Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Was after world war one anyway I mind of that , so say it might have been in the twenties he might have done I would n't say proper |
2 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
3 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
4 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
5 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
6 | Or it might be your neighbours have become victims of crime and you suddenly see it could happen to you . |
7 | I just hope it will pass . |
8 | We just hope it will happen by itself . |
9 | The reason for her pent-up fury is not disclosed , though we rather suspect it may have something to do with her father 's preference for her sister . |
10 | I rather suspect it could lead to a lot of foul-hooked fish , which is another thing I deplore when done deliberately . |
11 | I am particularly proud of this scheme and I sincerely hope it will succeed . |
12 | Although the Palace refused to be drawn on what further action it might take , it is clear legal moves have not been ruled out . |
13 | If this comes in a school assembly where there are many agnostics or atheists possibly present it can provoke the reaction , " How dare they try to make us Christian " . |
14 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
15 | And they always know it can disappear overnight . |
16 | I can flood the paper using this frame and be sure that once dry it will return to a perfectly flat surface . |
17 | Lorton said : ‘ I still think it would have been better to kill him . ’ |
18 | I 'm not sure I still think it would come out in the section about training needs rather than necessarily . |
19 | I know authors say they prefer to let their work speak for them , but I hardly think it would harm the integrity of the book to know a little something about the man , such as that he is forty-two , married to American academic Antonia Phillips , with two children , Louis and Jacob , and that he has what he calls a ‘ middle-aged obsession ’ with competitive games , particularly tennis . |
20 | I hardly think it will lead to anything in six one-hour episodes . ’ |
21 | I always think it would fit in as well in the Mediterranean as in the North Atlantic , because it has the black and white colouring common among all sorts of species of northern bird , and the brightly coloured bill and feet typical of birds that live in hot countries . |
22 | They also fear it could lead to parking problems and more traffic . |
23 | I also hope it will prove helpful to you , as employees , by enabling you to correct some of the misapprehensions commonly expressed about our industry and its products . |
24 | Central government may assign a local authority a large guideline figure for capital expenditure but also assume it will finance a lot of it from sales of council houses , for example , and hence give a small credit approval . |
25 | Although the British Government ruled out the prospect of the US company buying Austin Rover , within days of it leaking out that talks had been taking place , Bob Lutz , Ford of Europe chairman , said : ‘ I honestly believe it would have been best for Britain . ’ |
26 | ‘ But the side looks well balanced — and the way we are playing I honestly believe it will take something special to stop us . |
27 | TOO MUCH SUPPLY , TOO LITTLE DEMAND It will take more than an upturn to cheer the developers up — there will be little for them to do until tenants move into the large areas of commercial space that have yet to be let |
28 | After reading the story in the Echo I now realise it can happen on local lines . |
29 | Only those who really want it would buy it , saving you expense . |
30 | If the present deliberation of the UK 's Follett Committee are to be taken at all seriously , the research and teaching library as we now know it will change fundamentally over the next ten years . |