Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [conj] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that if it could be killed , the rebels would be doing the Prime Minister a favour . |
| 2 | C. , 1976 ) the court indicated that while it would determine the existence and the scope of the prerogative power , it would not review the propriety or adequacy of the grounds on which it had been exercised . |
| 3 | The motor racing world was stunned because , in a sport that flirts with death , there were many drivers who thought that if it could happen to Clark , it could happen to any of them . |
| 4 | It looked as though it would be a good party . |
| 5 | It looked as though it would be a hard winter . |
| 6 | His hat was stuck on top of his head but it looked as though it would blow off at any minute . |
| 7 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 8 | But the tail of the Mary Alice looked as though it might break off completely any minute and was causing such a drag that we had to fly back on our own . |
| 9 | But while his second innings batting on Monday looked as though it might save the match , his bowling was desperately short of aggression and conviction . |
| 10 | The sock above it looked as though it could be a Histyle Odourprufe , made of Guaranteed eighty-five per cent Polyputheketlon , the most expensive sock in the world . |
| 11 | It was an uncompromising block which looked as though it could withstand a siege . |
| 12 | The weather smiled as though it could never frown . |
| 13 | At a tete-a-tete recently with analysts and the press , Windows NT product manager , Dwayne Walker , said that although it can be used on a server , it was ‘ first and foremost a desktop operating system . ’ |
| 14 | More recently , my microwave oven began to smoke and , again , the dealer said that as it would cost more than £200 to repair , I should consider buying a new one . |
| 15 | His uncertainty over what he had and where it might be seemed to indicate that he only drank when he entertained , and that he did n't entertain very often . |
| 16 | Furthermore , it recognized that because it could not supply such high quality weaponry as the United States , and because communism did not commend itself to most Arab regimes , the Soviet-Arab bond was bound to remain weaker than the American-Israeli one . |