Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New studies show that targetting normal genes using viral and other systems to enter cells ( from marrow , the lung and gut , liver and skin ) may be easier than at first thought , and that DNA will function more or less normally once it gets into the cell . |
| 2 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |
| 3 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 4 | His position could be summed up as saying that so long as it has not been established beyond doubt that God does not exist , we should believe in God . |
| 5 | His head was cut off , buried on Tower Hill facing France in the belief that so long as it remained there , Britain would be safe from invasion . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 7 | Bell Labs notes that fault tolerance is common in hardware and in operating systems , but generally too costly for many software systems , and says that as far as it knows , these are the first general-purpose software modules , and they set a trend toward low-cost fault-tolerance in user-level software . |
| 8 | Then step back out , then in — and so on until it feels complete . |
| 9 | When the first bowl has filled , the water falls into the second and so on until it reaches the pool below . |
| 10 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 11 | Damp is acceptable so long as the cellar is not in use and so long as it does not rise above the ground floor dpc . |
| 12 | The Government has stated that , as well as continuing cover on non-vested markets for NCM , it will provide reinsurance for those contracts which are deemed to be in the ‘ national interest ’ for as long as the Government considers its existence essential to meet the reasonable needs of exporters and so long as it performs satisfactorily as a trading facility . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll believe that when I 've seen the boat 's log , ’ said Neil drily , ‘ and only then after it 's been checked by an expert . |
| 14 | As we drive to McDonald 's , Blake explains that the company can probably only come down to about one p.p.m. zinc , and only then if it spends a lot of money . |
| 15 | Absolon 's portrait thus ends with particular bathos when it transpires that he still can not escape the vulgar facts of the body 's nature , try as he might : This second instance of a marked word in the Miller 's Tale encourages a recall of the context of the first , Nicholas 's grabbing of Alison , and thus even before it has been dramatically explicated completes the second fabliau triangle , Nicholas — Alison — Absolon , which forms a symmetrical reflection of the first , Nicholas — Alison — John . |
| 16 | The imagination increases in size progressively and usually painlessly until it fills most of the abdomen . |
| 17 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 18 | THIS is a very long , very expensive and very highlevel book on human intelligence which will undoubtedly become , for many years to come , and as far as it goes , a standard book of reference , It has five parts , dealing respectively with the nature of intelligence and its measurement ; cognition , personality and intelligence ; society , culture , and intelligence ; the phylogeny and ontogeny of intelligence ; and a metatheory of intelligence . |
| 19 | And then soon after it went off and it 's never come on since . |
| 20 | And there is also the question of male bias in the construction of political agendas and the common expectation that the woman 's voice in politics should speak on ‘ family and women 's issues ’ and then only when it does not threaten the interests of men . |
| 21 | ‘ They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’ |
| 22 | The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do . |
| 23 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 24 | If the vendor does not agree to this , and sometimes even if it does , some advisers will require fees , perhaps of small amounts only , to be met by management , as evidence of their commitment to the project . |
| 25 | Well , it 's all Greek to me , but so long as it keeps him happy . ’ |
| 26 | The mapping out of social classes is valuable initially in providing a broad picture of society , but more importantly because it helps to explain the dynamics of social change . |
| 27 | Halliday 's analysis thus differs from Spitzer 's not only in using a more modern and technically advanced linguistics , but more importantly because it makes no attempt , to speak of , at interpretation . |
| 28 | Now light , presumably erm one of the reasons one chooses a light year as a unit or a distance is because it 's a convenient number , but also presumably because it does n't change very much with any physical factor . |
| 29 | As the years pass the disease takes a heavier and heavier toll not only physically but also emotionally as it progresses through the group . |
| 30 | Peter suggested keeping on until half an hour into the rush hour but no longer as it looked like being particularly crowded today . |