Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 the stating of the price without making it clear , if it is the case , that it applies only to cash customers or that it does not apply to part-exchange deals or applies only in certain circumstances or does not apply in certain other circumstances ;
2 A blank suggests either that the shoe is suitable but not necessarily recommended for the purpose , or that it does not have a feature .
3 What is much less clear is that it is the answer to all problems , or that it has even solved the problems its proponents themselves recognized .
4 Penelope 's way home took her along St Basil 's Terrace , or if it had not done she would have arranged her journey to include it , even if it had meant a slight detour .
5 Now the especially if it is colourless or if it has n't got a smell , you think ooh I 'm not putting that down .
6 Some of the changes were felt to be long overdue , such as a scale 3 second in department for English , and it was not always clear whether the appraisal had been the driving force behind a particular change or whether it had simply brought some long-standing problems to urgent attention .
7 I do n't know whether it 's deafness or whether it does n't register that 's what I mean , you see .
8 Now , I do n't know whether that 's because i in your house there is n't a husband or a partner , or whether it did n't occur to you to say we , whether you always think of it as I or whether he 's out winning bread or you know , wha whatever it is , but
9 Except that it does n't work like that .
10 It is similar to the scale bar on a typewriter , except that it does not indicate the widths of the margins on each side of the typing line .
11 The first five notes of Clemens 's bass are indeed those of the plainsong eighth-tone Magnificat , but his superius is identical with that of Sermisy 's ‘ C'est une dure despartie ’ except that it does not follow Sermisy 's repeat of the first two phrases and does repeat his last phrase .
12 ‘ Conveyance ’ means any conveyance construed or adapted for the carriage of a person or persons whether by land , water or air , except that it does not include a conveyance constructed or adapted for use only under the control of a person not carried in or on it , and ‘ drive ’ shall be construed accordingly .
13 In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) .
14 I have no regrets about the divorce — except that it did n't happen sooner .
15 The statement of 12 January 1987 was completely consistent with Zaidie 's evidence on incidents ( a ) to ( e ) , except that it did not mention a threat in connection with incident ( d ) .
16 The large government service organisation consulted accepted that although it had not needed to recruit a team yet , ‘ we may do ’ .
17 In a climate where what is thought is less important than that it does not deviate from what it is ‘ correct ’ to think , the use of grids can illuminate the unique aspects of individual insight .
18 There is a childlike belief at the Foreign Office that if it does not admit to the existence of MI6 , foreign governments will believe Britain does not spy on them .
19 Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display .
20 And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered .
21 In the Western Fells region covered by the FRCC Scafell , Dow and Eskdale Guide , Al Phizaclea continues to explore nooks and crannies with the philosophy that if it does n't move and is n't already in the guide then it must be climbed .
22 One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it .
23 I think if it becomes clear that if it does n't happen in February we 're going to have to really reappraise the situation ,
24 USL is worried that if it does n't act now , such a practice may become more widespread .
25 So before SuperSparc corrals all the business , he 's sending Sun messages in the press that if it does n't buy HyperSparc — also known as Pinnacle — he 's going to turn round and do the Alpha for DEC .
26 Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion .
27 ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think .
28 The DIY company argues that if it had n't opened , it would indirectly be discriminating against the mainly female staff employed on that day .
29 The most simplistic answer to critics of the lobby is that if it did not exist , politicians and journalists would have to invent it .
30 Some doubting townsfolk had their reservations , so Thomas offered that if it did not have the desired effect he would forego his fee .
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