Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 2 | Becker hints at the inside model when he concludes , not without generating some confusion , that ‘ whether a given act is deviant or not depends in part on the nature of the act ( that is , whether or not it violates some rule ) and in part on what other people do about it ’ . |
| 3 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
| 4 | Whether or not it has any prospect of success this court is in no position to determine , but while it remains alive we do not consider that the judgment of this court can be described as final within the meaning of rule 2 ( a ) . |
| 5 | This includes knowing what time of day to take it , how long you should continue taking it ( just until you feel better or until the end of the full course ? ) , whether or not it has any side-effects ( such as drowsiness ) , and whether or not it should not be taken in conjunction with certain foods or alcohol . |
| 6 | The internationally respected journal Index on Censorship devoted the whole of its September 1988 issue to the question of liberty in Britain , because , as its opening article entitled ‘ Why Britain ? ’ put it , ‘ if freedom is diminished in the United Kingdom , where historically it has deep roots , it is potentially diminished everywhere ’ . |
| 7 | The newly styled firm of G. & J. Cary continued at 86 St James 's Street until 1850 , although apparently it ceased cartographic publication c .1846 . |
| 8 | It is important not to be inflexible when looking at housing options , although sometimes it seems that dogma is of overriding importance to staff and , indeed , more important than finding solutions which suit individuals . |
| 9 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 10 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 11 | Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be . |
| 12 | Theatre , in past centuries , might have counted as a mass medium : it was an effective way of spreading ideas , and so it suffered official censorship ( not abolished until the 1960s ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Benelux did advance further than other proposals for economic union , such as that toyed at in 1945 and again in 1948 by France and Italy , and perhaps it offered valuable lessons that could be learnt by future attempts in the same direction . |
| 14 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 15 | While that was a brilliant evocation of living by your wits in or near a New York gutter , which pushed out several boundaries — largely sexual — in relation to the old Hollywood code of conduct , there was a degree of tameness in comparison to the anti-heroes created in Easy Rider ; Fonda , Hopper and especially Nicholson were used as role models for many future films , and thus it broke new ground . |
| 16 | The justification advanced — and clearly it has some validity — is that medical opinion is divided , or , more important , that the legal concept is of a different nature from the medical , involving considerations other than the mere question of scientific evidence , such as notions of responsibility or the common good . |
| 17 | The family living room is filled with bulkly materials which create dust and refuse , and often it stores dangerous glues and solvents and sharp instruments hwich have to be guarded from the children . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , East ( Mr. Healey ) was one of the main authors of that doctrine in the 1960s and today it enjoys some credibility due to the efforts of the present Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence , who has argued clearly for the theory of flexible response in a series of public lectures and articles . |
| 19 | Plenty of dual instruction is needed to be safe , and then it requires constant practice on high approaches to be able to sideslip effectively . |
| 20 | surplus there is , and then it redistributes that surplus and given that the , the , the priority is industrialization most if not all of that surplus is going to go to the industrial sector . |
| 21 | And then it fills one side up then . |
| 22 | yes , and then it says ordinary management services |
| 23 | There 's er a collar and a what they call a which is a protein tube and then it has various spikes at the end that make it stick on to the outside of the bacteria . |
| 24 | It forms when chlorine-containing compounds such as CFCs break down in the stratosphere and then it triggers photochemical chain reactions that can destroy as many as 100000 molecules of ozone per molecule of ClO . |
| 25 | It 's , tonight it 's , think of these as a sort of temperature numbers that , try , try these , it starts at plus three tonight and then it drops five degrees , plus three and it drops five degrees , what does it come to ? |
| 26 | and then it winds another piece of paper in and starts printing again |
| 27 | In most areas , only bulls with small ivory survive , a fact which bodes ill , genetically speaking , for the future of the species — if indeed it has any future in the wild at all . |
| 28 | The exposed skin was flushed and glowing ; here and there it resembled tanned leather and , in some cases , it looked as if it had split and healed , and split again . |
| 29 | After some preparatory work in Napier , they will learn at first hand about how organisations work , relating theory to the aims of their particular community partner organisation and how it achieves those aims . |
| 30 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |