Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped neither to rest or eat until it was almost dark . |
| 2 | If I showed the slightest sign of taking sides about Bodyline , or suggesting that it was a threat to cricket , my reports would be censored and I would probably be replaced . |
| 3 | It is also illegal for manufacturers to give their product a misleading name , or to claim that it is made of a particular ingredient which in fact makes up a very small proportion of the product . |
| 4 | There 's no way that a farrier can shoe a horse that is so angry or frightened that it is rearing and leaping all over the place . |
| 5 | Who remembers or cares that it was he , who as minister of local government , introduced the poll tax and defended it passionately to the death ? |
| 6 | The phatic function : opening the channel or checking that it is working , either for social reasons ( ‘ Hello' , ‘ Lovely weather ’ , ‘ Do you come here often ? ’ ) , or for practical ones ( ‘ Can you hear me ? ’ , |
| 7 | Moreover , it would appear that the difference is that the latter sentence expresses my belief that I have the belief that it is raining , and says that I have the belief that it is raining , and does not express the belief that it is raining or say that it is raining . |
| 8 | Then I remembered Stephen Roskill telling me not to believe a word Mountbatten said or claimed unless it was corroborated from other sources . |
| 9 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 10 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
| 11 | Like , you could n't have pianos or sax because it was n't hardcore . ’ |
| 12 | Let the pie rest for 5–10 min before serving , or wait until it is cold , but be sure to serve it the day of making or the meringue may begin to weep . |
| 13 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 14 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 15 | But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference . |
| 16 | If he publishes untrue defamatory matter recklessly , without considering or caring whether it be true or not , he is in this , as in other branches of the law , treated as if he knew it to be false . |
| 17 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 18 | Yet in Britain , ‘ race ’ can not be under stood if it is falsely divorced from other political processes or grasped if it is reduced to the effect of these other relations . |
| 19 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 20 | Illustrated in a multitude of colourful paint schemes are the Super Sabre , Voodoo , Delta Dagger ( or Duce as it was known to its crews ) , Starfighter , Thunderchief and Delta Dart . |
| 21 | I knew I was being bewitched , laid under a spell so intensely personal , so thrilling , I did not have the power to resist it , or to judge if it were good or evil . |
| 22 | In virtue of expressing the belief that it is raining the statement ‘ It is raining says or asserts that it is raining . |
| 23 | However , as an economist and Labour supporter , I was never convinced by its campaign , or felt that it was winning or deserved to win . |
| 24 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 25 | On the last day of my visit to Florida I met Graham Morris , the Rover Group 's American President , who told me that whether it 's work or play if it 's in America it 's got to be big to survive . |
| 26 | When they read to us they do n't skip bits , or mind if it is the same story over again . |
| 27 | They come to me to ask for advice , to see if the child is all right , or to check when it is due . |
| 28 | Wind the strip of green crepe paper round the length of your pencil or stick until it is completely covered . |
| 29 | If you 've been put off a simple d-i-y job which involves mixing concrete or mortar because it 's such a hassle , then the Odjob is for you ! |
| 30 | When ‘ I 'm getting into a muddle ’ is a soliloquy , ‘ I ’ certainly does not serve to direct Descartes 's attention to Descartes , or to show that it is Descartes , none other , who is getting into a muddle . |