Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [det] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CIA-backed contra war was an inconsequential affair in world terms , although it brought much destruction and suffering to the Nicaraguans themselves . |
| 2 | Although it shares many features and concepts with the R22 , the R44 is an entirely new design . |
| 3 | UEFA ARE ready to listen to radical new proposals for a European super league , but only if it benefits all clubs and not just the rich elite . |
| 4 | UEFA are ready to listen to radical new proposals for a European Super League , but only if it benefits all clubs and not just the rich elite . |
| 5 | ‘ Because each shaft is slightly thinner , hair starts to feel as if it has less body and volume , ’ says trichologist Philip Kingsley . |
| 6 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 7 | Research evidence suggests that old-fashioned formal teaching of grammar had a negligible , or , because it replaced some instruction and practice in composition , even a harmful , effect on the development of original writing . |
| 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 | Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation . |
| 10 | details of any SPRs to which the SSR responds and whether it closes these SPRs or just replies to them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition . |
| 13 | There are miles of computer imagery in 2010 to fill the video screens on the Leonov , then taken for granted , though it involved much work and Sony technology . |
| 14 | Young skin is less able naturally to protect itself as it contains less melanin and therefore has less tanning ability . |
| 15 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 16 | Freezing food is kinder to the environment and to our health , for it destroys fewer vitamins and does not require chemical additives . |
| 17 | That is a bad thing in itself , for it means less competition and more wasted resources . |