Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] it [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is found significantly more often in the coloured races , both male and female , and whether this is due to some actual racial difference in susceptibility , or whether it simply reflects some general difference in the social pattern of spread of the disease is not clear . |
| 2 | Time will show whether the training has long-term benefits — or whether it merely creates LRT junkies , capable of happiness only in an environment unnaturally charged with emotion and hooked on an expensive promise of love and everlasting life . |
| 3 | Corporate crime is crime irrespective of whether it is only punishable by an administrative body , or whether it merely violates individuals ' civil rights . |
| 4 | Any models between the points where the ball strikes the ground and where it eventually comes to land are hit by the flying cannon ball . |
| 5 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 6 | The visioncare business , which Pilkington has been nurturing for three years and where it now ranks in the world 's top three , increased its operating profits by £4.4 million to £18.8 million . |
| 7 | Honeywell says that the agreement is a long term one , and that it also plans to use Apple 's next generation Macintosh — the one that will use the PowerPC RISC processor , in future generations of the Electronic Library System . |
| 8 | IBM reckons the 970 achieves a SPECmark rating of 100.3 , making IBM the first to produce a RISC system which scores a century on the benchmark , and that it also does 100.9 transactions per second on the Transaction Processing Performance Council 's TPC-A benchmark . |
| 9 | It is true that home blood testing provides more accurate information than that available from urine tests , especially in patients with an abnormal renal threshold , and that it also provides information about everyday fluctuations . |
| 10 | This last point implies that psychoanalysis , as such , is not concerned with the truth or falsity of religious beliefs , and that it rather counteracts the earlier arguments about religious beliefs being neither justified by sense experience nor rational arguments . |
| 11 | I think myself that this was the case , and that it scarcely makes him very different from many other hard-working people . |
| 12 | It 's so easy to keep clean that and that it only wants wiping over , you know . |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 14 | The Polish government 's statistical office believes that the output of private industry ( excluding farming ) grew by 50% over the past year , and that it now accounts for 18% of national income , up from 11% in 1989 . |
| 15 | The company says that overseas royalties it has earned on behalf of the authors , artists and publishers it represents have increased five-fold in the last three years , and that it currently licenses its properties in 25 countries . |
| 16 | Now scientists are saying that the land itself is foreign and that it too has travelled vast distances across ancient oceans — at the rate of some 25 cm a year . |
| 17 | We know that it still has a poll tax element , that it will still need a register , and that it still does not relate to the ability to pay . |
| 18 | The 24-valve engine is appreciably noisier that its 12-valve predecessor and although it invariably sounds good , its insistence can be a little wearing . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard does offer multiprocessing on the 9000 Series 800 servers and although it already has multiprocessing desktops up and running in the labs , the company says it is still in the process of deciding whether to bring these to market sooner or later . |
| 20 | HP does offer multiprocessing on the 9000 series 800 servers and although it already has multiprocessing desktops up and running in the labs , the company says it is still in the process of deciding whether to bring these to market sooner or later . |
| 21 | And although it usually charges £92 a line for connections ( 15 line minimum ) , it reduced its charges last year , and will be charging £26 a line until at least the end of February . |
| 22 | Again , it 's a questin of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 23 | Again , it 's a question of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 24 | Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village . |
| 25 | However , the XE is not well supported by software houses , and although it still has a lot of games , most of these are very old . |
| 26 | It is hard work for most amateurs , using unaccustomed muscles , to double dig a whole plot , and although it undoubtedly improves fertility , the effort and perspiration always feels more justified when you understand why you are expending it — so here is the explanation . |
| 27 | They have to pay for plans such as the LRPPP , and if it chiefly benefits big energy users , pressure to switch to more people-oriented plans such as Reddy 's could mount . |
| 28 | If the quality of the counselling relationship is good it should prove more than enough to handle the outcome , and if it then assists the individual towards a resolution of emotional troubles , the short-term distress has been worthwhile . |
| 29 | A draft contract will provide for a 10% deposit , and if it then transpires that the buyer can not afford to pay this , it is customary to negotiate it down to 5% , but not usually below . |
| 30 | Any well-structured course can build in progression where necessary and if it so wishes restrict the choice of menu on offer . |