Example sentences of "[num] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the FNT announced on July 30 that it would not participate in this national dialogue because the government was reneging on the July 12 agreement by continuing to dismiss workers , especially in the textile sector . |
| 5 | The " consultations " failed , prompting all the main political groups in Kuwait to form a joint delegation which informed Shaikh Saad on March 30 that it was not prepared to join a new government before a timetable for political reform had been established . |
| 6 | The United States government announced on July 30 that it was to scale down or close 79 of its defence bases in Europe , following its January 1991 decision to halve its military presence in Europe . |
| 7 | The Bundesbank announced on Aug. 30 that it was to honour some DM250,000,000 of outstanding interest payments which were still due on a debt agreement reached in 1953 with its Western creditors . |
| 8 | The government had let it be known on Sept. 30 that it would not now call a general election in 1991 . |
| 9 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 10 | The Hezbollah organization announced on June 30 that it would take part in the elections , although it had not participated in any government formed since the Taif accord . |
| 11 | The UN had announced on Sept. 30 that it was suspending its humanitarian operations in southern Sudan . |
| 12 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 13 | The government of Papua New Guinea announced on Feb. 22 that it was about to hold peace talks with the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) aimed at ending the secessionist rebellion which began in 1988 and had claimed at least 100 lives . |
| 14 | The Israeli government confirmed on April 22 that it had provided the equivalent of some US$1,800,000 to support the move into the hospice . |
| 15 | The Spanish airline Iberia reported on March 22 that it had lost $276,000,000 during the year , and on the same day the Belgian government started a $563,000,000 rescue programme for the troubled national carrier Sabena . |
| 16 | The government confirmed on April 22 that it was pursuing a policy of devaluing the yuan in small , frequent steps , in an effort to boost exports and curb imports . |
| 17 | For its part the IRA announced on April 22 that it would suspend attacks on Protestant " death squads " , although attacks on UK government and security forces would continue . |
| 18 | The United States announced on July 22 that it would not renew a bilateral textile agreement with Myanma in protest at human rights violations and the junta 's refusal to hand over power to the NLD . |
| 19 | Although Boutros Ghali 's appointment was internationally welcomed , Israel 's Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir said on Nov. 22 that it would further diminish Israel 's standing in the UN . |
| 20 | Subsequently , however , the CNGSB announced on Oct. 22 that it intended to launch " a new and fierce terrorist campaign in the country " , but nevertheless qualified this by repeating that it would still support moves by " political parties , the working class , trade unions and everyone else " to find a political solution . |
| 21 | The USA announced on Dec. 22 that it also would lift a ban on sales of military technology to China enacted after the 1989 crackdown . |
| 22 | Meantime , the agreement under which Encore Computer Corp may switch to the Alpha from the Motorola Inc 88000 that it presently uses is apparently not a done deal yet . |
| 23 | Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army . |
| 24 | The EMD also announced on Dec. 12 that it was dissolving P-27 after the weekly paper Weltwoche revealed the identity of its head . |
| 25 | Standard Chartered said on June 12 that it was launching criminal proceedings in India to recover an estimated US$299,800,000 lost in the securities scandal . |
| 26 | Money poured in and work began in 1493 although it was to be a century before the work was completed ; this timescale explains the stylistic variation of the church , with elements of both Renaissance and Baroque architecture . |
| 27 | ( S. ) 417 that it was wrong in principle to impose a consecutive community service order on an offender already subject to an order if the effect was to create a combination of orders whose total length exceeded 240 hours . |
| 28 | Japan announced on Nov. 2 that it would reactivate a development loan programme for China which had been frozen after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 . |
| 29 | In a move virtually unprecedented among Gulf states , the government announced on July 2 that it was amending its trade laws to allow the establishment of wholly foreign-owned companies . |
| 30 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |