Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 2 | Once it was accepted that this kind of question could be raised , the way was open to the conclusion that the Bible should simply be treated as a collection of ancient religious literature with no special claims to be heard or accepted except where it happened to express some general religious ‘ principle ’ that could be recognised as universally valid — the kernel within the husk . |
| 3 | The Treasury accepted that a five-year programme of public investment should be planned , and that if it failed to prove adequate to secure full employment , then changes in taxes to encourage private investment and consumption should be made , but the question of budget deficits remained a bone of contention and was fudged in the report . |
| 4 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 . |
| 5 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 6 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 7 | But if it starts to go wrong again , I 'm walking out , ’ she warned him . |
| 8 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |