Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It fits that account better than it fits others , including a probabilistic account of which a bit more will be said .
2 I see my job as a county councillor as one of running the county council so that it delivers services to the people cost effectively and efficiently .
3 By " saying " things I do not mean simply that men talk about what they do , but that all their social behaviour is " coded " so that it makes statements about what the social situation is and where the actor is positioned in that social situation .
4 I have talked about interpretation which is accommodating so that it yields implications for language teaching .
5 Extending the existing ban on installing non-room-sealed appliances in bathrooms , so that it covers bedrooms as well .
6 Extending the existing ban on installing non-roomsealed appliances in bathrooms , so that it covers bedrooms as well .
7 On those assumptions the state can be neutral only if it creates conditions of equal opportunities for people to choose any conception of the good , with an equal prospect of realizing it .
8 Known as the Intrastat system , the data can be submitted by a computerised medium but only if it meets Customs specification requirements and has prior approval .
9 But planning officials and Labour councillors insist the scheme will works only if it gives shoppers maximum access to the road .
10 Making a pressed flower picture as a way of welcoming someone into their new home is both a charming and original idea , especially if it uses flowers from their previous garden .
11 Barak hated violence , especially if it involved guns .
12 If one can not deduct preceding taxation on the same object , the taxes due on a relatively low priced painting often exceed the profit margin , especially if it concerns goods offered on consignment .
13 If access to the toilet is difficult , perhaps because it has steps , or the room is too small for a wheelchair and the carer to manoeuvre in , he may have to be provided with a commode .
14 Socialists and feminists oppose this move , not only because it enables landlords to evict tenants easily and raise rents , but because they recognise that the demise of this sector is , broadly speaking , a result of the decreasing profitability of investment in this sector ( Merrett , 1979 , p.281 ) , not of legislation concerning rent control and tenants ' rights .
15 Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable .
16 On Nov. 25 , 1989 , a new block at the Greifswald nuclear power station was closed down before it began operations and in May 1990 the entire station was temporarily closed on safety grounds .
17 Barry Quirke , chairman of the Institute of Statisticians , said : ‘ We would be very keen to support any initiative to set up an independent committee , so long as it has teeth .
18 But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation .
19 Looking at stress generally , and not necessarily as it affects nurses , the following might be considered as potential trouble spots :
20 Her concern with poverty , especially as it affected children , led to her writing The London Child ( 1927 ) and The Child Grows Up ( 1929 ) , studies of working-class life .
21 So the first day finished with me lying sleepless , listening to that familiar music coming from below as it had years before , the jazz records my mother used to play .
22 The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks .
23 Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century .
24 Introducing research into the curriculum is justifiable provided that it is used to expand the student 's intellectual horizons , and not because it propels students towards becoming embryonic researchers .
25 Are we to conclude , therefore , that the Anglican Church 's neglect of purification ritual for women is not because it believes women to be ‘ clean ’ , but because it would rather such matters were n't mentioned at all ?
26 The extreme flexibility of the Course allows part-time students to change later to a full-time mode , just as it allows full-timers to drop down to part-time study .
27 Just as it costs peanuts to get oil out of a hole in the ground , it costs peanuts to put rubbish into one — so long as the oil , or the space , lasts .
28 Selection favoured beaver genes that made good lakes for transporting trees , just as it favoured genes that made good teeth for felling them .
29 Just when it seemed things were going his way again this has happened . ’
30 But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators .
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