Example sentences of "and [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies .
2 Meanwhile , it was reported on Sept. 26 that the World Bank had authorized the creation of a special facility to grant concessional credit to help lower-middle income countries to re-settle migrant workers fleeing Iraq and Kuwait , and that it would advance disbursements from the Bank 's soft loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) , to the poorest countries .
3 There was hope that it would be a two-way process and that it would have benefits for the school .
4 THE Italian computer-maker , Olivetti , yesterday in Ivrea revealed that its losses for 1992 had jumped by 40 per cent and that it would ask shareholders to invest a further 900 billion lire ( £392 million ) through a capital increase .
5 They were people who thought It was important — and that it could make money .
6 Other than that , it was important that she should look interesting so that even if what she said was dull the audience would not be bored ; that the outfit should take account of the long range view — jewellery or other small items were irrelevant — and that it should draw attention to her face .
7 It meets , and even surpasses , all the criteria laid down by the World Cup committee after the inaugural event in 1987 ; that there should be healthy commercial environment , that the event should be well supported and that it should take place in only one country .
8 There has been some difference of opinion as to what that case decided , but there is no dispute that the court held that the postponement of the consultation process with the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge until three years after sentence was unlawful , and that it should take place as soon as possible after conviction .
9 The proponents of this approach to policy claim that it will encourage a more stable background in which the private sector can make its own investment and spending plans with greater certainty about future government policy ; that it will prevent abrupt and damaging shifts of policy ; and that it will make government manipulation of monetary policy for electoral purposes more difficult .
10 Computer Reseller News says that the second generation SCSI , SCSI-2 , will be added by the Austin , Texas team and that it will provide transfer rates of up to 10Mbps .
11 If the truth is at last unavoidable , it ran , and if it must bring consolation in its train , then surely there should be no need to dread its disclosure ?
12 The CDP has hitherto resisted such a proposal on the grounds that it would represent direct competition with university applicants who might thereby fail to see the polytechnics as a clear alternative and because it would restrict student choice to a limited number of institutions .
13 But there were serious objections to using the videotaped interview as a complete substitute for the child 's evidence in chief at the trial , because of the unsatisfactory nature of the questioning and because it would cause difficulties for the prosecution .
14 The wedding had to be postponed because she became ill , and before it could take place , the King dissolved Parliament and revoked its laws .
15 Procedural directions should include provision for the publication of the expert 's decision , and whether it should give reasons ; and it is obviously desirable to set a timetable for submissions and a decision .
16 Perhaps the most useful distinction is to think of other disciplines as studying something else through discourse ; whereas discourse analysis has discourse as its prime object of study , and though it may take excursions into many different fields , must always be careful to return to the main concern .
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