Example sentences of "it [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took as our starting point the fact that whether you like it or whether you do n't like it , it is a fact of life . |
| 2 | Oh yeah and this chap inherited the money off his mother and father and er , I do n't know whether he drunk it or whether he gambled it away , but he lost the business so that , and that was the beginning of the breaking up in my er opinion of the fleck shops like , you know . |
| 3 | Yes he 's built a business up and I 'm not denying him that er or anything at all , But somehow now er I do n't know whether the wheel is turning too fast for him to co keep up with it or whether it 's erm oh never mind the erm the industry of the locality , providing the money stakes a I know every business has got to pay for itself and that we we 're not , If this quarry was on the down grade and er er somebody had come to us said , look unless you take a drop in your wages er we ca n't survive that would be a different issue altogether . |
| 4 | The are too few beds in the Health Service , whether we like it or whether we do n't and what they 're trying to do is force people to use the private sector . |
| 5 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 6 | Or whether she opened it or whether she was in the front bedroom with something behind the door I du n no but |
| 7 | Erm but I think she 's stopped , I do n't know whether Doreen still does it or whether retired from it . |
| 8 | Changing the technology in an organisation may have no impact unless there is a willingness on the part of staff to adapt to it or unless the operating processes take account of the increased speed of communications that new technology can allow . |
| 9 | It is far better and essentially less embarrassing for such education to be given at school than within the family , even if it could be certain that parents would give it or that their children would listen . |
| 10 | But I do n't think we had it or that it would have made any difference if we had . ’ |
| 11 | They may chug along believing that structure is all there is to it or that a combination of structure and roles is the answer . |
| 12 | ‘ did , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority ’ Means that this offence is not committed if the accused believed that he had lawful authority to do it or that he would have had the owner 's consent if the owner knew of his doing it and the circumstances of it . |
| 13 | Fears were also expressed by some passengers that the tunnel might collapse while they were travelling through it or that they might suffocate from the lack of air because it was one and three quarter miles long ! |
| 14 | The Act provides that it is a defence to an action brought under section 2 that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it or that he voluntarily assumed the risk thereof ( though a person employed as a servant by a keeper of the animal is not to be treated as accepting voluntarily risks incidental to his employment ) . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister believes that employers should provide it or that women should be able to afford it . |
| 16 | to advise the Secretary of State on such matters concerned with the curriculum for maintained schools as he may refer to it or as it may see fit |
| 17 | to advise the Secretary of State on such matters concerned with examinations and assessment as he may refer to it or as it may see fit |
| 18 | Depending on how they feel the first time , they may carry on if they enjoy it or if it seems to block out other worries and problems . |
| 19 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 20 | Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful . |
| 21 | One almost has to wonder if this account has any element of truth to it or if it was some public relations yarn to spur interest in the film . |
| 22 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 23 | She did n't know what that prayer was but she wondered if they meant it or if to most of them it was … just words and phrases . |
| 24 | See if you can actually quantify it or if it 's irrational . |
| 25 | So if if nobody was looking for it or if they were n't used to the machines , examining the machines , they would n't know it was there . |
| 26 | Wilde ( 1988 ) does accept that like physiological arousal feelings of subjective risk are not necessarily focal in the driver 's consciousness but he claims that there is continual level of subjective risk which the driver will become aware of if asked to report on it or if there are sudden changes in level . |
| 27 | So sixteen to the three quarters is find the fourth root and cube it or if you like cube sixteen and then find the fourth root . |
| 28 | So when we , you see there 's no good putting anything in there erm or doing anything with it if we 're not going to use it or if it 's got ta come down in another year or two . |
| 29 | Well , you might think that you have to re-input the camp on , but you do n't , the camp on only cancels itself if you choose to ignore it or if it matures . |
| 30 | But it or if I were to be thinking I 'd say , Is n't he . |