Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 2 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 3 | With these five factors examined and the results of preliminary thinking kept in mind , the teacher or the planning team will be able to settle down to detailed planning of the specific learning sequence in question , whether it is a short piece of structured work with a work-sheet , tape-slide sequence or programmed unit , or whether it occupies several weeks of varied work . |
| 4 | ( If you use a broadcast conversation — for example a TV chat show — remember that although it shares many features with private conversation it will also have an important difference : that the participants are speaking for an audience as well as for themselves . ) |
| 5 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 6 | In response to further letters in A Quarterly , the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents ' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen , ‘ the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons ’ . |
| 7 | The basic problem for the Emperor was that while France needed Britain it was not at all clear to British statesmen that their country had any need of France — except when it suited British interests . |
| 8 | The Office is currently considering the establishment of a computer-readable data archive ( CRDA ) , and although it has few answers to the problems facing the world archival community in such matters , I hope that it is in the position to ask some interesting questions . |
| 9 | If it be light , dry and free from bugs , if it be central in position , and if it contain three rooms , it will be eagerly sought for and hard to find . |
| 10 | The search for spirituality can become diverted also into cults or fascination with the occult , and if it avoids these dangers it can become simply another form of aesthetic experience and move away from the major religious traditions , so that the arts become a kind of substitute for religion . |
| 11 | Bill has plenty more photographs and stories about his walk and if it proves popular hopes to bring out a hardback guidebook . |
| 12 | ‘ John 's method of working would be : ‘ Okay , this is in C , ’ and unless it had abnormal changes we just went for it . |
| 13 | And because it allows more tests in less time , mathematical modelling has become an essential tool for aircraft designers . |
| 14 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 15 | And while it supports common languages well , its compilers lack the maturity of Unix compilers . |
| 16 | Planning Permission depends on the size of the work and whether it affects other priorities . |
| 17 | This early class endured a miserable existence in damp , cramped circumstances and when it outgrew these premises , it moved into a building in Gem Street which although much larger was equally gloomy , dark and ugly . |
| 18 | the argument was continuous and as it developed both sides changed their positions . |
| 19 | But if it involves simple images , there 's no need to buy the most complicated package . |
| 20 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 21 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 22 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 23 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |
| 24 | But while it proposed interim restrictions on the consumption of HCFCs — used for making foam insulation — it stepped back from proposing to outlaw their production in the EC , from where they could still be exported to developing countries as a substitute to the much more harmful CFCs ( chlorofluorocarbons ) in refrigerators and air conditioners . |
| 25 | It may be argued that there is nothing too morally reprehensible about this in many areas of our public life : but when it affects life-and-death issues , such as Northern Ireland , the idea of making legislation on internment , for example , subject to back-room bargains struck at Westminster , is one which would stick in the throats of many voters . |
| 26 | Rubin , the designers of all Soviet nuclear submarines , says leakage of plutonium from corroded nuclear torpedoes is not expected to start until 1995 or 1996 , but when it starts strong currents could disperse the contamination over distances of up to 100 kilometres . |
| 27 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 28 | Now we know that such a deformation can not take place in a polymer , for if it did some atoms would move relative to their topological nearest neighbours by far more than covalent forces would allow , dissociation would occur ( chain scission ) and the nature of the polymer would change . |
| 29 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |