Example sentences of "[coord] it [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , 209 all out seemed a fair performance by England , or it would have done had more of their batsmen scored some runs . |
| 2 | This assumption was not necessarily justified , for the feud may have been a motive for the theft , or it may have determined whom the complainant decided to accuse in a case of real theft when the thieves were unknown . |
| 3 | Or it may have based its decision on some matter which , under the provisions setting it up , it had no right to take into account . |
| 4 | The monastery may have been sacked by Vikings or it may have fallen down through neglect , but either way it needed reviving . |
| 5 | ‘ It may have been the innermost box or it may have overlapped with other sub-boxes , but it was within the compartment , yes . ’ |
| 6 | The Agii Theodhori shipyard and port may have served Knossos or Mallia , or it may have had its own hinterland on the boundary of the two major territories . |
| 7 | The death of Isis may have been an aberration , or it may have had nothing to do with the others . |
| 8 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 9 | 3600 BP and then remained constant , or it may have oscillated to positions above and below present levels ( Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 10 | So , it will either have not worked at all for some obscure reason or it will have worked well and . |
| 11 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 12 | The fungal growth may have been due to the water quality being affected by the chemicals , or it could have set in where damage had occurred as a result of the flicking . |
| 13 | A bird pecking at food grains could have known without learning what food looks like , or it could have learnt it . |
| 14 | Or it could have refused to recognise Bosnia , stayed on the territory of the newly independent state and fought . |
| 15 | Salinity on the same density surface in the Iceland Basin is fresher , between 34.89–34.90 , so it could be older than that in the Rockall Trough , that is before 1970 , or it could have originated more recently , when salinity increased between 1981 and 1985 . |
| 16 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 17 | Alternatively it might have been a shop purveying cooked food , or it could have provided eating facilities for travellers along the road . |
| 18 | And that muscle 'll grow over the top of that scar , and it 'll get rid of all that for you Jim . |
| 19 | Just , you 've got ta go on that , and she presses it and the chart thing which is press that one and it 'll get rid of it all . |
| 20 | I am sure that British Rail has considered all the options and it may have asked the consultants to study alternatives . |
| 21 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 22 | The body politic may have undergone radical surgery and it may have aged considerably , but it has continued to endure . |
| 23 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 24 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 25 | ‘ And it might have done him a bit of good . ’ |
| 26 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 27 | The vessel is described as being about six inches tall and it has been suggested that it may have been used as a chalice , and it might have originated in Spain or Syria and been brought home to England from one of the Crusades . |
| 28 | I do not think he married her particularly for love , but for the sake of his daughters , as people did in those days ; and it might have seemed that she was ideally suited for this , with her quiet , dignified manner , and she having been a housekeeper . |
| 29 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 30 | ‘ I had n't hit the wickets for a while and I was n't going to throw it because it was a rather tense moment and it would have given away at least one run if I had missed ’ Rhodes recalled . |