Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ John 's method of working would be : ‘ Okay , this is in C , ’ and unless it had abnormal changes we just went for it . |
| 5 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 6 | the argument was continuous and as it developed both sides changed their positions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 11 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |