Example sentences of "ago it [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen , maybe twenty years ago it might have been possible . |
| 2 | A decade ago it would have been inconceivable that we would now know enough about the molecules of cancer to consider genetic intervention . |
| 3 | Well that 's why I said ten or fifteen years ago it would have been easy to give an answer . |
| 4 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 5 | At the end of the day I still have strong reservations about the software , eighteen months ago it would have been fine but exposure to everything from 1–2–3 to Open Access has left me expecting rather more from an integrated package . |
| 6 | Several years ago it would have been incomprehensible for a rational scientist or physician to conclude that myocardial ischaemia might somehow act to protect the heart from necrosis . |
| 7 | Thirty years ago it would have been unthinkable . |
| 8 | Even a few months ago it would have been unthinkable that Howard Kendall 's Moody Blues should face Brian Clough 's Nottingham Forest , as will happen on Saturday , in a match billed as a ‘ relegation battle . ’ |