Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] would [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever fate now awaits him , the Friar-Tuck figure of Casey would find it physically hard to emulate the vicar . |
| 2 | Two home defeats have dented Boro 's hopes of automatic promotion , and Lawrence said : ‘ Failure to get three points against Oxford would make it almost impossible to make the top two . |
| 3 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 4 | The narrator dreams of how Charlie 's tales of his reincarnations will be spread , as ‘ the finest story in the world ’ until the point when , ‘ Every Orientalist in Europe would patronize it discursively with Sanskrit and Pali texts . ’ |
| 5 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |