Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she tried again the door gave suddenly as if it had decided of itself to let her in . |
| 2 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 3 | In other words , in those studies where children heard both more and less in the same trials or same sessions , and where there were more than two responses possible , they showed no evidence of treating less as if it meant more . |
| 4 | the idea that every form of avoidance of expenditure quite indifferently of whether it consists of really wasteful expenditure or of a capital investment in developing the nation 's productive resources , is alike ‘ economy ’ … . |
| 5 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 6 | The hard copy volume is deleted from the hard copy directory regardless of whether it has been accepted or rejected . |
| 7 | But , unlike other Governments , we have not bound ourselves to join regardless of whether it makes economic or political sense . |
| 8 | From a strictly biological point of view , this work is notable enough in that it establishes a new category of bacterial metabolism . |
| 9 | The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August . |
| 10 | The target may make the usual response just as if it had been charged in the normal manner . |
| 11 | The unit must take a fear test immediately just as if it had been charged by an enemy that caused fear . |
| 12 | If engaged in hand-to-hand fighting the unit will break if it fails the test and may be pursued just as if it had been broken in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 13 | A vidicon TV camera can provide an input to such systems , and the image from the TV camera is stored in a memory bank just as if it had been read from a disc file ( as would be the case with a remotely-sensed image ( Chapter 5 ) ) . |
| 14 | Picking up a hefty cleaver he chopped the green skinned creature clean in half as easily as if it had been a stick of celery . |
| 15 | The whole Home Rule movement , with roots going far back into the past , melted quietly away as if it had never been . |
| 16 | Pascoe took his hand away as if it had been stung . |
| 17 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 18 | If the representation has been made fraudulently or recklessly ( not caring whether or not it is true ) , then at common law the remedy of rescission is available ( setting the contract aside as if it had never been made at all ) , together with a right to recover any money laid out . |
| 19 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 20 | He also keeps the following Presto agitato simmering for longer than usual ( track 4 ) , and his restraint pays off handsomely in that it throws the later climactic phases into relief . |
| 21 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ she uttered smugly as if it did n't matter at all . |
| 23 | This is a distinctive feature of the arrangements , both because it identifies pressure at an early stage and also in that it establishes the source of disturbance and whether it is a weak or strong currency . |
| 24 | The fluorite structure ( see figure 3.27 ) differs from those described above in that its stoichiometry is AB2 and also in that it has two different coordination numbers — and 4 . |
| 25 | The revision phase of the operation differs from the initial phase in that it takes account of weaknesses ( and strengths ) inherent in the stock from previous years ' book buying , and also in that it provides indications of the need for weeding the stock of individual categories , in addition to purchasing . |
| 26 | For the present , in the daytime , he was abruptly fed up with the lot : himself , his insufficiency , the toll that his financial state seemed to be taking of his wife , and the colossally polite head of his stepson , hanging over him now as if it had a miniature keg of brandy around its neck . |
| 27 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 28 | Schmidt 's study differs from those discussed so far in that it does not quantify network structure at all , but uses the concept to account for differences between speakers which emerge from a quantitative analysis of linguistic data . |
| 29 | Thus the narrow strict sense of elite , though sometimes used misleadingly as if it had been demonstrated satisfactorily , is rarely applied consistently throughout an argument in modern elite theory . |
| 30 | ‘ The Libyan desert has become an inferno where the front line moves continuously as if it had gone mad , ’ wrote Monelli , an Italian war correspondent . |