Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 2 | During negotiations Iraq proposed that it would recognize all of Kuwait 's land borders in return for full rights to Warba island and the lease of half of Bubiyan . |
| 3 | Alf Morris , the Labour Party 's spokesman for the disabled , promised that it would increase pensions above the rate of inflation . |
| 4 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 5 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 6 | ONCE UPON a time , the government of Norway promised that it would not only protect the wolf as an endangered species , but even maintain a breeding population of the beast . |
| 7 | He sensed their relief : the twinkling ‘ brute ’ promised that it would not be unremittingly solemn ; the man could still see a light side . |
| 8 | He also acknowledged the extent of the country 's current economic recession but , invoking the spirit of Desert Storm ( the operational codename for the US prosecution of the Gulf war ) , he promised that it would be overcome . |
| 9 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 10 | He nevertheless maintained that it would have been irresponsible of him to have gone forward without warning colleagues of his reservations . |
| 11 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |
| 12 | They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies . |
| 14 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 15 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 16 | If he 'd broken her arm , she doubted that it would have altered his tone or his attitude in any way . |
| 17 | Fortunately the rain held off , but walking with Ven , his knowledge of the area seemingly limitless , Fabia doubted that it would have bothered her all that much had the heavens opened . |
| 18 | By 1938 the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee ad-mitted that it could not increase dependants ' benefits without pushing the level of unemployment benefit for the family man above the level of many workers earnings . |
| 19 | He was sitting in a chair — we were all having our picture taken — and I mentioned that it would be good if he could stand with us , so we could all be together . |
| 20 | He tested the 1:8 mixture in bottles of various sizes until he found that it would not explode in long narrow tubes that offered a large cooling surface . |
| 21 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
| 22 | The Athens team found that it could . |
| 23 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 24 | The magazine found that it could not justify the Crozier allegations which it had published , and agreed to apologise , pay damages and make a statement in open court publicly retracting the libel . |
| 25 | Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season . |
| 26 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 27 | But she doubted whether it would work as well once the system , dominated by West Germany , was diluted by other countries less committed to the policy of bearing down on prices . |
| 28 | When this act was debated , many doubted whether it would achieve its dual purpose of curbing presidents and giving teeth to the constitutional war power of Congress . |
| 29 | When Philip of Colombière 's nephew killed the niece of the bishop of Bayeaux , King Henry II 's court behaved as it would have done in the previous century in reconciling the parties by arranging a settlement between them . |
| 30 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |