Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Regardless of what company is involved in such matters and of whether it has a socialist supporter , a Conservative supporter or no political supporter at all , it is our duty as a House to enable everyone in the country to feel that his or her pension is well protected . |
| 32 | The hard copy volume is deleted from the hard copy directory regardless of whether it has been accepted or rejected . |
| 33 | Indeed , the courts will take a pragmatic view of the complexity of the information and the employee 's ability to remember it as a test of whether it has been wrongfully used/disclosed by him . |
| 34 | For older women , there is a question of whether it has any relevance at all . ’ |
| 35 | the idea that every form of avoidance of expenditure quite indifferently of whether it consists of really wasteful expenditure or of a capital investment in developing the nation 's productive resources , is alike ‘ economy ’ … . |
| 36 | But , it has given no indication of whether it intends to acquire or dispose of any data processing activities . |
| 37 | it will be , it will be nice to get there sort of before it gets dark would n't it on the other side ? |
| 38 | If a vehicle is abandoned in a car park the University reserves the right to have the vehicle removed and/or disposed of as it sees fit . |
| 39 | ‘ But that would reduce with A-T as it complicates the treatment . |
| 40 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 41 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 42 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 43 | It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work . |
| 44 | as if it reflected something in herself . |
| 45 | She said her name timidly , as if it felt strange to address her so . |
| 46 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 47 | ‘ Otherwise it looks as if it belongs to me . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ Such luxurious hair , a face that looks as if it belongs to an angel … but of course , ’ he murmured , ‘ you kiss like an expert . ’ |
| 49 | It looks as if it belongs in some fairy-tale . ’ |
| 50 | She swallowed as if it caused her pain , her face screwed up . |
| 51 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 52 | The prison did little to lighten their mood : grey frowning walls with a few sombre buildings peeping above them , and a black gateway with an arch which yawned as if it wished to devour any unfortunate who approached it . |
| 53 | ‘ It was as if it knew exactly where to go . ’ |
| 54 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 55 | But the voice that had spoken waited , as if it knew that eventually Creggan would speak the truth . |
| 56 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 57 | In the far corner , the cat cowered as if it knew it was in the presence of death . |
| 58 | ‘ What brings you here ? ’ said Aurora again , breathily , as if it mattered , flicking out the light and sitting again with practised gaucherie . |
| 59 | ‘ He got it wrong Wigs by Clarkson as if it mattered . |
| 60 | The person to whom it is retailed says , ‘ as if it mattered which platform ! ’ ) |