Example sentences of "it [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | It could seat twenty passengers on rattan cane seats , who boarded by a short ladder over the sides ! |
| 62 | And it could programme everything on it , just in that pack , the radio and everything . |
| 63 | The police say the drug wo n't build mucle but it could destry a life . |
| 64 | Then , when the special symbol arrives , it could hand back the resolved logical form with the highest score . |
| 65 | ‘ But the powers rebuked her , saying , ‘ This is a site for peace and from it shall peace come . |
| 66 | There is truth , it is possible at least to advance towards it , we must n't sit down in what Hume called ‘ a forlorn scepticism ’ , erm it will require great courage to pursue it , but only by pursuing it shall mankind prosper . |
| 67 | It would clog it up . |
| 68 | With the death of Abe , it possessed no figure with sufficient authority to make a credible challenge for the leadership , and many commentators predicted that it would fracture and split . |
| 69 | B : yes it would A : I mean the job not the hardware shop B : yes I REAlize what do you keep telling me for |
| 70 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 71 | I wish it would buck up and be Monday . |
| 72 | Any moment it would buck , toss her , white broken heap , on to the gleaming floor . |
| 73 | On the other hand , it would costs a small fortune to equip yourself with a full set of stainless steel tools , although these are best if you can afford them . |
| 74 | A National Guard , reporting directly to the President , was to be established immediately , in order to reduce the role of the army in riot control ; according to official sources it would number tens of thousands , and would incorporate the riot police . |
| 75 | If nobody saw anybody yesterday I 'd be amazed it 's fine because if is the legitimate trigger and it would C command no one . |
| 76 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 77 | But if they had twenty five percent it would gentlemen of the Conservative party to say , Listen , you 've got twenty five percent , go on , run the country . |
| 78 | If he had of done , it would Leonard 's , not the other side . |
| 79 | it would have a list of , and it would sort of say that sort of command Dot Com , vers version three or something . |
| 80 | so , every now and again it was sort of , it would sort of flash and say the server was being accessed and sort of brrp it was gone . |
| 81 | if you did n't put enough middle in it , it would sort of sink then , then it would be drawing the water in |
| 82 | Well indigestion , it was terrible pains down my chest just as though you 'd swallowed glass and every now and again it would sort of stab at you . |
| 83 | Great cos I I was like sitting there blowing down it seeing if it 'd work and it would sort of stop working completely . |
| 84 | It would discipline assessments of success and provide a means of remedying a weakness in government ; insufficient learning from experience of reforms . |
| 85 | The government banned the rally , fearing it would foment more Hindu-Muslim violence in a country still reeling from bloodshed ignited by the demolition . |
| 86 | ‘ Another inch and it would hiv had my balls . ’ |
| 87 | ‘ It would bolt . ’ |
| 88 | It would be.the most powerful force on earth . |
| 89 | If the bid by Airtours , based in Rossendale , Lancashire , is successful , it would corner about a third of the package holiday market — about the same share as Thomson . |
| 90 | Sir Richard Body , a farmer who has kept pigs himself for many years , explained that he intends to press on with his Private Member 's Bill since it would phase out the sow stalls within five years instead of the Minister 's eight years . |