Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may even bee seen on the coast as it prepares for migration to its winter quarters in central Africa . |
| 2 | It may then resort to thieving , or whining every time you eat , because it is disturbed with the uncertainty of its own feeding arrangements . |
| 3 | Er it may indeed deed have to change to change its mind if if a future planning enquiry er |
| 4 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 5 | As for his arm , she decided , it could just fester and drop off as far as she was concerned . |
| 6 | He was accustomed to conventional envy from some of his contemporaries ( although it could still distress him — Joseph Chiari recalls him leaving a party in Edinburgh because of the atmosphere of jealousy which he sensed there ) . |
| 7 | Anyway , it 'd probably bum through the harness . ’ |
| 8 | Well no it ca n't Angela ask him somebody ask him , he ca n't just arrive and start doing things . |
| 9 | Collectivism would eventually lead to totalitarianism — fascism and communism are collectivist ideologies — but it would also surface in the bureaucratic thinking of Western governments and multinational corporations . |
| 10 | No it would n't Iris . |
| 11 | She would never mock it , he was certain of that , and he could not believe that she would be shocked , because she was far too experienced and sensible to waste energy on such a useless emotion ; but it would probably distress her , and she had enough distress to absorb without his adding to it . |
| 12 | For a brief moment it seemed that the rain still hesitated , that it would only patter dispiritedly on the dust-filled gutters where its drops rolled like quick-silver . |
| 13 | It would be unrealistic to suggest that a good organic diet , daily meditation and aromatherapy massage is the answer to life 's problems , and that it will somehow cocoon us in an etheric pink haze for the rest of our days ! |
| 14 | Right you then get your baby , you 'll see the midwives doing this , you stabilize the baby pelvis , because otherwise it will just sort of go all over the place wo n't it , and this doll is , is fairly fixed , it 's not a very soft thing like a baby and you , with your hand you put your finger which is about the same length as the baby 's finger is n't it ? |
| 15 | Erm , it 's quite clear from the district auditor 's letter that he thinks that we 're not being systematic enough , about what we do about environmental improvements , and it seems fairly clear to me to , that if we just push the to the service committees , erm , nothing will ever happen , except possibly on planning , and that erm , it will just sort of quietly disappear because it 's not the top priority of any of the other service committees . |
| 16 | ‘ It will not advantage the lower paid workers in a free collective bargaining situation if those who are the strongest get the most . ’ |
| 17 | The Cats Protection League has also said it will not rehouse cats in Darlington 's Skerne Park and Firth Moor estates as well as the Woodhouse Close estate in Bishop Auckland . |
| 18 | It will not elbow anything else out of the way . |
| 19 | It will normally product output to floppy disk ( either 5¼″ or 3½″ ) , but it can also be connected to a DOS LAN or to a host computer via a serial interface at extra cost . |
| 20 | A rise-and-fall fitting ensures it will bc right . |
| 21 | Well it wo n't text will it ? |
| 22 | It wo n't mummy . |
| 23 | The two companies aim to jointly develop wireless networking technology for Sun 's future nomadic computing strategy — something it wo n't flesh out with much detail at this stage . |
| 24 | Thus it can not institute an action in the courts … |
| 25 | Moving to the capital market constraints , the takeover constraint is more or less unique to public liability companies though even then it can not impact strongly on the very largest companies . |
| 26 | As Pollitt notes ( 1986a , p. 165 ) ‘ a government can force its employees to go through the motions , but it can not mandate enthusiasm and commitment ’ . |