Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal . |
| 2 | It would not be an exaggeration to stress the extent to which the nouveau roman has dictated the terms of critical discourse , nor to state that it still acts as the essential reference point in any definition of postmodern aesthetics . |
| 3 | We look so closely and with such moralistic scrutiny at the religious content of sects , and the habit of mind that imagines that it alone has the full and unique expression of the faith , that we fail to notice what they have to offer . |
| 4 | Sainsbury 's sponsored one of the nine categories — Press Advertising — and found that it also received a certificate in this category for its graduate recruitment campaign . |
| 5 | The point , so I thought , was to have one in case of emergency , and hope that it never came out of its pouch . |
| 6 | It was all-embracing and claimed that it alone spoke authoritatively for the people . |
| 7 | Place the egg whites and pinch of salt in a clean , large bowl and whisk until it nearly peaks . |
| 8 | IBM has been counting up its hangers-on and finds that it currently has some 40 OEMs doing things like boards and systems with the PowerPC chip . |
| 9 | While the fact that a phenomenon was perceived allows one to infer and assert that it actually occurred , the converse is not true : the fact that it was not perceived does not mean that it did not take place . |
| 10 | He wondered if she were telling the truth and decided that it hardly mattered . |
| 11 | Berni Miller , chief executive of the Farm Holiday Bureau , says she finds the report encouraging and feels that it broadly reflects the way the industry round the country is moving at the moment , although business in other regions is less seasonal than the West Country . |
| 12 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 13 | it describes the ways in which the definition of the family has changed , and considers whether it still needs to be reformed . |
| 14 | I take that as part of the Labour party 's approach to defence procurement , which is to tick off each individual project , factory or programme whenever it comes before the House and to say that it fully endorses it . |
| 15 | They had ceased to be shocked by nudity , and accepted that it now happened mostly on remote beaches where it need n't offend any villagers . |
| 16 | Perhaps she should buy a copy of Spare Rib , and see if it still carried adverts for consciousness-raising groups . |
| 17 | Check through the documentation of Wing Commander II and see if it really needs Expanded memory . |
| 18 | Walsh emphasizes how this has advanced women 's position in US psychology , and suggests that it still provides a needed ‘ anchor of outrageousness ’ ( Albin quoted in Walsh 1985 : 24 ) . |
| 19 | Add the sugar and stir until it too has dissolved . |
| 20 | The insurance fund has since doubled its reserves through a levy on its other members , but fears that it still has insufficient funds to cover its potential obligations . |
| 21 | Most d-i-y tiles probably start out with a plain metal straight-edge , but find that it quickly slews off line when scoring a shiny tile surface . |
| 22 | It has a well-defined head with compound eyes and antennae ; a thorax bearing three pairs of legs , the result of fusing together three segments ; and a segmented abdomen which , while it no longer has limbs on each segment , retains little stumps as signs that it once possessed them . |
| 23 | The problem with it , so far as we can see , is that if the political system is democratic and the state is relatively neutral then how is it that anyone could use the system in such a way as to ensure that it permanently advantaged them to the exclusion of other actors and interests in the system ? |