Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leigh 's retainer as a consultant has supported the space , which held five exhibitions until it closed this fall . |
| 32 | It had also hindered trade relations with the United States , where Congress 's 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment prohibited the US government from granting export credits to the Soviet Union until it allowed free emigration [ for December 1990 special waiver of Jackson-Vanik amendment see p. 37921 ] . |
| 33 | Information is also collected about the quality of teaching received , and although this has not yet been formally used in allocating money , one department did have part of its grant withheld for several months until it introduced clear teaching objectives . |
| 34 | But Luke only nodded , as if it made perfect sense . |
| 35 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 36 | I also asked if it affected sexual performance . |
| 37 | He leaned forward once again , subjecting her to the unnerving illusion of being pinned by his shadow , trapped and oppressed by it , as if it carried physical weight , composed of all that he felt for her , lust and contempt . |
| 38 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 39 | When viewing a house we were interested in buying , we asked the owner if it had rear access . |
| 40 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 41 | All experience showed that an attack had some prospect of success only if it had numerical superiority in a ratio of at least 3 : 1 . |
| 42 | UNTAC would only be successful , Boutros-Ghali stressed , if it had adequate human and financial resources . |
| 43 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 44 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 45 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 46 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 47 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 48 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 49 | The government of Taiwan announced on May 11 that the vessel was free to dock in the country but that it would not be allowed to return if it violated international law by making unauthorized broadcasts to the mainland . |
| 50 | John Redwood , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , saw no mileage in his current job as local-government minister if it meant non-stop council-bashing . |
| 51 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 52 | They would gladly put up with a certain level of pregnancy risk if it meant fewer side effects . |
| 53 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 54 | Cost her what it might , she would break off her engagement , and if it meant social ruin , so be it . |
| 55 | This was the first time he had used this mechanism to force through legislation rejected by parliament , and the ANC warned that it would nullify the legislation if it gained political power . |
| 56 | Firstly that Britain would never end immigration altogether ( even if it ended black immigration ) , because if it did so the economy might not survive its periodic labour shortages . |
| 57 | The commission would draft a new constitution to be put to a referendum , and if it won popular support , multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 58 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 59 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 60 | But it was the coming night that seemed to press down on Ruth ; there was a strange fear in her that the sun , if it sank this evening , might never rise again . |