Example sentences of "[prep] it [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 2 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 3 | A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy . |
| 4 | We hope that people trying to read the shell-growth record will now be aware that part of it may have been erased . |
| 5 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 6 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 7 | If there was an increase by 1545 , much of it may have come in the years after 1530 , and become important economically only after the period covered by this book ( 75 , p.69 ) . |
| 8 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 9 | B : If you 'd left me as captain , none of it would have happened . |
| 10 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 11 | If this book were written in proportion to the number of species in the group the rest of it would have to be devoted to the insects . |
| 12 | Another half-hour of it would have sealed a momentous victory . |
| 13 | If it could be demonstrated that English facilitated ‘ objectivity ’ more than other languages , then users of it would have a powerful weapon for affirming and legitimating their rights to certain positions of authority in relation to cultures or sub-cultures in which language use lacked this quality . |
| 14 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 15 | But none of it would have been possible without Cecil 's political influence and contacts , as well as his official revenue . |
| 16 | Each of the Six Clerks in Chancery was reputedly worth £3,000 annually ; while this sum was certainly exaggerated , even half of it would have been a substantial amount . |
| 17 | This well known fact was somehow never discussed in public by the girls , for public admission of it would have destroyed and inhibited its oddly private thrill , and would have shamed the vain ones into cowering in their cubicles , as the timid and modest already did . |
| 18 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 19 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 20 | The luggage made a sort of mountain in the barrow , and some of it would have to be lashed to the sides with ropes . |
| 21 | We had so many military establishments over there the Company had its own place Camp King close off Frankfurt I guess most of it would have been there . |
| 22 | If he had not been there , none of it would have happened , but because he was there , she had to retain control . |
| 23 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 24 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 25 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ None of it would have happened if I had n't gone chasing after Guy . ’ |
| 27 | They take for granted , that if Christianity were true , the light of it must have been more general , and the evidence of it more satisfactory … if any of these persons are , upon the whole , in doubt concerning the truth of Christianity ; their behaviour seems owing to their taking for granted , through strange inattention , that such doubting is , in a manner , the same thing as being certain against it . |
| 28 | The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation . |
| 29 | For fourthly he talks about the women in his past , acknowledging that some of it must have been his fault . |
| 30 | dare say quite a lot of it must have been spent in pubs as well . |