Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s . |
| 2 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 3 | The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved . |
| 4 | A funny creation , it 's probably best to read it first before you change your life , as all it may signpost is another batch of second-rate lifestyle articles . |
| 5 | IF the BBC wants to secure its future the first thing it should do is cut down on the huge fees it pays to presenters . |
| 6 | What it should do is to stop issuing patents for plants and animals and await the outcome of proper international debate . |
| 7 | Whether it should breed is another matter . |
| 8 | It is now recognised that the costing of community-based care to take account of the wider back-up services on which it must depend is a complicated calculation which was not available with any degree of sophistication at the height of the movement away from institutional care ( Knapp , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Accordingly , in many fields , the conventional idea of a disinterested researcher having his or her own idiosyncratic interest and pursuing it wherever it might lead is a matter of history . |
| 10 | erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong . |
| 11 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
| 12 | But the damage it could do is spurring the Gulf states into unprecedented efforts to protect their shallow , near-landlocked waters . |
| 13 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 14 | Spotting a store that is not selling as much as it could sell is easy . |
| 15 | The most obvious example of the significance it could have is Frederick II 's invasion of Saxony in August 1756 . |
| 16 | A question it could ask is what would be wrong with letting a market instead of a clique of investment banks determine a share 's correct price . |
| 17 | It does n't matter a whole lot , I mean because the er , all it would show is that metaphors need n't take the form of constituents in sentences . |
| 18 | What it would mean is that we would consider it immoral to treat animals as if they had no intrinsic value , as if they were of instrumental value only , merely means to human ends . |
| 19 | The only way it would matter is that somebody breathes the information to , if they could get hold of a card , and get into an office , they could actually use the information to make a payment . |
| 20 | All it would do is slow down the rate of change . |
| 21 | What it would do is close our collieries , place this country at the mercy of international coal traders , and give Britain an added trade deficit of about £900 million per annum , for a hypothetical saving of just over £1.25 per week for the average household . |
| 22 | The second point being that erm if a figure was to be identified for Greater York , we 'd feel that this would er unduly interfere with our duties and responsibilities as a District Council to allocate land in our district , cos in effect what it would do is direct us to making a housing allocation in one particular settlement , Shipton , we feel that 's our responsibility not the County Council . |
| 23 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the news-stands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 24 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the newsstands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 25 | What it would require is a reassessment of certain aspects of our criminal procedure . |
| 26 | One problem it would address is the proportion of grants — as much as 10 per cent — that are lost to currency conversions because French research institutes can not hold foreign currencies . |
| 27 | A central part of methods it would seem is tacit knowledge , developed and shared by those who work together but resting unformulated and thus unavailable to those without personal contact . |
| 28 | ‘ Which it would seem is more than could be said for your father 's . ’ |
| 29 | Whether it is an appropriate concept and whether it would work is , of course , a matter for debate . |
| 30 | Bricknell says that Cefic has responded to the suggestion of such a tax by saying that all it will do is reduce the industry 's ability to spend money on new plants and technology . |