Example sentences of "[subord] indeed it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The rigid application of ‘ zoning ’ policies ( where indeed it continues ) can have a very damaging effect . ’
2 But in fact it was too late , if indeed it had ever been possible after 1950 , for Britain to assert its will on the Six , especially upon France .
3 Maybe , thought Jaq , that was where the Callidus experiment had come unstuck … if indeed it had come unstuck .
4 The Cornish lands , however , do not fit into the normal pattern of tenures , for demesne exploitation there had been abandoned before 1300 , if indeed it had ever existed ( 76 , pp.10–11 ) .
5 When she regained her balance and looked around he — if indeed it had been he — had vanished .
6 The rationale is that such behaviour may make life intolerable ; and that , if indeed it does , the offended partner is entitled to say that the marriage has broken down .
7 Much more evidence needs to be uncovered , if indeed it exists , much more work to be done even in available sources before the origins and development of this sort of muftilik can be said to have been fully studied .
8 Too many of them treat aggression as an innate drive in the individual of the species , so that society enters the picture merely as a modifying influence — if indeed it enters at all .
9 Unless perhaps a certain period has already elapsed since that episode , if indeed it occurred .
10 Although it goes against the grain to say this , the exercise is valuable , if indeed it has the effect of providing an accurate version of a distinguished person 's world view .
11 In most areas , only bulls with small ivory survive , a fact which bodes ill , genetically speaking , for the future of the species — if indeed it has any future in the wild at all .
12 Hearing a BBC broadcast on 30 January , both Hunter and Stirling were worried that Jalo might have been evacuated , as indeed it had .
13 There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University .
14 It occurred to him , as indeed it had occurred many times before , that commitment to one woman had as its inevitable corollary a lack of commitment to all the others .
15 The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances .
16 She is , of course , a parody of her pale , former Habsburg self , but Gironella 's title , La Reina Negra , suggests a range of different resonances , as indeed it does in English .
17 A regular pattern of narrow lanes gave a special character to the Shambles at the eastern edge of the market place , as indeed it does today , and narrow street frontages and long gardens and alleys preserved the medieval property divisions of the old burgage plots .
18 In other words , the preamble may continue to be used as before , as indeed it has .
19 In the summer before the crash , the dollar seemed ready to topple ( as indeed it did after Black Monday ) ; in the spring of 1991 it is soaring .
20 The agricultural crisis was bound to intensify , as indeed it did .
21 This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did .
22 The river , as indeed it turned out to be , was wreathed in wispy tendrils of mist .
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