Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admits that he took the vehicle , but says that it was already damaged when he got in or that it was not damaged when he left the scene and that it must have been damaged by someone who took it later . |
| 2 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 3 | A patent , once granted , can be revoked if it is subsequently shown to fail to meet the requirements for patentability ; for example , that it was not novel on the priority date or does not have an inventive step , or if it was not granted to the person entitled to it . |
| 4 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 5 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 7 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 8 | It is not known if at this stage Sugar was earmarked for preservation , or whether it was simply put into storage along with hundreds of other Lancasters to await their fate . |
| 9 | The key question here — and it is not easy to answer — is whether Edinburgh , by employing Women in the period from the 1870s to the 1900s , was attracting more work than it otherwise would have from London and other publishers ; or whether it was merely managing to prevent the work leaving Edinburgh altogether for cheaper printing centres . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr. Gould the author of the Birds of Europe is about leaving this country for New Holland , or as it is now called Australia . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems . |
| 12 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 13 | The largest of these was the Forum of Trajan but the oldest is the Forum Romanum , or as it is often called , simply ‘ the Forum ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a wonderful goal , except that it is not going to be reached overnight . |
| 15 | This kind of chauvinism is , of course , perfectly normal coming from sections of today 's Conservative Party , except that it is normally directed at the ‘ Anti-British Broadcasting Corporation ’ . |
| 16 | That 's what I 'm doing , except that it 's not gon na look like that any more |
| 17 | [ Except that it was n't snowing , because this has to have been November . |
| 18 | In Grace Abounding nothing is said about his life as a soldier except that it was once preserved by the mercy of God when another man took his place as sentinel during a siege and was killed by a musket bullet . |
| 19 | The point being made is that although it is ultimately envisaged that the EC will be similar to the USA with each member country being akin to a state and it even being billed as the ‘ United States of Europe ’ , is it a reality when one considers differences in attitude , culture , language and even religion ? |
| 20 | I was aware of its existence , but had n't read it and did n't know any more about it than that it was about to become law . |
| 21 | ‘ Although if it 's still raining the ditch wo n't be too comfortable . |
| 22 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |
| 23 | I mean would , would , would n't you think it is a , a directive that if it 's not happening in your area you make it happen ? |
| 24 | There may be an advantage in laying down a procedure where the application is novel , and/or the parties believe that a particular approach is necessary and that if it is not stipulated an expert is likely to follow some other undesired procedure . |
| 25 | This combination of characters in Sivapithecus indicates that if it is indeed related to the orang-utan , characters like the straight shaft and convex deltoid plane that are present in the extant great apes must have arisen independently in the orang-utan and the African apes . |
| 26 | The company has not attempted to sell its products abroad , but feels that if it is ever to expand again , then overseas markets are the only feasible method . |
| 27 | For John Simon , it was ‘ so puny a play that if it were not extended in all directions by Dustin Hoffman 's life-giving performance , it would barely be discernible to the naked eye . |
| 28 | With that came a warning that if it were not paid within six months , he would serve three years extra . |
| 29 | ) In April 1190 Mozart was hoping for another court appointment under the new emperor , Leopold II , and he implored Puchberg to keep his financial disarray a secret , believing that if it were publicly known it would damage his chances of success . |
| 30 | maybe some joint reports with other colleagues in education , to look at some innovative work , erm , that if it was specifically ring fenced government grant , we can actually get our teeth into , that would provide a cost saving for governments in the future . |