Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the police were thinking about blackmail it would n't be long before they got to Barbara Porter . |
| 2 | The vendor may simply refuse to consider a retention or deferred payment since after completion it will simply not have the facilities to perform any remaining contractual obligations and vicarious performance by the purchaser is not possible or is inappropriate . |
| 3 | As it had been used after employment it could only have been protected by an express term . |
| 4 | As was noted above , however much one may value identification with one 's community , since it can be expressed by other means than respect for law it can not be a foundation of an obligation to respect the law , nor a basis for the general authority of governments over all their subjects . |
| 5 | Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it ! |
| 6 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 7 | ‘ We can but of course it wo n't be as easy for us to get away once Maggie is gone , ’ she said it in a pleasant way that sometimes humoured him and sometimes could put his teeth on edge . |
| 8 | And he told his cheering audience : ‘ Of course it wo n't work . |
| 9 | Of course it wo n't end in divorce . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course it wo n't , you twit , ’ the mother said . |
| 11 | And I 'm quite sure that what Mr Major will then say if , if er demand and borrowing and so on does take off again , er is that this is because the real economy has improved , but of course it wo n't be true , er and we shall have to pay the price again er at the end of the , of the honeymoon period . |
| 12 | Of course it would n't . |
| 13 | Of course it would n't work , but she must try . |
| 14 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 15 | Easter food has a lightness and freshness after the richness of Christmas ; and of course it would n't be Easter without eggs . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course it would n't bother me ! ’ she replied at once , but she had the awful feeling that her denial lacked the ring of truth . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course it would n't work when one of us is determined that it should n't . |
| 18 | Of course it would n't . |
| 19 | well my Lord , yes the stay of the counterclaim as a set off , that would then be denying article eighty five as a shield well of course it would n't undermine the defences based upon article eighty five per se , the other ways , I mean the set off is simply one way in which the defence arises , it arises in three other ways as your Lordship seems to have an opinion , security or set off is simply one of the ways the defence , but it 's not the only defence , so to simply state that part of the defence would not get the , would not mean that the article eighty five defence erm , er , evaporated in any way shape or form , the whole defence would have to be stayed so that there was none , no defence left , a defence on article eighty five |
| 20 | And the prod it was it was sort of kept as within a reason of time of course it would n't . |
| 21 | And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but |
| 22 | of course it may not be the case cos spouse may be well off , but you need to make a new will . |
| 23 | So that 's that 's quite a lot , if it 's an investigator , which of course it may not be . |
| 24 | Of course it might even be something more dramatic like leukaemia . |
| 25 | Of course it ca n't . |
| 26 | Of course it need not follow that separate assessment must have cast the younger members of every family as wage earners , any more than it did in other shires where traces of an emergent discrete labouring class were already manifest . |
| 27 | If the document is to be regarded technically as a matter of law , as a codicil , of course it need not contain any appointment of executors , but the position still is that when it was signed by Mr. Winterbone it did not contain any effective disposition at all . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course it will never happen , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 29 | I believe it is very important to judge a new settlement in terms of viability and sustainability on the availability of some significant element of jobs , of course it will never be self contained , erm but that is a very important factor , I do n't see that in the list of criteria . |
| 30 | But of course it can not happen . |