Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you act for a buyer , always go through the answers you receive to your preliminary enquiries , search and additional enquiries made of the local authority , marking each of these with a tick if it is satisfactory , or with a cross if it is not , or if it requires further elucidation . |
| 2 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
| 3 | One is whether a form is morphologically basic , or whether it needs extra material added by way of an additional rule . |
| 4 | A stream ends either when it reaches the edge of the grid or when it joins another stream . |
| 5 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 6 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 7 | A junior conveyancer is equally obliged to his or her own client , and if it takes that member of the profession a little longer , or if they need to consult with senior colleagues before agreeing to a particular course of action , then so be it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 10 | This is interesting both because it suggests that non-Hebbian forms of potentiation occur in the hippocampus , and because it provides implicit evidence for the existence of a diffusible extracellular messenger ( see text ) . |
| 11 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 12 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 13 | Whether they value their police service enough or not and whether it needs more money or not to do a good job or whether the authorities should take a look at how it is being run . |
| 14 | This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I accept the recommendation that the licences should not be revoked , but if it becomes public knowledge that the tools are to be used to make munitions , deliveries would have to stop at once . |
| 17 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 18 | It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cunnilingus is a marginal case but since it involves genital contact and may involve a form of penetration , there is a case for placing it within the more serious category . |
| 21 | I am quite sure that the Moderator and his colleagues will be able to withstand any theological attack directed by the Rev. Ian Paisley , but when it approaches physical violence this is another matter . |