Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 2 | Well Digital Equipment Corp always said it would catch up with IBM Corp , come what may , and the company has just about done it : IBM 's loss for 1991 was $2,827m and DEC 's loss for the year $2,780m . |
| 3 | And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting . |
| 4 | Authority chief executive Brian Jones , and FHSA chief executive Christopher Last both warned it could prove costly . |
| 5 | DEC also said it would provide R4000-based daughter cards to upgrade existing R3000 DECstations and DECsystems , but would give no indication as to whether it would proceed with MIPS beyond the R4000 , or concentrate on Alpha . |
| 6 | BSkyB yesterday announced it will screen live 40 US PGA tournaments on the Sky Sports channel next year . |
| 7 | The corporation also said it would consult with the local residents about the operation and regretted not having approached them before the work began . |
| 8 | BR then said it would cost £2½ million to repair . |
| 9 | A miners ' union yesterday said it would call an all-out , open-ended strike if Mr Yeltsin were impeached . |
| 10 | FRANCE yesterday said it would plan for possible European Community retaliation against Washington if the US imposed its threatened tariffs on some European luxury products . |
| 11 | The PTT also boasted it would install 20 000 kilometres of optical fibre in Biarritz . |
| 12 | America 's federal government recently said it will rely far more on short-term debt to fund its huge deficit than it did in the past . |
| 13 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 14 | In a surprise move , Whitbread also said it would halt its development of Pizza Hut in France , Belgium and Holland . |
| 15 | Miss Worthington often felt it would have been an unendurable sorrow to her parents if they had lived to witness the extent of the deterioration . |
| 16 | Rosemary Burns never thought it would happen to her . |
| 17 | Is it because both teacher and students secretly thought it would make the learning painless , automatic and work-free ? |
| 18 | The Cincinnati , Ohio company originally said it would convert its software to run on HP 9000 Series 8000 machines under HP-UX Unix and that Hewlett-Packard Co had signed a joint development and marketing agreement . |
| 19 | The Cincinnati , Ohio company originally said it would convert its software to run on HP 9000 Series 8000 machines under HP-UX Unix and that Hewlett-Packard Co had signed a joint development and marketing agreement . |
| 20 | The pair are particularly proud of their accomplishment in light of the fact they are using standard interfaces , standard application programming interfaces and a garden variety Sbus , not the proprietary gear SGI reportedly claimed it would take to achieve the kind of performance they say they have . |