Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was remarkable , and commendable , was that once the tragedy had begun , quicker than anybody else in Germany , the Crown Prince realised where it would lead . |
| 2 | Fast free kicks are ok ( as along as the ball is stopped I think ) what was very illegal was the fact that the free kick was taken from a COMPLETELY different spot to where the foul took place , so the Leeds player were ( justifiably ) waiting for the ball to be placed where it should have been . |
| 3 | Among other things , Christopher said Western assistance must be better co-ordinated and targeted where it can have the greatest impact . |
| 4 | Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield . |
| 5 | Just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 6 | er just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 7 | From the ascription on the first page of H400D , Te Deum Simple Le feu Roy ayant voulu qu'il ne dura guere plus que sa messe ordinaire ( ‘ Simple Te Deum , the late King having wished that it will last little more than his usual mass ’ ) , we can deduce that this score , or at least this inscription , must be dated between the death of Louis XIV in September 1715 , and that of the composer , in June 1726 . |
| 8 | Has he seen its estimates , which suggest that it would increase business costs by an extra £50 million and cut 150,000 jobs ? |
| 9 | Most experts are hard pushed to explain why normal , healthy people should not take E. Some suggest that it may promote Parkinson 's disease — after all , the symptoms are fairly similar : short-term memory loss , the shakes , jaw-ache and constant chewing . |
| 10 | The controversy over Dow Corning 's role in introducing silicone breast implants increased in January when some US newspapers , including the Wall Street Journal , published summaries of internal documents and claimed that they suggest that it may have rushed the product through without adequate testing . |
| 11 | As oral amiodarone had no adverse effect on the liver function in our patient , we suggest that it may have been one of the other constituents of the intravenous solution which was responsible for the hepatotoxicity . |
| 12 | However , even simple estimates for the W particle suggest that it should weigh in at something like 30 times the proton 's mass . |
| 13 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 14 | During negotiations Iraq proposed that it would recognize all of Kuwait 's land borders in return for full rights to Warba island and the lease of half of Bubiyan . |
| 15 | Little did we know that it would result in one of the most amazing periods of any of our lives — including David 's I 'm sure . |
| 16 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |
| 17 | They should know that it will change nothing . |
| 18 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 19 | However , as a strategic planning authority , it is through the Structure Plan process that it can influence the protection of natural resources such as peat lands , and the opportunity for this will arise in the current review of the Plan which will be available for public consultation in the New Year . |
| 20 | Alf Morris , the Labour Party 's spokesman for the disabled , promised that it would increase pensions above the rate of inflation . |
| 21 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 22 | It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition . |
| 23 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 24 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 25 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 26 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 27 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 28 | Though this project is principally concerned with the city of Edinburgh its relevance is much wider , to British cities in general and it is expected that it will demonstrate how land-owners , builders , house factors and other interests in property were able to control the pace and pattern of urban development largely to their own ends without recognising the long term consequences for the physical shape and quality of the housing and building stock and its long term impact on modern society in terms of street lay outs , maintenance and repairs , and the availability of open spaces . |
| 29 | Just after the war began the prime minister was asked by a Conservative backbencher to condemn the BBC for announcing that it would avoid calling British troops ‘ our troops ’ . |
| 30 | On June 1 President Ranasinghe Premadasa had held talks with LTTE leaders in Colombo , and on June 6 the government conceded a key LTTE demand , announcing that it would dissolve the North-Eastern Provincial Council ( elected in late 1988 , when the province was under the control of Indian troops , and in the face of an LTTE election boycott — see p. 37007 ) and hold fresh elections . |