Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Reik is actually the longest single river in the Old World , although only because it bears its name from its source in the Upper Reik to where it joins the sea at Marienburg . |
| 2 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 3 | The next instalment in the feud over Dylan , Satchel and another adopted son , 14-year-old Moses , will get a wider audience than ever when it goes back to court in December . |
| 4 | The Neroccio recently sold in Rome has to be regarded as a forgery , if only because it bears a spurious signature and date . |
| 5 | The stored or potential energy in a raised weight can be used , for instance , to drive the mechanism of a grandfather clock though in most clocks a spring is usually more convenient , if only because it stores the same amount of energy which ever way up it is . |
| 6 | When the campaign opened , it was not immediately obvious which particular issues the parties would choose to stress ; but by the middle of the campaign it was clear that the Conservatives were focusing on defence issues where their policy was so much more popular than Labour 's , if only because it seemed so much simpler to explain . |
| 7 | Although not strictly speaking within the scope of this book , since it is an entirely artificial substance , enamel needs to be mentioned if only because it served as an alternative to natural stones in enriching jewellery and other symbolic objects . |
| 8 | James 's own description of the accident is worth repeating , if only because it shows how much ( and how little ) racing drivers really observe in a multi-car shunt : |
| 9 | The Boston text is more obviously an exhibition catalogue , if only because it includes a ‘ checklist ’ of the exhibition , which , ignoring the problematic identity of some of the works , distinguishes between works of art and other items ( books , tracts , pamphlets , etc. ) and also carefully identifies the status of individual exhibits by signifying their producer 's relationship to the formally identified Situationist group . |
| 10 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 11 | For long-distance cruising , the Calibra is the better choice , if only because it has a more absorbent and quieter motorway ride . |
| 12 | ‘ Disability medicine ’ has not found wide support , if only because it has been ( wrongly ) interpreted to imply the medicalisation of disability . |
| 13 | Transgressive reinscription will always remain controversial , if only because it raises such disturbing questions about desire itself , making it profoundly social and thereby asking equally disturbing questions about culture , representation , and social process . |
| 14 | There can be no mistaking Aldebaran , if only because it lies in line with Orion 's Belt . |
| 15 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 16 | Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left . |
| 17 | Bush , who was Vice-President at the time of the operation , and Gates , who was deputy director of the CIA , had both denied any knowledge of the operation until shortly before it became public in November 1986 . |
| 18 | I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's academic , ’ Mr Wilson said , ‘ first because the claim has no substance as far as we 're concerned , and second , because even if it has , we have n't got $8bn . |
| 20 | Because then when it 's been er finished I 'm going to repaint the ceiling to cover up the |
| 21 | On the criteria we 've been talking about today , so find yourself a partner that you have n't worked with today somebody erm if you go in the same group that Kathy 's in because then if it comes up to four o'clock Kathy wants to go then you can be the other partner you 've got half an hour to put on one sheet of paper clearly and concisely what we 've done on communications . |
| 22 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 23 | We can not claim that IF/ALT is a normal form since even though it has a far more restrictive syntax than general occam , it is still possible to have equivalent programs with essentially different syntax . |
| 24 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 25 | But America will be right to say no , as long as it has worries about its own inflation . |
| 26 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |
| 27 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 28 | He considered the Shah an autocrat , not a dictator ; a dictator would have crushed the clerical unrest as soon as it began to appear , and the Shah had not . |
| 29 | And they resented the cliche of representing the success of the band by a series of brief musical sequences alternating with shots of trains , because their clapping accompaniment was interrupted as soon as it began . |
| 30 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |