Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] it [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 If a single marked cell from the inner cell mass of one mouse embryo is injected into the inner cell mass of another it will become integrated into the development of the embryo and respond to developmental signals .
2 If we 'd have started off with this it would have given us twice what we got .
3 The twelve-hour shift pattern was also an obstacle to change in that it would have made it difficult to recruit new staff for hospital development .
4 The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " .
5 In 1935 it might have seemed as if Hollywood was moving into a period of labour and political films but such was not the case .
6 ‘ Grenville 's manor belonged to Edward Grenville of Wotton Underwood , and was worth £10 to him ; in 1606 it may have comprised a house and 89 acres .
7 Applied in the South-East region in 1974 it would have encountered no difficulty .
8 But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home .
9 To another it might have seemed utter confusion , but Chen had been born here .
10 Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing .
11 By this it will have come to your lordship 's ears what little success my attempt to put forward your terms for negotiation achieved in the council .
12 By 2000 it will have passed both France and Britain , and will be nosing up on the real geriatrics , Germany and Sweden .
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