Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [subord] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush , who was Vice-President at the time of the operation , and Gates , who was deputy director of the CIA , had both denied any knowledge of the operation until shortly before it became public in November 1986 . |
| 2 | Withdrawal now tends to be discouraged , partly because it is thought to be another form of segregation within the ordinary school , and therefore in danger of isolating and stigmatising children , and partly because it deprives children of access to lessons and activities available to other children . |
| 3 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 4 | Ipswich Airport is due to close , and even before it does lack of facilities at the grass airfield are causing problems for European industrialists planning to open plants in the area . |
| 5 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |
| 6 | The English-language feature film came of age in the 1930s first because of its singularity as a piece of entertainment and then because it prompted responses which were important in defining cultural positions generally . |
| 7 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |
| 8 | Its position as the Epic of the Romantic Age is still not beyond question , firstly because it is treated simply as a verse autobiography , and secondly because it combines poetry and philosophy . |
| 9 | Known as the Intrastat system , the data can be submitted by a computerised medium but only if it meets Customs specification requirements and has prior approval . |
| 10 | Poulantzas ' reply to this criticism is instructive , partly because it tells us more about pertinent effects themselves , but also because it casts light on his general approach . |
| 11 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 12 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 13 | All I could offer was a hatchback whose tyres puncture as soon as it catches sight of anything other than motorway . |
| 14 | ‘ As soon as it gets light I think all the hunters we can spare should go out , ’ said Grimma . |
| 15 | If the patient has a positive supporting reaction , the physiotherapist places his foot carefully towards the floor , grading the pressure it receives in order to reduce the automatic reaction of pushing down as soon as it makes contact . |