Example sentences of "it said it [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 It said it may discuss such transactions , which would not involve a change in control , with the management .
2 It said it would absorb Information Consulting but could not disclose details of the transaction .
3 It said it would return to the Australian supreme court today to ensure the agreement was in the interest of shareholders .
4 It said it would also seek to ban the fungicides ' use on tomatoes , potatoes and bananas .
5 Last month another group of rebels , the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front , promised to be equally generous with the port of Massawa : it said it would allow food to be moved from there to the government-held town of Asmara .
6 As it said it would eventually , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has begun manufacturing the IBM Corp RS/6000 systems it resells as its DPX/20 line at its plant in Angers .
7 It said it would support British Telecom 's request ‘ once AT&T has the same practical access to the UK market as that currently sought by BT North America in the US , ’ and has filed comments urging the US to deny British Telecom 's request until US carriers have comparable access to the UK market .
8 Where the government has done exactly what it said it would do , its policies have worked .
9 Unix Expo delivered what it said it would , counting a record 28,722 attendees and characterising them as primarily corporate buyers .
10 A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected .
11 Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) .
12 Bissell 's eyes never left Rohmer as he spoke , and Rohmer knew what the thing meant when it said it would n't talk to Gilbert anymore .
13 On the other hand , for the Type B non-profit , the extent to which income from non-revenue sources such as taxation covers cost is only a very narrow measure of performance : it only measures the extent to which the organization spent what it said it would spend , saying nothing about how the market valued its goods and services .
14 If it spends more during the year than it said it would spend , it is worse off and must either borrow more or raise more taxes .
15 It said it would cut the power supply to the national grid if its demands were not met .
16 Mr Prescott said : ‘ If private capital can not produce the goods as it said it could , they should be given a short period of time to clear the mess up , or we will take it over .
17 It emerged yesterday that one of the two private consortia negotiating to build the line with British Rail had rejected BR 's preferred route because it said it could cost up to £5bn .
18 Ousley 's quite happy with the way it has all panned out ‘ because MIPS did n't have the wherewithal to do all it said it could .
19 It said it could n't understand why the British Amateur Weight Lifter 's Association had reached the decision not to take action against the two weighlifters .
20 D which is ridiculous really I mean if you pronounce it said it should be something like S E D
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