Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1968 , the watershed year of the student riots in Paris , when most of the new generation of radicals were denouncing the Labour Party as hopelessly fuddy-duddy , he had joined up , believing it would one day become the focus for a new alliance of Right-On movements , Now , more than a decade on , his dream was starting to come true and the new radical politics were about to be released on an unsuspecting populace — with mixed results . |
| 2 | When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation . |
| 3 | However the Village Association would be willing to subsidise it should other arrangements be made to continue . |
| 4 | Consultants claim it could double services between Queen Street and Waverley stations with a train leaving every fifteen minutes . |
| 5 | Consultants claim it could double services between the trwo cities . |
| 6 | But , on the contrary , it had been the beginning of the lifelong fight for Swift , because Jamie knew it might one day fall into his lap . |
| 7 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |