Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jenna had never known if that last advice had come from her mother or if it had been her father 's order . |
| 4 | A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 8 | A spirit-based Sanding Sealer can be applied to new or stripped wood , or after it has been stained . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 10 | ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or |
| 11 | A feeling of belonging to a community , or as it has been described here , of citizenship , is built up from a whole range of social , economic and psychological components . |
| 12 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 13 | Although in itself durable , polythene sheet could hardly be regarded as pleasing in the long term , except where it has been colour printed on commercial kites . |
| 14 | More than once it has been labelled the oriel town of the upper Rhine , and certainly the multiplicity of those beautifully shaped projecting windows , so delicately ornamented , are a significant factor in preserving the essentially medieval atmosphere of the place . |
| 15 | Credit Suisse said that although it had been decided that none of the managers could represent the bondholders , it would be advising them and providing them with information . |
| 16 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 17 | Urine production naturally declines while the puppy is asleep , so that once it has been put outside at night , then the young dog should be able to last quite comfortably through to the morning . |
| 18 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 19 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 20 | In other words , while the court would not have imposed liability in respect of the decision itself ( except if it had been perverse ) failure to go through the preliminary steps of obtaining essential information could have grounded liability . |
| 21 | I used a textured cream fabric as a backing , to add a little interest , although if it had been too heavy it would have distracted one 's eye from the heart pattern itself . |
| 22 | ‘ Would he have said that if it had been 0–0 ? ’ asked some hard-bitten locals pertinently . |
| 23 | But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't . |
| 24 | But Mortimer said that if it had been him he would have hit the roof . ’ |
| 25 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 26 | Earlier Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke admitted that if it had been his decision in 1953 he would have reprieved 19-year-old Bentley from the gallows . |
| 27 | She had this thing that if it had been a Nigerian boy , the mother would be here saying " I 'm sorry my son has got your daughter pregnant . |
| 28 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 29 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 30 | Their Lordships said that if it had been saleable only at a ‘ throw away ’ price , that would indicate that it was not of merchantable quality . |