Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
| 2 | But a report issued last year by the National Radiological Protection Board concluded that although it encouraged further research , there was no reason to link power cables with cancer . |
| 3 | But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it . |
| 4 | Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas . |
| 5 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 6 | The commission would draft a new constitution to be put to a referendum , and if it won popular support , multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 7 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 8 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 9 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 10 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 11 | Issi Abdul , six , clutches tightly onto his feeding bowl as though it contained liquid gold . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |