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

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1 Secondly , there is nothing to suggest that using two languages detracts from either one of them or that it produces continued interference .
2 Society might judge that this severely reduced the welfare of citizens in remote areas or that it promoted regional dissent which reduced the sense of national unity .
3 The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack .
4 The only thing if it 's a bargain or if it looks nice or you need something new .
5 A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause .
6 Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it .
7 The protestant version has variants as to how pure this church is or whether it remains sinful , but the evangelical version which is the basic one in the North of Ireland opts absolutely for ‘ Jesus Saves ’ ; the community , no longer medium of salvation , tends to take on a visible , earthly role , an occasion of grace and a support for religious ‘ this-worldly ’ activity .
8 One is whether a form is morphologically basic , or whether it needs extra material added by way of an additional rule .
9 In my judgment , the expression , special to section 10(4) , that time runs from service of the demand or when it becomes operative , is intended to distinguish summary proceedings from other proceedings .
10 The local authority contend the correct date is when the demand for payment was served or when it became operative .
11 Stress becomes harmful only when it exceeds our ability to cope with the situation , or when it continues unrelieved over a prolonged period .
12 Alice 's body felt cold and closed-up and stiff except where it felt sore and vulnerable , and her mind felt sore all over .
13 It is hardly surprising that it replaced the old ‘ putting out ’ system , nor that it led displaced domestic workers and artisans to smash machinery in a wave of ‘ Luddite ’ outbreaks .
14 When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit .
15 Remorseful Prober is like Naive Prober , except that it takes active steps to break out of runs of alternating recrimination .
16 The main feature of the bureaucratic-technical class is that although it lacks effective control over the means of production its members do have control over the labour of others in their subordinate position in bureaucratic structures .
17 Commentators noted that although it stopped short of declaring immediate secession from the Soviet Union , with this declaration Armenia technically went further towards independence than any other republic save Lithuania .
18 However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered .
19 Supporters say that although it provides vital support for millions , Oxfam has hardly any effect on the real causes of poverty and illness .
20 If you go much faster than that it gets windy very quickly , although the heater can still turn the cabin into blast furnace .
21 This based on the deeply entrenched conviction that if it looks naughty it must be very fattening , while if it looks innocent or healthy it can not be .
22 However the Southampton Hospital insists that while it discourages smoking and wo n't allow it in the building , they have no ban on heart operations .
23 But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it .
24 We may observe in passing that while it seems obvious enough in the abstract that we should distinguish between what is good in itself and what is good as a means , more is at stake here than conceptual clarity .
25 The basic problem for the Emperor was that while France needed Britain it was not at all clear to British statesmen that their country had any need of France — except when it suited British interests .
26 That did n't help the Black Destroyer , certainly , but it died because I made a mistake , and my power is so strong that when it goes wrong , which is seldom but not never , even those things I have invested with great protective power become vulnerable .
27 Yeah , but it freezes that quick that when it falls overnight and then by the morning it frozen so hard that you can walk on top of it
28 Iceland says that when it resumes commercial whaling , as it intends to do , it will withdraw its objections to the cull grenade ban .
29 The basis of learning in a BM is , we force it so that when it runs free , this is what it does .
30 The news and feature material is heavily locally oriented , little in the way of national news except as it affects local area .
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