Example sentences of "[adj] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet he could see how different it must have looked in the summer , how it would have appealed to Alex at the beginning of his supposed new start , and to Lesley-Jane in the throes of her first grown-up affair . |
| 2 | I mean it could have been different it could have got out of control and then everybody would have turned and pointed a finger and that would have been awful . |
| 3 | BA had made it clear it would drop the deal if the merger was referred to the commission or bound by conditions . |
| 4 | The releases could be part of China 's bid to sway the International Olympic Committee to award the 2000 Olympics to Beijing , which has made clear it will do anything to win the Games . |
| 5 | On Friday night Sir Hector made it clear it must separate its milk selling from its milk buying . |
| 6 | It also became clear it could take two or three days of fierce ministerial talks to sort out the division of the £244.5 billion public spending cake . |
| 7 | He still does n't know how much more smashing it might have been . |
| 8 | If the drop is almost perfectly spherical it may magnify too much . |
| 9 | ‘ Vengeance , ’ said Huy , meaning it , but speaking the word before he realised how theatrical it must sound . |
| 10 | I do n't mind Come Up and See Me being released ; God willing it will go high enough for them to invite me on Top Of The Pops ! |
| 11 | If the fixed charge has to be very high it may induce people to abandon consumption of the commodity altogether . |
| 12 | Above her , the vault seemed so high it should have had rag-clouds like Mars , but it was unearthly white . |
| 13 | The venture — to spotlight National Housing Week — was such a success that hopes are high it will develop into an annual competition . |
| 14 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
| 15 | And very sensible it will seem . ’ |
| 16 | If it had been wet it would have been impossible on horseback , but he managed it . |
| 17 | Then you 'd put the flimsy over it and then there was a kind of a an e an absorbent kind of a rag the right size , not too wet , cos if it was too wet it would run . |
| 18 | But it 's important not to sweat if the clothes get wet it could cause problems . ’ |
| 19 | Fondant is easily coloured ( see page 21 for instructions on how to mix with food colouring ) , and although soft and pliable it will harden sufficiently for painting and forming into free-standing objects . |
| 20 | If we put the player on top of something tinny it 'll sound a bit more like real music . ’ |
| 21 | If the court finds a credit bargain extortionate it may re-open the credit agreement so as to do justice between the parties . |
| 22 | ‘ I was afraid it would make him turn his face to the wall . |
| 23 | The harvest had started , everyone else was out in the fields , afraid it would rain , and for the next few days Libby and George joined in , stooking and carrying sheaves which they could seldom get to balance . |
| 24 | Or are you afraid it would upset your neutrality ? " |
| 25 | How could she , Melanie , have ever guessed that her uncle would be a monster with a voice so loud she was afraid it would bring the roof down and bury them all ? |
| 26 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 27 | It was harder , therefore , to turn , and since they were on piece-work they were afraid it would affect their wage . |
| 28 | In prehistoric times , if people made the horse feel anxious or afraid it would run like mad until it had seen the last of them : it fled from the problem , which reduced his fear and anxiety . |
| 29 | But I am afraid it would require a deeper understanding of the chemistry of proteins than I possess to explain how the energy of the ATP is harnessed to the active transport of salts and other substances . |
| 30 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |