Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continuing use after that time of recognition is a time of testing whether control is possible or whether it has indeed been lost . |
| 2 | All these questions can help you decide whether the ad is right or whether it needs changing . |
| 3 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 4 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 5 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 6 | However , in the event you are not likely to want to do that , the embroidery usually looks delightfully spontaneous and if it does n't balance you can generally add an extra petal to help it out . |
| 7 | That 's understandable and to some extent justifiable but if it creates the impression in anyone 's mind that the U S has a presidential system of government er then they would be sadly mistaken . |
| 8 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |
| 9 | It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable . |
| 10 | When Z 1 and Z 2 are pure reactances , is real and since it follows that The solution to equation ( 9.13 ) implies that or which means that there is no reduction in amplitude through a section of the filter . |
| 11 | A more recent commentator on Marx 's concept of ideology , Jorge Larrain , accepts that the concept is vague and that it has to be worked out from what little Marx wrote ( Larrain 1979 : 36 ) . |
| 12 | I mentioned earlier that a particular meaning might be made accessible but that it does not necessarily follow that it will be acceptable . |
| 13 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 14 | Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances . |
| 15 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 16 | Should it be abolished either because its use is unjustified or because it has fallen into disuse ? |
| 17 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 18 | The rooms are badly heated , the facilities are okay and and it 's been , it 's been an okay experience so far . |
| 19 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
| 20 | A World Championship conker must be exactly a week old , any less and it is too soft and if it lies any longer , the inside shrivels up . |
| 21 | The terms should also make it clear that the committee has the power to investigate matters within its brief and that it has full access to information . |
| 22 | Discovery was inevitable and when it came at last there were reasons to rejoice , but not at the reunion with Christopher . |
| 23 | And when you look at L P G , while it 's in its canister , okay , it 's a liquid but when it meets normal atmospheric temperature and pressure it converts to a gas . |
| 24 | It is likely that certain crimes have increased not because people have become more dishonest but because it has become easier to commit such crimes . |
| 25 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 26 | Either way , the club remains legal and if it brings relief from pain on the greens then , say salesmen , it is worth every penny . |
| 27 | These data suggest that the state 's contribution of resources to elderly households through the provision of support services is , for most services , not substantial and that it varies with the type of household . |
| 28 | Not all of them I accept and they 've been very helpful and when it comes to erm any other issue , I think basically , unfortunately sir , I think that we have strayed from the debate , we 've strayed onto ethnic issues er er and I think it 's a shame Mr , there was no need to introduce that and of course it was bound to bring a backlash , it was bound to introduce it it it it 's coloured it it 's made opaque the issues because you make it complicated , in actual fact er er I think that er being a governor of a school , I think that 's absolutely marvellous that some youngsters the future , I think the future will decide , I think there are kids out there will turn round one day and say how could you have done that ? |
| 29 | He knew that the universe was complex but that it obeyed certain rules , although , she supposed , he would n't have used the word ‘ obey ’ with its implication of conscious choice . |
| 30 | Many firms find that the implementation process is not merely complex but that it amplifies strains in the internal politics . |