Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't see the logic of this except that it protected Thatcher from any hint of ‘ doing deals with terrorists ’ . |
| 2 | It drives around and the air that comes out of its exhaust is actually cleaner than when it comes in . |
| 3 | Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went . |
| 4 | What is the Government 's attitude to Labour 's proposal for a defence diversification agency , bearing in mind that if it were so easy to create jobs through a Government agency , it is surprising that Labour has always left behind more unemployed than when it took office . |
| 5 | Well , there 's a very good reason for this because as it happens erm Brighton was a filmmaking centre in the very earliest days . |
| 6 | Now this when when it comes at the end of a word |
| 7 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 8 | It follows that a household will spend more on consumption if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively low than if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively high . |
| 9 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 10 | future cos if it does n't work you can always |
| 11 | ‘ No , it 's not the cab , Mr Fitzroy , so much as where it 's been . ’ |
| 12 | The impalpable principle of life and thought , pure as when it left the creator to inspire the creature . |
| 13 | But de Gaulle never felt compelled to recognize the military hierarchy which existed before 18 June 1940 except when it suited his interests to do so . |
| 14 | Now on the angle that you did there the degrees can you add those up and just before you start drawing it you should always add them up and make sure they all come to three sixty cos if it comes to four hundred it 's going to go right round and a bit further than once round . |
| 15 | although having said that I 'll know that if I do well its mine , its in my own , own work , which I think is probably better because when it comes to it you do n't get any help on the day do ya ? |
| 16 | Sometimes I find the book very interesting which is good because when it comes to writing about it I find it easy . |
| 17 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 18 | Unfortunately this does not appear to work the other way ; the shipowners would not be entitled to any share in a windfall profit if the market value of the cargo increased dramatically and was sold for much more than if it had arrived on time . |
| 19 | In a climate where what is thought is less important than that it does not deviate from what it is ‘ correct ’ to think , the use of grids can illuminate the unique aspects of individual insight . |
| 20 | Alice 's body felt cold and closed-up and stiff except where it felt sore and vulnerable , and her mind felt sore all over . |
| 21 | So it actually comes to us quite a bit smaller than when it 's filled in by them . |
| 22 | This section is for permanent residents ; I brought you here first because if it had got out that you had been here and had n't seen this lot my life would n't have been worth living . |
| 23 | ( The previous version of the Code , which was still in force when Jones was tried , was identical except that it referred only to parades , not to other identification procedures . ) |
| 24 | I know , I keep , well I 'd , you get worried because if it came on gently , you know , smoothly you know what , to come on so quickly I 'm |
| 25 | His father 's face was as red as if it had been turned inside out . |
| 26 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 27 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 28 | Her responses were slow as though it required an effort to reply . |
| 29 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |