Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The exceptions relate particularly to those cases where the authority has a financial interest in the outcome , or where it applies standards to its own proposals different from those it applies to private sector applications .
2 Parliament adopted regulations in late August 1990 which a required foreign publication to obtain an annual permit if more than 300 copies were distributed in Singapore or if it carried articles on politics " in any country in south-east Asia " .
3 Thus , if the government receives tax payments from , or if it sells government debt to , the private sector the proceeds will act to reduce the money market 's cash position .
4 If it appears healthy , simply let it go , or if it needs attention , try to direct it into a clean dustbin , tie the lid on and take it to the vet .
5 However , it remains an open question whether the dust continues beyond about 100 metres , becoming fully compacted rock at 10 to 20 km , or whether it gives way to broken rock somewhere not far beyond 100 metres depth .
6 I mean that box on the left hand side there could be Ralph Gardener Community High School and where it says science or maths or whatever
7 The tenth of February , and where it says objectives , if you have any specific objectives then you can write those in but
8 It is called Fifth Street , and where it meets Blackhills Road is Horden Conservative Club .
9 It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms .
10 One box in Lincolnshire had the manifestations of a poltergeist or mischievous ghost apparent in the building but it was of a gentle nature and although it moved cups of tea and generally showed its mischievous attributes , it never hurt anybody and was not vicious or dangerous .
11 If it curbs strikes , fight it and if it creates jobs spurn it .
12 A a and if it says Intercity it then it then it really ought to be maroon or the
13 And if you turn over onto page four , and at last pick up both the graph and the figures that are shown there and if it helps members , I can also put up the figures on the I suspect not , I think there 's , it becomes a little small for people .
14 In general , if one individual is able to make its future actions plainer than another and if it derives benefit from doing so ( which does not seem implausible in a social context ) , then we should expect evolutionary change in the effectiveness of such signals .
15 And if it makes sense to punish at all , there is some point in trying to punish offenders at least roughly in proportion to the moral gravity of their offences .
16 Either way , the club remains legal and if it brings relief from pain on the greens then , say salesmen , it is worth every penny .
17 To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me .
18 Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with .
19 On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system .
20 Entry to this body was much sought after by wealthy young men , because of the prestige it conferred and because it guaranteed proximity to the Emperor .
21 The old system had fallen into disrepute because of its widespread use as a tax dodge , and because it encouraged conifer planting , but it is recognised that grants are not as effective .
22 And because it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly .
23 Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) .
24 Of course the system is expensive and while it saves paperwork it does not appear to reduce registration times as such .
25 What the set most lacks is the always recognizable quality of élan , and while it deserves investigation by Debussyans , it can not earn unqualified acceptance .
26 And while it cost Leeds 750,000 to re-sign Scott Sellars — a player who left Elland Road for Blackburn for around 35,000 — Collins says : ‘ Wilkinson is no fool .
27 Two dentists had been killed in their clinic by a shell just before the convoy arrived , and after it left shots were fired at the medical shift coming from Sarajevo to relieve the surgeons .
28 It included statements comparing SSE with inspection ; suggesting what aspects of school and schooling should come under scrutiny ( for example , observation by teachers of one another 's classroom performance ) ; questioning the capacity of SSE for probing institutional processes in depth , and whether it motivates change .
29 Digital data is digital data and whether it represents text , pictures or sound , it can be stored within the prescriptions of ISO 9660 on CD-ROM .
30 If you have to decide whether someone on your doorstep is genuine , do n't just look at his or her appearance but also at what that person is saying , how it is said , and whether it makes sense .
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