work ; it can refer to the increased importance of mathematics or computing in some fields ; it can refer to the attempt to develop models or theories of practice itself , for example in the fields of management , nursing or teaching , or it may simply reflect the enlargement of the off-the-job element in professional education . |
| 18 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
| 19 | Or it may simply have been that he was hiding : that his confused sexuality could at any time have brought him down . |
| 20 | In summary , Collins have pulled out of participation in the National Corpus Project and Longman have given a commitment to participate in the National Corpus Project , which leaves us having submitted a proposal a revised proposal to the D T I , erm fully documenting Longman 's contribution , erm but leaving O U P's role and financial contribution to the project open in anticipation that there is likely to be some rearrangements amongst the industrial partners , that is there may be a reallocation of funding between Longman and O U P and maybe the addition of new partners erm or it may just stay as it is erm . |
| 21 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 22 | And it will go either it will come up to the surface itself or it 'll just disappear . |
| 23 | I never expected them to , I 'll tell you the truth , but then again at that age you do n't think they ever will or it 'll ever happen to you do you ? |
| 24 | You must n't use modern things on them or it 'll really wrock them irreparably and you 've done four thousand pounds worth of damage before you know it . |
| 25 | Private firms , by contrast , might find their existing workforce too small to pay for its existing pensioners or it might even go bankrupt . |
| 26 | It might be ready for opening , or it might just have dissolved away itself . |
| 27 | You might just love it , or it might just drive you mad . |
| 28 | In fact some City professionals are saying that the licensed dealer should be a protected species , or it will shortly become extinct . |
| 29 | Do not make the concrete too sloppy , or it will simply slide down the earth steps and force its way out at the bottom tread . |
| 30 | Be very careful not to spill any water into the flour or it will soon become mouldy . |