Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sri Lanka broke off diplomatic relations with Israel on April 20 , 1990 , announcing that it would restore them when Israel recognised the PLO , withdrew from the occupied territories and agreed to participate in an international peace conference . |
| 2 | In London during the Great Plague people chewed on the root , believing that it would protect them from the disease . |
| 3 | Something which could interest her without being thought so eccentric or so socially damaging that it would upset her mother . |
| 4 | Rufus had thought Goblander needed a thorough overhaul and the mechanic confirmed this , adding that it would cost him . |
| 5 | She would kill him later , but for the present , she was thinking of Sycorax , who had instructed her in love , and wondering if it would please her that here she was , filling a man with desire just as Sycorax had always said she should . |
| 6 | a letter from a grant awarding body ( e.g. education and library board , local education authority ) stating that it will pay your fees ( if this is not provided you will be responsible for the payment of your fees ) ; |
| 7 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 8 | Now the hardware side , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has responded to the waves of criticism by saying that it will make its silicon designs available to some semiconductor fabricators so that they can make , sell and support chips based on those designs worldwide . |
| 9 | At Mildenhall in Suffolk in the spring of 1688 , a parson threatened to bring a Nonconformist minister before a JP for preaching a sermon , saying that it should cost him £20 ( the fine for preaching at a conventicle under the terms of the 1670 Act , whose operation had just been suspended ) . |
| 10 | The dialogue form of what became the Two chief world systems ( 1632 ) was a brilliant response to these restrictions , Galileo probably calculating that it would protect him from censure , even if his impartial discussion pointed to far from impartial conclusions . |
| 11 | Knowing what he would find when he went there , and knowing that it would pain him , Edouard delayed the moment when he would make a formal inspection of the house . |
| 12 | Kate replied in her most matter-of-face voice , hoping that it would hide her half-guilty pleasure at his words . |
| 13 | Many people will be concerned at my suggestion that drawing should be taught in our schools , perhaps fearing that it will take us back to the kind of dull lesson I have described , with children being taught unimaginative and stereotyped ways of drawing . |