Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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1 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
2 | Most of the work is bespoke design and making where a client has definite requirements ; the brief may be very specific or it may be quite open . |
3 | It may be one that is large and far-reaching or it may appear relatively small and trivial but … ( of ) special significance for the person who makes it is that his choice will help to determine the pattern of his unique development over time . |
4 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
5 | Erm and er I was wondering if Freud did that or if that 's what Freud was saying , that , that , that religion by nature must be repressed or that a minority as the nature of minority is , is er it works harder when it 's repressed or it can become stronger . |
6 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
7 | It may be pleasant or it may be unpleasant . |
8 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
9 | Either that or it 's someone very clever . |
10 | So that did n't go down too well with our lot but it 's either that or it blow up all the time . |
11 | This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract . |
12 | Grassy plains and both open and mountainous deserts , gregarious where it is common . |
13 | For the rest , it is distasteful where it is not dull . |
14 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
15 | The searcher may go astray because either some supposed fact is wrong or it applies modus ponens in an irrelevant way , but it will never arrive at any result which is not a strict consequence of its start state . |
16 | This is of less importance but may confirm what was already clear or it may help to differentiate between two or more remedies which are equally close . |
17 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
18 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
19 | With a startled squawk a rook flew from one tree to another where it perched complaining loudly . |
20 | The proposal for a Rhyl relief road could mean yet another where it crosses the A525 . |
21 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
22 | and giving us tuition on real antique furniture , he does n't do anything in his shop erm after eighteen forty or it 's all more or less Georgian , very Georgian actually . |
23 | ‘ Is this where it hurts ? ’ |
24 | To date , LanOptics has used distributors such as Datarange Communications Ltd , but following the establishment of the UK company , it is now to sell direct where it feels this is more strategic . |
25 | But it was just the fact I suppose that maybe some of the the family had died out and the person that was was n't just quite clear where it was . |
26 | Soil mixtures provide the means for some types of adhesion : an inorganic soil may form a matrix with another or it may form a discreet layer to which another soil might adhere if it can not adhere to the base substrate . |
27 | And thirdly , conflict may be spontaneous or it may be organised . |
28 | " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ? |
29 | 280 that it may be an oppressive course to prosecute the driver of an unlicensed vehicle in a master-servant relationship , where the driver is the employee and not responsible for licensing the vehicle . |
30 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |