Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may dissolve away itself ? |
| 2 | It may explain why he is making such a mess of the job . |
| 3 | Although it may fill both our physical and mental viewing frames , we remain detached from it and have not entered the cluster . |
| 4 | Though it may look easy there is a right way to walk , to sit , to turn , to remove a coat . ’ |
| 5 | Together these give the Convention its terms of reference and some guidance as to how it should set about its task . |
| 6 | • The Japanese motoring industry is meanwhile considering if it should slow down its expansion into the luxury car market , due to the Gulf crisis hitting fuel prices . |
| 7 | As far as the authority of the board is concerned , it must carry out its functions according to the powers conferred upon it by the company 's articles . |
| 8 | Greg 's mind played on Viola 's concern with keeping the record ‘ straight ’ , meaning that it must tell only her version . |
| 9 | Not a bad idea , but if the British Wild Boar Association , already bristling with problems , is to combat that threat it must sort out its standards . |
| 10 | So if Luke had contracted the same strain it might explain why he could n't phone her — |
| 11 | It might explain why she had gone to No. 22 later that night . |
| 12 | If Lexy was another like her it might explain why she was willing to accept such cavalier treatment . |
| 13 | At last she stepped over it and went down , half thinking it might snap off her leg in passing . |
| 14 | Unlike the problems which surround retirement from work , the loss of the parental role has not been widely discussed as a social issue , and certainly not in terms of the problems and difficulties it might bring in its wake . |
| 15 | I , I , I mean I do think that w what we would have to do is , is if people started making inroads into two via this route , it might mean then we 'd get to the point where it was n't going to cost that much more to enable other scale one people |
| 16 | It might signify hardly anything at all . |
| 17 | The more they talked , the more it might damp down his surprising sexual interest . |
| 18 | Tim otherwise it 'll go everywhere you see . |
| 19 | Virtually it 'll change now he 's coming out . |
| 20 | Only seven positions will be lost in the UK , and the 235-strong Bristol-based operation says it 'll break out its year-end figures from overall Dun & Bradstreet Software numbers for the first time on December 11 . |
| 21 | So you simply do that , and when it pivots about C , halfway will look like that , then it 'll come back what it started off at . |
| 22 | It also seems to be so wide in scope that it could encompass almost anything . |
| 23 | If so , it could explain why he had waited so long for her , and why , now they had met again , he was handling their relationship so very carefully . |
| 24 | It could go down one could n't it ? |
| 25 | She had done better than that and taken it to a jeweller to be plated and put into a mount so it could hang on her chain . |
| 26 | At first , as he worked , he had reminisced pleasantly to himself about the smells and the texture of paper and ink , and about the pleasure of opening a new roll of papyrus , laid out as far as there was need on soft leather spread over a wooden writing desk ; then mixing the ink powder with water , and the nervous moment of dipping the brush to make the first signs — to load the brush just so , in order that the ink would be absorbed by the paper before it could run down it . |
| 27 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 28 | If this were the case it would explain why they had not held meetings on this occasion . |
| 29 | This is quite a long way down for coins of this period and it would explain why I was n't finding anything earlier . |
| 30 | The NPA declared that it would step up its insurgency and launch attacks " without prejudice to all relief and rehabilitation efforts " . |