Example sentences of "it [vb past] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |
| 2 | Many believe the government recently took the confusion between public service and commercial logic to its ultimate fatuity in another areas when it announced it would shut down one third of all the country 's post offices to provide the public with , in its words , a better postal service . |
| 3 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 4 | It assumed it could do so again . |
| 5 | When it came it would swallow up all her prettiness and everything that had happened to her . |
| 6 | Whence it came it will return , perhaps again , to be communicated to some being higher than man , perhaps to pass through gradations of glory from the pale human soul to brighten the seraph . |
| 7 | On lap 21 , it seemed it might have a niggling problem with its drivers as Patrese made a serious lunge down the inside and Mansell made an equally serious attempt to stop him . |
| 8 | And sometimes since I have wished … ’ and here Minch dropped her voice low as if she was ashamed of what she was about to say , ‘ … well , there have been times when it seemed it might have been better if they had taken me . |
| 9 | It seemed it would have been ill advised to follow the PARIS II route — costs would have been astronomical and timescales unrealistic . |
| 10 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 11 | It claimed it would ensure that money in the health service ‘ followed the patient ’ , which Labour was not opposed to , but in fact the bill meant the patient would have to follow the money and the contracts . |
| 12 | The civil servants ' reluctance would be resolved by a ministerial directive that the project must be supported — some action was always better than none , the project would have an impact in several regions , if it worked it would boost exports and create employment . |
| 13 | Perhaps it decided to stay put and I would n't notice it was there and maybe at the last second it decided it would run for it ! |
| 14 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 15 | Then , in addition , it decided it must limit local authorities ' powers to go on increasing local rates . |
| 16 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 17 | Sometimes , it thought it would choke under the oppressive weight of fact . |
| 18 | A family simulating post strike conditions in an improvised shelter was asked how it thought it might cope with diarrhoea and vomiting and , understandably , did n't think it would cope very well . |
| 19 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
| 20 | By December 1987 , having lost three successive general elections , plus some by-elections it thought it should have won , Labour was quite desperate . |
| 21 | So I mean it it was it was represented to me er and I felt that there was some logic in it that that this company would not be discussing this deal unless it felt it could make money out of it and that money in the end would have to come out of the local people here . |
| 22 | Those that wanted little more than routine audits have been redirected to other firms , allowing Robson Rhodes to concentrate on those with which it felt it could build a long-term relationship as ‘ a business counsellor ’ . |
| 23 | If it did it would involve a transformation of the human practices that produce knowledge , that is the transformation of ideological practice into scientific practice . |
| 24 | Janet Kear writes — in Wildfowl World , No 84 — ‘ We assume that the peregrine is ‘ programmed ’ not to hunt near its nest ( if it did it might feed on its own young ) and that this immunity extends to the goose and its goslings . ’ |
| 25 | It said it may discuss such transactions , which would not involve a change in control , with the management . |
| 26 | It said it would absorb Information Consulting but could not disclose details of the transaction . |
| 27 | It said it would return to the Australian supreme court today to ensure the agreement was in the interest of shareholders . |
| 28 | Where the government has done exactly what it said it would do , its policies have worked . |
| 29 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 30 | Last month another group of rebels , the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front , promised to be equally generous with the port of Massawa : it said it would allow food to be moved from there to the government-held town of Asmara . |