Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 2 | Tallis called , and as if it had understood its name the Green Jack stopped a moment , stared sadly at the woman with the horse . |
| 3 | And as if it had all been a bad dream , Tara wakes up soon after . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , there was a widespread uncertainty about what registration entailed , about whether they were eligible to register , and about whether it was relevant to their needs , as Cragg and Dawson ( 1984 ) also discovered . |
| 5 | Regardless of what company is involved in such matters and of whether it has a socialist supporter , a Conservative supporter or no political supporter at all , it is our duty as a House to enable everyone in the country to feel that his or her pension is well protected . |
| 6 | Navarra is I believe unique in that it provides a politically acceptable centre such that both the Basque Country and Catalonia would not find it embarrassing to attend a summer school there , and in that it is sufficiently endowed while remaining approachable to provide an alternative to Madrid , which would I imagine present far greater bureaucratic difficulty . |
| 7 | It is true that the Spanish-American novel has entered the mainstream of world literature in that it is informed by the major intellectual currents of our age , in that its exponents share the artistic and philosophical preoccupations of modern writers in general , and in that it has consciously sought and attained a universality that earlier Spanish-American fiction sometimes lacked . |
| 8 | It depends on whether participation is voluntary and on whether it was known to involve normative consequences . |
| 9 | But despite that it was n't the first camp up . |
| 10 | In other words , the treaty was simply introduced as a hindrance that had to be disposed of before other business could be tackled : the vote , negative as expected , was in fact not on the treaty itself , but on whether it ought to be discussed . |
| 11 | It is nonsense for us to debate such matters in Committee for an hour and a half and then , at the end of the debate , we vote not on the merits of the matter but on whether it has been considered . |