Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) .
2 It s vital that the school has an agreed policy on equal opportunities and that it carries the wholehearted support of both governors and staff .
3 Persistent hypertension was treated by standard methods and if it did not resolve then the dose of the study drug was reduced .
4 Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other .
5 Mud is today rejected because of the inegalitarian social plan of most developing nations and because it does not allow housing professionals any control over the housing process , and indeed would make them largely irrelevant .
6 It worked on mice and if it works on humans it will be just what we 've been waiting for .
7 The series originated from various communities and when it reached the west coast I had to provide the script for a new show every seven days for ten weeks .
8 When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad .
9 Other possible explanations are that interferon alfa is directly toxic to hepatocytes and that it induces autoimmune chronic active hepatitis .
10 The most popular PEPs are based on equity unit trusts and when it comes to charges on , the market breaks down into three .
11 This early class endured a miserable existence in damp , cramped circumstances and when it outgrew these premises , it moved into a building in Gem Street which although much larger was equally gloomy , dark and ugly .
12 This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible .
13 Equally , however , if they are essentially operating as traditional institutions and if it does succeed as a multi-purpose agency , it begs the question whether UDCs were necessary in the first place .
14 It will , however , consider whether the Panel has observed the basic rules of natural justice and has observed its own procedural rules and whether it has been guilty of any irrationality or has misdirected itself in law ( see Datafin ) .
15 Money supply is exogenous ( independently determined ) if it can be fixed by the authorities and if it does not vary with aggregate demand and interest rates .
16 But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply .
17 Then we shall show that this more subtle procedure is a valid way of estimating a macroeconomic model which incorporates rational expectations and that it allows us to test rational expectations conditional on the economic model with which it is combined .
18 Katherine sat back in the train 's cushioned seats and as it pulled away from the platform , she breathed a sigh of relief The first part of her plan had been safely accomplished .
19 Contemporary accounts say that it could reach quite high speeds on the rails and that it saved fuel .
20 Najaar claims that it does not have any side-effects and that it does not affect the taste of food .
21 In the aquarium its roots provide shelter for new-born livebearers and if it grows too rampantly , it 's still easier to prune it in your tank than in a huge lake …
22 He loved it because of the colours and because it needed his nimble fingers .
23 At the moment the synthetic wood is two to three times more expensive than natural wood , but Collins and Aikman believes that the product can nevertheless be competitive because of the savings on incineration or dumping costs and because it lasts three to five times longer than wood .
24 My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system .
25 Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint .
26 A police officer said he suspected an enormous volume of explosives was stockpiled inside one of the buildings and that it exploded due to careless handling .
27 One police officer said he suspected a vast amount of explosive was stockpiled inside one of the buildings and that it exploded due to careless handling .
28 It 's not a problem when it 's in the open air but it can seep into buildings and when it becomes trapped in an enclosed area it 's potentially lethal .
29 right , popcorn starts off as little , like little brown seedy things and when it gets heated up it all pops up into fluffy white stuff , those little brown bits that nobody ate were the hard little bead things that did n't pop up , sometimes they do n't pop up you see
30 The f I often find that really the first year it was more fun and er then when they started on the plays and that it got more serious and
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