Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Or if it had , I had not been told . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jenna had never known if that last advice had come from her mother or if it had been her father 's order . |
| 11 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 12 | He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off . |
| 13 | Then Blackadder could not think whether he had noticed the screen naturalist because his mind was primed with Ash 's image , or whether it had worked independently . |
| 14 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |
| 15 | And I did n't know whether the letter was from Canon Wheeler or whether it had anything to do with his going to Medewich . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He did n't know where or when it had happened . |
| 18 | And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells . |
| 19 | But the distance from where the tank now sat blocking the way at the head of the stairs , and where it had to be , at the end of the landing , was too great for them to shift it . |
| 20 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 21 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 22 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 23 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
| 24 | It was only some years later that Jacques learned of the Board 's initiatives and that it had failed because members of the county council had been deeply suspicious of the radicalism associated with liberal adult education in the industrial areas of the county . |
| 25 | Although no opinion could be expressed about the propriety of interventions in particular cases — the enquiry was not a court of law — the report recognized that sexual abuse was no myth , and that it had indeed occurred in Cleveland in many cases . |
| 26 | Britain was granted a specially lenient deal because Environment Minister Lord Caithness argued that it could not fit FGD in the required timescale , and that it had domestic high sulphur coal which it ‘ had to use ’ whereas other countries relied mainly on imported low sulphur coal . |
| 27 | The president claimed that only defensive weapons had been supplied to Iran and that it had all been legal . |
| 28 | The main thrust of all the writings was to show that Bonapartism was for France the natural system of government and that it had been so since the Revolution . |
| 29 | I complained mightily , only to be told that the stone table was a well-intentioned afterthought , erected in recent times , and that it had been removed to restore the henge to its original form . |
| 30 | Of one thing she was convinced , however , and that was that she had actually regressed to a previous life and that it had not simply been the work of her imagination . |