Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dirty beatnik and he 'd turn me out if it was n't for Maggie and if it was n't for the painting , and I 'd go , anyway , if it was n't for Maggie . |
| 2 | I thought — it was silly I know , but I thought perhaps seeing Aubrey had reminded you of Madeleine and that it was going to be as awful as it was when you came back from England after that holiday . |
| 3 | Grove also said that Pentium was on schedule to be introduced at the end of March and that it will be ‘ aggressively ’ priced . |
| 4 | The casket had been specially made to the measurements of Osiris and when it was his turn to get inside it was exactly right for him . |
| 5 | A pilot scheme is operating in the north-east of England and if it is successful it could be introduced to Ulster . |
| 6 | It was equally clear , however , that an amendment to abolish capital punishment would be moved in the course of the proceedings of [ sic ] the Bill in the House of Commons and that it would be strongly pressed by a substantial number of Government supporters . |
| 7 | There was no sign of Carrie and although it was milking time the cows were still in the field . |
| 8 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 9 | and , and going , and they went er it went out in , off to er some of these islands off er rocks and that , tour of Malta and that it was superb ! |
| 10 | The song was written out of profound emotion by Morrissey , a Mancunian who feels that the particularly horrific crime it describes must be borne by the conscience of Manchester and that it must never happen again . |
| 11 | We conclude that DP-1 is a component of DRTF1/E2F and that it is present in all DRTF1/E2F DNA-binding complexes in F9 EC cell extracts . |
| 12 | There then followed a long period of muddle and confusion not helped by the fact that no one had a recent photograph of Blake and that it was a Saturday evening . |
| 13 | No reasonable doubt can exist that the School will attain under his supervision a much higher rank in the estimation of the Inhabitants of Stockport and that it will prove of very great importance and advantage to its community . |
| 14 | Baker also announced that the USA would enter into a direct dialogue with Vietnam over the issue of Cambodia and that it might be prepared to provide humanitarian aid to the SOC government . |
| 15 | Others say that Tethlis grasped the Sword of Khaine and that it writhed in his grip and started to come free , and that the king was cut down by his own bodyguard who feared the consequences of Aenarion 's fatal weapon being unleashed once more upon the world . |
| 16 | In a statement published on Jan. 26 the movement said that " dialogue was impossible " with Taya and that it was forced to fight with every means to bring democracy to Mauritania . |
| 17 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the United States still appears to be at war with Vietnam and that it is blocking all aid and trade in the International Monetary Fund and World bank and through misuse of the COCOM regulations ? |
| 18 | Another suggests that Dom Pérignon spent several years in the Benedictine monastery at Alcántara in Spain and that it was he , not the monks of Santiago de Compostela , who brought the cork to Hautvillers . |
| 19 | The proposal foundered on British and American fears that the Soviet Union wanted , for its own purposes , to provoke another civil war in Spain and that it would seek to manipulate any Security Council debate to that end . |
| 20 | The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence were acutely aware that the Republic of South Africa is the sole stable country in Africa ; that its government is opposed to the increasing presence of the USSR and China in Africa and that it controls the sea route to the Indian Ocean where the USSR has mounted a powerful naval challenge . |
| 21 | It had been a long , slow journey from Odessa and although it was already 1am there were still many more official forms to fill out before their new life in Israel could begin . |
| 22 | Editor , — Gary P Bray draws attention to the fact that paracetamol is a common cause of morbidity and death in Britain and that it is the most common reason for intensive care for fulminant hepatic failure and liver transplantation . |
| 23 | Is my hon. Friend aware that my constituency is extremely attractive geographically for countries making inward investment in Britain and that it has prospered from such inward investment ? |
| 24 | Dividend growth last year was 10.3 p.c. in France and although it is expected to slow in 1992 , will recover to similar levels in 1993 , according to Mr Rooney . |
| 25 | The Plastics Waste Management Institute ( PWMI ) of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe recently set out to discover how much plastic is consumer in Europe and where it ends up . |
| 26 | Bulgaria , which had recognized Macedonia in January [ see pp. 38703 ; 38734 ] , amended its position in February by stating that full diplomatic relations would be established only if the republic officially declared that there was no Macedonian minority in Bulgaria and that it had no territorial claims on Bulgaria . |
| 27 | The 1950s was the golden age of interest-group theory in America and if it could " explain " American politics then there was the tempting presumption that it could do the job of making sense of British politics as well . |
| 28 | It simply stated that Mr. Cox was a long term member of the Communist Party and prominent in C.N.D. and that it was desired to investigate his activities to ascertain whether the Communist Party was manipulating C.N.D. in a clandestine way . |
| 29 | Such a project was tried in Wales and though it did identify cases , logistical difficulties in community health care made the rate of detection unacceptably low . |
| 30 | Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House . |