Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no idea who got that extra money or where it came from . |
| 2 | We do n't know what it is or where it came from , but there 's obviously something in it ! ’ |
| 3 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 4 | The cursor is left on the last instance found , if the search was successful , or where it started if the search failed . |
| 5 | There was probably a night service bus , but she had no idea where she could catch it , or where it stopped in Yonder . |
| 6 | Although individual consent was of central importance to Hobbes , he did not believe that the authority of law rested on the fact that it promoted a desirable objective or that it reflected a profound truth . |
| 7 | This has no application when the type of substantive error is that the tribunal was improperly constituted , or that it made an order which it was not empowered to make . |
| 8 | Did that exhibition suggest to you that Pop Art was a thrusting and lively activity with a relevance in contemporary art , or that it had become a comfortable and nostalgic moment in art history ? |
| 9 | The project was approved at ministerial level because it had been decided that the contract either did not significantly enhance Iraq 's military capability or that it had been signed before December , 1984 . |
| 10 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 11 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 12 | Thirdly , it is doubtful whether the General Strike could be regarded as the watershed in British labour history , which it is sometimes claimed to be , or that it changed in any significant form the pattern of industrial relations . |
| 13 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 14 | She had n't noticed before quite how dark his hair was , or that it curled slightly against his collar . |
| 15 | This means either that the utterance of [ 14a ] was not a case of genuine communication or that it did in fact achieve relevance . |
| 16 | Although the civil rights strategy could not have been adopted by republicans without the approval of the leadership of the IRA — and Roy Johnston stressed the importance of its involvement in the Maghera meeting of 1966 — — this does not mean that the army council initiated the setting up of NICRA or that it paid any detailed attention to the work being done by republicans within the association . |
| 17 | Society might judge that this severely reduced the welfare of citizens in remote areas or that it promoted regional dissent which reduced the sense of national unity . |
| 18 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |
| 19 | That 's right , if the sho if the top part of the shoe went that was the only you got a new pair or if or if it burst around the sole and the seam . |
| 20 | Peristalsis was considered ‘ failed ’ either if there was no contraction wave at all , or if it failed to traverse the entire length of the oesophagus , or if a simultaneous contraction occurred . |
| 21 | Parliament adopted regulations in late August 1990 which a required foreign publication to obtain an annual permit if more than 300 copies were distributed in Singapore or if it carried articles on politics " in any country in south-east Asia " . |
| 22 | If there is not , or if it went against him , what would his next move be ? |
| 23 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 24 | Or if it had , I had not been told . |
| 25 | If the United Kingdom were geographically more compact , or if it had a much smaller electorate and far fewer MPs to be elected , that might not prove very difficult . |
| 26 | Then this would never have happened , or if it had ( I could n't bring myself to unwish an experience which still washed over me with waves of delight when I remembered it ) at least Toby would have known what he was doing , his eyes would have been open . |
| 27 | It would have been different if the trapdoor had been the actual door of the furnace ; or if the coffin had been dragged by visible human operatives ; or if it had gone smoothly , as by the hand of God or the power of irresistible mechanical principles . |
| 28 | Even now , after this short while , she found it hard to remember if Johnny had truly been with her or if it had been only a dream . |
| 29 | The electric drill had not yet been invented or if it had , it had n't reached Scotland , and Hector bored holes in teeth with a fearsome foot-operated machine . |
| 30 | 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 . |