Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was affecting Debenham more than most because it is in Debenham that the River Deben is first starting out on its course . |
| 2 | It 's just hitting you harder than most because it 's taken you longer than the rest of us to discover the joys and the agonies of falling in love . |
| 3 | The Reik is actually the longest single river in the Old World , although only because it bears its name from its source in the Upper Reik to where it joins the sea at Marienburg . |
| 4 | If this can be established as an objective truth , then this would indeed make a correctionalist approach misguided — although only if it were committed to the total elimination of deviance . |
| 5 | For risks in Northern Ireland and certain other Rating Districts where the experience has been unfavourable the premium increase is higher than elsewhere although it will still be partially offset where the Rating Group of the insured car has been reduced . |
| 6 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 7 | The courts are unwilling to adjourn a petition more than once since it must not be allowed to hang over the debtor 's head indefinitely . |
| 8 | But sometimes he had to laugh at this , for if anything she seemed stronger than ever and it was beginning to look as if she might outlast him . |
| 9 | The next instalment in the feud over Dylan , Satchel and another adopted son , 14-year-old Moses , will get a wider audience than ever when it goes back to court in December . |
| 10 | than here because it 's erm so damp down here is n't it , near the river ? |
| 11 | Obviously , however , Bristol and West hopes to hear from interested people in advance — if only so it can gauge the likely demand for each property before the auction starts . |
| 12 | When the campaign opened , it was not immediately obvious which particular issues the parties would choose to stress ; but by the middle of the campaign it was clear that the Conservatives were focusing on defence issues where their policy was so much more popular than Labour 's , if only because it seemed so much simpler to explain . |
| 13 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 14 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 15 | Transgressive reinscription will always remain controversial , if only because it raises such disturbing questions about desire itself , making it profoundly social and thereby asking equally disturbing questions about culture , representation , and social process . |
| 16 | The Boston text is more obviously an exhibition catalogue , if only because it includes a ‘ checklist ’ of the exhibition , which , ignoring the problematic identity of some of the works , distinguishes between works of art and other items ( books , tracts , pamphlets , etc. ) and also carefully identifies the status of individual exhibits by signifying their producer 's relationship to the formally identified Situationist group . |
| 17 | For long-distance cruising , the Calibra is the better choice , if only because it has a more absorbent and quieter motorway ride . |
| 18 | Obviously , this is a total IFR aircraft if only because it is pressurised , so some hours are devoted to what can best be described as ‘ autoflight programming and monitoring ’ . |
| 19 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 20 | James 's own description of the accident is worth repeating , if only because it shows how much ( and how little ) racing drivers really observe in a multi-car shunt : |
| 21 | The stored or potential energy in a raised weight can be used , for instance , to drive the mechanism of a grandfather clock though in most clocks a spring is usually more convenient , if only because it stores the same amount of energy which ever way up it is . |
| 22 | There was a distinct risk that an import licence might be refused , for one thing ; also the medical profession was , and is , against it , if only because it could prolong the , to them , archaic practice of burying the dead . |
| 23 | The Neroccio recently sold in Rome has to be regarded as a forgery , if only because it bears a spurious signature and date . |
| 24 | When a colony was launched as the property of a single owner he , or one of his family , might go out to oversee the administration but he was unlikely to cut his links with England , if only because it was important to be able to maintain the court favour which was part of the political strength needed by anyone who wanted to run a colony on his own . |
| 25 | There can be no mistaking Aldebaran , if only because it lies in line with Orion 's Belt . |
| 26 | Among city-states Athens was not the only democracy in the ancient Greek world but it was the most stable and long-lived , and the best documented , if only because it was politically the most important and culturally the most brilliant and creative of all the city-states . |
| 27 | All discourse is more or less reciprocal , if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers . |
| 28 | Although not strictly speaking within the scope of this book , since it is an entirely artificial substance , enamel needs to be mentioned if only because it served as an alternative to natural stones in enriching jewellery and other symbolic objects . |
| 29 | Even in the fading light it impressed her , if only because it was worse even than she had imagined — or Lionel had said . |
| 30 | ‘ Disability medicine ’ has not found wide support , if only because it has been ( wrongly ) interpreted to imply the medicalisation of disability . |