Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 2 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 3 | On Jan. 25 Kuwait announced that it would also contribute $13,500 million to help defray US costs . |
| 4 | The only opposition party in Bophuthatswana , the National Seoposongwe Party , announced that it would soon become part of the ANC . |
| 5 | On Feb. 6 Japan , apparently responding to GFCCG appeals , announced that it would shortly provide Egypt , Jordan and Turkey with more than $1,030 million in low-interest loans [ see p. 38010 ] . |
| 6 | David Trippier , the Environment Minister , announced that it would eventually comprise 24 terrestrial research centres and 24 marine and aquatic centres . |
| 7 | At Esprit ‘ 92 — an exhibition of European Commission-funded information technology projects in Brussels last week — ICL plc revealed that it will indeed use Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's 64-bit HyperSparc microprocessor for its SQL parallel database server engine ( UX No 410 ) . |
| 8 | He termed this new pattern of systematized organization ‘ bureaucracy ’ , and argued that it must progressively supplant all rival systems of administration in a modern society because of its technical superiority in tackling problems and marshalling large-scale activity in a purposeful way . |
| 9 | She stipulated that it must never have been involved in an accident . |
| 10 | But being watch 'd that it may still go right ! |
| 11 | Do you do you think erm your father when he started the shop in twenty six , would ever imagined that it could possibly go on to the the end of the century ? |
| 12 | At the conclusion of the hearing the Board intimated that it would humbly advise Her Majesty that the appeal should be dismissed , for reasons which it would subsequently deliver . |
| 13 | The portrait , he thought , must have been even more powerful than he realized if it could so dominate his physical reaction to the living woman . |
| 14 | It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track . |
| 15 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 16 | The decision followed a parliamentary vote in March [ see p. 38843 ] ; the proposed dam had attracted strong criticism from environmentalists , who claimed that it would adversely affect the water supply and destroy valuable wetlands . |
| 17 | No further progress was made on Jan. 31 , 1990 , and the North indicated that it would only attend a meeting set for March 7 if the Team Spirit exercises were called off . |
| 18 | On nights like this all Fontanellato was out , defying the curfew , and we all prayed that it would soon end and prayed for the people who lived there . |
| 19 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 20 | After the model had been repaired , Watt discovered that it would only work for a few stroked and then stop . |
| 21 | I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated . |
| 22 | Tamar , Lady Lassiter 's life was tidy and secure once again and she determined that it would now remain so . |
| 23 | At this stage , given the scale of the fighting , EC members were divided over whether the peace conference could go ahead , and Germany warned that it would unilaterally grant formal recognition to Croatia and Slovenia ( both of which had declared independence on June 25 ) if fighting persisted . |
| 24 | The angle of the glacier meant that it could only hover , one ski touching the slope . |
| 25 | For that reason alone , the Communist party saw that it must either stop Mosley now or else perhaps lose all chance of a populist vote in its own support . |
| 26 | The translator could have used the feminine form of the verb , but s/he possibly felt that it would also have been marked or that it might have unnecessarily excluded potential male users . |
| 27 | It was this sort of in-between authority that he could not tolerate as he felt that it would only increase the existing element of confusion . |
| 28 | I thought that it would soon pass , and it did — for you to work harder still . |
| 29 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 30 | MacDonald thought that it would further alarm the public if he cancelled his journey . |