Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It 's the kind of thing you do n't think of until it actually happens to you .
2 Eventually , the boys decide to start a fire going , this shows the amount of damage they are capable of but it also shows they can cooperate .
3 Since the group covers the range of network technologies ( it includes hub , adaptor , router , switching , silicon and network operating system software companies ) it feels that it has the breadth to give the 100Base-VG proposal credibility , regardless of whether it eventually forms the basis of an IEEE standard .
4 Glasgay ! should be an instructive test of whether it really welcomes innovation and potential controversy , or whether its major cultural skill is just mouth music .
5 In such an unclear area , it was not to be left to Dáil members to decide , irrespective of whether it still remained an appropriate public measure .
6 And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space .
7 Stars could not shine were it not for particles — called neutrinos — that are so insubstantial that they have no mass at all and can travel right through a solid object like the Earth as if it simply did not exist .
8 In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo .
9 And he who allowed his mind to wander found that the Castle was only too happy to guide it for him , and to draw a little of the sensations and memories of that mind into itself , as if it too mulled over those things that stirred the black hearts within its halls …
10 It 's as if it never happened .
11 as if it always had been ?
12 We have wronged her , and ourselves , by constructing the pretence of a political entity , the Commonwealth , and acting as if it really existed .
13 The the erm situation for Lutterworth er Magna Park however I I am familiar with and it certainly preceded section fifty four A and erm in in there were two phases .
14 International is much easier to get into as it automatically positions your player for ever shot .
15 While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda .
16 However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education .
17 ‘ But the machine saves a great deal of time in that it automatically produces statistics and its print-outs clearly show patterns in the absences .
18 The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence .
19 Patchouli is unusual in that it actually improves with age , and a twenty-year-old oil will be extremely mellow and fragrant .
20 Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns .
21 The bushy , white-edged ‘ Madame Salleron ’ is a fine edger for summer beds and is unusual in that it never flowers .
22 This proposal , based upon a Council resolution of May 1985 , was innovative in that it only defines basic requirements , leaving detailed specifications to the individual standardisation bodies .
23 However , in terms of formulating what happens next ( as required by a continuation study ) , the constraint is soft in that it only raises both the probability of the two characters playing the same role in an elaborated representation .
24 I would defend the system by saying that it is not inadequate in that it certainly guarantees quality and safety in this country , but it leaves much to be desired in that it is diverse and scattered throughout hundreds of different local authorities .
25 They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant .
26 On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system .
27 The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’
28 Even according to that it only brings about a slight improvement and yet , the new road causes b in in the words of the County Planning Officer , erm the Borough Council 's own officers and the County Council 's own environmental consultants , causes severe environmental damage .
29 It 's in verse eleven , as a result of the anguish of his soul he will see it and be satisfied , he 'll be satisfied with the rescue operation , he 'll be satisfied with what he has accomplished , Isaiah says , and Jesus uses , perhaps , even more extravagant language , there in Luke fifteen , when he says in verse six , in verse mm mm , in verse seven , when he comes home with that sheep that he 's rescued with that lost to but it now has been found , when he brings it home he says there wi , he says he calls together his friends and his neighbours , saying to them rejoice with me !
30 There were questions about the durability of the logotype over passing years — and questions , too , over whether it properly expressed BT 's international ambitions .
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