Example sentences of "[adj] it [modal v] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 2 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 3 | It is tempting to suppose , however , that if homoeopathy were not efficacious it would scarcely have survived for so long , since it would be expected that doctors would cease to practise it or patients to demand it . |
| 4 | I 'm sure it wo n't have escaped your notice that you do the same thing when you want to run a DOS command , like DIR , COPY , CLS and so on . |
| 5 | But how often does a duck need to peek to be fairly sure it wo n't get caught ? |
| 6 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |