Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were going out into the world though none of them knew quite where until it was announced in public at their Commissioning Service it , the Albert Hall . |
| 2 | Where a country is largely isolated from the rest of the world , the state-centred approach does seem more plausible than where it is located within an identifiable system of global relationships . |
| 3 | This would appear to reflect the fact that what was learned , and from whom it was learned , was considerably more important than where it was learned . |
| 4 | A Character Ballet is one in which classical technique is discarded except where it is used to depict particular and usually fantastic characters as for the dolls in Petrushka and La Boutique Fantasque . |
| 5 | This is not unlike the high-technology if , vestment profile except that it is generalised to situations where the expected risks of high technology are absent . |
| 6 | This bequest regarding the income from the land is like a prior legacy — except that it is worded as a trust . |
| 7 | The internal picture would then look exactly like that for the Hall effect in any normal conducting solid , except that it is limited to two dimensions . |
| 8 | The rules for the cameras in committees are essentially the same as in the House , except that it is recognised that it is not possible to exclude shots showing the public , especially those sitting behind the witnesses in a select committee . |
| 9 | Right in the middle of an expanse of orderly herringbone there can be a patch , identical to the rest except that it is twisted round at a different angle so that the ‘ weave ’ goes off in another direction . |
| 10 | The airport at Singapore is like any other except that it is filled with white men wearing long shorts . |
| 11 | There is no limit to the effects which can be created using this method , except that it is restricted to the use of plain carpet . |
| 12 | A lot like the pig above , except that it 's found on the grasslands and savannah woodlands of eastern and south-eastern Africa , is slightly bigger , is more bristly than hairy and is a muddy colour . |
| 13 | Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states . |
| 14 | Except that it was made back-to-back with a third episode , and there is an extraordinary air of expediency about it . |
| 15 | Almost every interview ended with ‘ I do n't remember much except that it was snowing … ’ or words to that effect . |
| 16 | We know nothing of his campaign , except that it was limited to a single season and that the Silures did not appear again as a fighting force . |
| 17 | In the move to the middle ground of politics , it risked becoming indistinguishable from its rivals , except that it was tarnished with holding office for so long . |
| 18 | Except if it 's warnin' you . ’ ’ |
| 19 | ever quite to reach ( although if it 's cut |
| 20 | Does the Minister consider it fair that , if a child is born in East Anglia , it has a far better chance of survival than if it is born in Yorkshire or in my region , where we recently lost five intensive care cots ? |
| 21 | Similarly , the introduction of case management into a deprived service context is likely to achieve less than if it is introduced as a key component in an already well structured and resourced service . |
| 22 | A dog which is being exercised off the leash will cover considerably more ground than if it is walking with you . |
| 23 | This situation is known as one of negative ‘ net-effective cost ’ ( NEC ) , and the CEGB should undertake any investment promising NEC on the grounds that it will make electricity prices cheaper than if it were to do nothing . |
| 24 | As the whole system is headed by a man , it is likely that the village has to move more frequently than if it were headed by a woman . |
| 25 | Indeed , an externally " imposed " reform would be welcome as it would be politically more acceptable than if it were initiated solely through domestic pressures . |
| 26 | In the past a private sector proposal had to demonstrate that funding costs would be less than if it was carried out by the Government . |
| 27 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 28 | Charlotte returned almost gladly to the recollection of her morning interview , and in retrospect it seemed to her far more strange and mysterious than while it was happening . |
| 29 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 30 | An important point to bear in mind when choosing roses for pressing — or any other flowers , for that matter — is that once anything has been flattened it appears much larger than when it is viewed three-dimensionally . |