Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) If the specimen with the lower proportion of alcohol contains no more than 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath , the person who provided it may claim that it should be replaced by such specimen as may be required under section 7(4) of this Act and , if he then provides such a specimen , neither specimen of breath shall be used . |
| 2 | The new company promised it would provide a better service to the North , including a news service specifically for South Durham , Teesside and North Yorkshire . |
| 3 | But she doubted it would go any further — well , could n't go any further as she was only staying the one night . |
| 4 | He doubted it would add up to much , though , just another of her lads , the orange or the green . |
| 5 | If the system disagrees with the figure entered it will challenge it — otherwise it moves on to the next item . |
| 6 | But according to the common understanding of neutrality , Uruguay would have been breaking its neutrality if in the circumstances described it would have started supplying one of the parties with militarily useful materials after the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 7 | They also maintained it would harm pub businesses and severely dent the services offered to tourists . |
| 8 | As the core cooled it would form a solid outer shell , and as this shell further cooled through the Curie temperature it could retain today the magnetic field of the remnant liquid iron core within it . |
| 9 | ‘ The man who used it must have thought so . ’ |
| 10 | If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree . |
| 11 | Cleverly used it will double , treble , even quadruple the size . |
| 12 | README.DOC warns of large values — I found it would accept up to 9M in series calculations , and 1M in parallel . |
| 13 | He knew that whoever found it could rule the new world . |
| 14 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 15 | The one I selected guaranteed 10 minutes of power backup , but I found it could run for over 20 minutes before it signalled that it was out of storage capacity . |
| 16 | No further work may be performed on the DC and the user who proposed it should review the reasons why it was rejected and produce a more suitable DC . |
| 17 | Police said they did not know why the gun had gone off , but believed it might have been triggered by the wind . |
| 18 | The drop in numbers is one of the reasons why the Government believed it would cost far less to administer . |
| 19 | One retail analyst said he believed it would make customers more likely to spend on food and gifts . |
| 20 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 21 | A planning inspector rejected plans to build a £3m private clinic because he believed it would create traffic chaos and disturb NHS hospital patients . |
| 22 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 23 | In future , she would not go looking for love , or trying to manufacture it out of other lesser emotions , but she still believed it would find her one day . |
| 24 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 25 | So if someone is mugged , raped , or injured , it is because he or she believed it would happen . |
| 26 | If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame . |
| 27 | She believed it would have been the suitable punishment for killing Mrs MacAllister as the two walked together in a remote forest in March last year . |
| 28 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 29 | In fact , David himself believed it would have been far better to have let the whole matter drop . |
| 30 | When questioned about selective internment , Mr Smyth said he believed it should go ahead and be even handed , involving both loyalist and republican terrorists . |