Example sentences of "[prep] it they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that had they known of it they would have been even more exigent . |
| 2 | On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system . |
| 3 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 4 | In the past , firms not authorised for investment business could feel fairly secure in the knowledge that if they did stray into it they would only be investigated in the event of a complaint . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose if the local police thought there was anything in it they would be in touch with you as a matter of course . ’ |
| 6 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 7 | And then obviously if you have more weight in it they 'll be really bushy . |
| 8 | The way to make NoS popular was to put lots of people in it They could be used to bring home the sort of things which should be exposed and campaigned about in the paper — like housing conditions , or unemployment . |
| 9 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 10 | But you see they did n't know the truth of the exploration , but if the Government was fifty fifty in it they 'd be entitled to know the exact amount and quantity and what was underneath your feet . |
| 11 | Without it they would n't exist . |
| 12 | Their digging has cleared right down to the gravel tidy — without it they would have rendered the undergravel filter quite useless . |
| 13 | that help without it they would n't . |
| 14 | I 'm glad you said that cos if too many people said they would have gone on started business without it they might drop the scheme . |
| 15 | Without it they might have driven past the track and searched on fruitlessly . |
| 16 | They are choosing to do this because they have learned that without it they can not sustain their good intentions . |
| 17 | The labelling matters ; without it they can not rebuild the alien 's spaceship . |
| 18 | However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again . |
| 19 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 20 | if they wanted to come along to it they could |
| 21 | You ca n't even he probably , he , he could n't , you do n't have to it they can give you |
| 22 | If you 're not sure if you ca n't remember try C because it 's more likely to be right so you 're going to get more marks Oh he 's got this right and they wo n't be putting careless on it they 'll say Oh he knows what he 's doing here . |
| 23 | But I think that erm once they 'd got started on it they would find it very beneficial in terms of erm improving their kind of over-all general image . |
| 24 | If people had to put their hands in their own pockets and had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’ |
| 25 | Tribunal chairman Mr Brown said : ‘ The cause of the trouble is free alcohol if people had to pay for it they would not drink so much . ’ |
| 26 | If people must pay for it they will take its effects into account in making private decisions and there will no longer be market failure . |
| 27 | Now , part of that might just have purely the ritual that 's associated with things like coronations and investitures , but surely if people had felt so strongly about it they would n't have turned out in such numbers , er to support her . |
| 28 | ‘ I wish I could go myself but if she complains and London hears about it they 'll put a stop on me doing anything . |
| 29 | Or the fall out about it they could still all three prove . |
| 30 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |