Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 3 | Cheltenham finished second — and many in the town say it should have won . |
| 4 | If Wandsworth Council had succeeded it would have set a precedent for councils to take the NASUWT to court . |
| 5 | ‘ The man who used it must have thought so . ’ |
| 6 | Nonetheless , third parties need to be alert to the dynamism of an organisation and realise it might have generated its own practices and activities , which need not necessarily be encompassed by the constitutive treaty . |
| 7 | She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job . |
| 8 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
| 9 | OSF says it 'll have completed technology selection by July 1 . |
| 10 | Peck in his satirical pamphlet on bull-running says , ‘ I am sometimes inclined to believe the Stamfordians and Spaniards are more closely related than most people imagine ’ and Frederick Hackwood in an account of the Tutbury bull-running says it might have originated ‘ in an imitation of Spanish bull-fighting , introduced by John of Gaunt to please his wife Constance , a daughter of Pedro the Cruel of Castile ’ . |
| 11 | In electronics applications , the DoI says it will have spent £22 million in 1982–83 , compared with the £23.8 million forecast . |
| 12 | Mr Kohl says it should stay anchored . |
| 13 | I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear . |
| 14 | The suggestion then is that a fourth clause be added requiring that there be no other truth such that Henry 's believing it would have destroyed his justification for believing that q . |
| 15 | In ‘ La Parure ’ and ‘ The Beast in the Jungle ’ the knowledge which , if the characters had possessed it would have changed their whole lives , is revealed right at the end . |
| 16 | When I back there I am sure I will have changed to a certain extent and I hope it will have helped to develop my managerial skills . ’ |
| 17 | Even if we 're not gon na succeed it must have stuck in their throat that there was Jesus lying asleep . |
| 18 | It is now clear that if the scheme had been adopted it would have had disastrous results . |
| 19 | I should have thought it would have kept him busy until nine or later . |
| 20 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 21 | I would have thought it would have put his partner off playing golf for life . |
| 22 | I hoped the white men were n't telling him to eliminate all witnesses because I do n't believe it would have needed much persuasion . |
| 23 | Monica , who runs an ice cream parlour with husband Peter , 52 , added : ‘ I suppose if people caught a glimpse of what happened it may have looked suspicious . |
| 24 | Like other oil companies , Shell is under pressure to trim costs and by cutting back its contribution to the exploration drilling costs it will have saved £3 million . |
| 25 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 26 | Last year 's postal strike supplied a further motive , as I suspect it may have done for many other recent fax converts . |
| 27 | ‘ Without their local knowledge and contacts it would have taken years for us to achieve what we have managed in a few months , ’ said . |
| 28 | I know , I know it would have done |
| 29 | As though now I know it will get done it is already in the past . |
| 30 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |