Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Soviet Union believed it could exploit possible NATO weakness at the intermediate nuclear level , the risks for it from aggression would be less . |
| 2 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 3 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 4 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |
| 5 | The Halifax predicted a base rate cut ‘ within the next few weeks ’ , pledged it would pass lower costs on to borrowers without delay and forecast a surge in sales , with some return of house price inflation before the end of the year . |
| 6 | But county councillors claimed it would reduce parental choice by restricting the number of 11-year-old pupils the popular school can recruit . |
| 7 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 8 | Then , in addition , it decided it must limit local authorities ' powers to go on increasing local rates . |
| 9 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 10 | This option was , however , never used without the agreement of the chairmen , and then only on those rare occasions when they felt it would help secure acceptance of unpopular measures by their colleagues and the broader public . |
| 11 | The renewal in 1960 provoked a major political crisis and a storm of protest throughout Japan , not only from those opposed to the treaty per se , but from those who feared it might encourage Japanese rearmament and the placing of nuclear weapons on Japanese soil . |
| 12 | Representatives of the 1,600 investors on Mr Outhwaite 's syndicate , who face losses of £305 million , welcomed the settlement , although spokesman Peter Nutting feared it would increase total losses . |
| 13 | We knew it would happen one day . ’ |
| 14 | Sometimes he said he knew it would happen one day . |
| 15 | He knew it would take great care and he knew also — inadmissible , subversive thought — that what he really wanted was to live with her here , securely , for the rest of his life : that was the earthly promise of the revelation at Hause Point . |
| 16 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 17 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 18 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 19 | and I thought it would cost ten pound . |
| 20 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
| 21 | Only a couple of months ago some inside the Federal Reserve thought it might loosen monetary policy this summer one last time . |
| 22 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 24 | I mean , we thought it 'd rain this year so it 's more |
| 25 | ‘ I thought it 'd last another year , but wi ’ the rain this summer I shall have to get it fixed . |
| 26 | Mrs Thatcher insisted it would make more sense to wait and see how it worked out in practice before preparing moves to the more controversial second and third stages of EMU — including a central bank and a single currency . |
| 27 | To make up for a late start , the government this year announced it would make available £125 million of grants to push industry into the robot age . |
| 28 | When , a year ago , IBM announced it would support other networking protocols alongside its proprietary Systems Network Architecture ( CI No 1,901 ) there were some sceptics in the audience . |
| 29 | Reflecting the rapid spread of AIDS in the Asia-Pacific region , the Malaysian government in September 1989 announced it would begin random blood testing of Malaysian nationals returning from Thailand ( where the number of HIV-infected people was the highest in the region ) . |
| 30 | Norway announced it would resume commercial whaling regardless of an international ban . |