Example sentences of "and [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one , of course , other than perhaps Winston Churchill and those in the very top echelons of the services , knew exactly when and where it would take place , but the tide by now had definitely and dramatically turned in favour of the Allies . |
| 2 | Even when the swing is slightly out of tune , the really good golfer has such good feel for the ball and where it ought to go that he can produce a respectable shot most of the time . |
| 3 | Where a government is very keen to press on with its programme , and where it can foresee that it would otherwise be frustrated by pressure of time , it can move that a timetable be adopted for a particular measure and , if the House so resolves , the Business Committee of the House will arrange a programme for a particular Bill , setting aside a specific number of days for each stage . |
| 4 | She saw at once what was happening to her and to Rose , and where it could lead them both . |
| 5 | If we shoot a rocket to the moon and bring it back ten days later we can calculate before the start , within a matter of seconds and a few hundred yards , just how long it will take and where it will land , provided always that in the course of the proceedings there is no human error . |
| 6 | When Mother Pig tells Tottie that she 's having a new baby , and that it might arrive on Tottie 's birthday , Tottie is n't very happy . |
| 7 | You had n't told your wife about it , so I thought it was probably bad news , and that it might have upset you enough to — well , to do something . |
| 8 | And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now . |
| 9 | He prayed that hope was somewhere out there in the city tonight , and that it might come into his heart , and scour him of his doubts and confusions ; a light that would not only burn in him , but would spread throughout the Dominions , and illuminate the Imajica from one end to the other . |
| 10 | The Independent Television Commission does suggest that Channel 5 might offer local television to individual cities at certain times of the day , and that it might wish to base itself outside London , but only if it chooses . |
| 11 | There were additional concerns in Europe , given that the SDI programme was designed to ensure immunity for the United States and that it might prejudice the US commitment to European security in the event of nuclear war . |
| 12 | These indicate that time itself had a beginning about fifteen billion years ago and that it may come to an end at some point in the future . |
| 13 | I understand that the Lancashire section of the review of local government is to take place later this year and that it may include the consideration of changes to local government boundaries in this area . |
| 14 | And that it may have practical applications . |
| 15 | Greece opposed recognition on the grounds that no country could claim the name of Macedonia ; that the republic , if independent , would only survive as the instrument of another country ; and that it would threaten northern Greece . |
| 16 | The government said that it would consider lifting the state of emergency still in force in Natal , and that it would give immediate consideration to repealing the Internal Security Act . |
| 17 | I wished they would go somewhere and fight a duel to the death , and that it would end in a draw . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , it was reported on Sept. 26 that the World Bank had authorized the creation of a special facility to grant concessional credit to help lower-middle income countries to re-settle migrant workers fleeing Iraq and Kuwait , and that it would advance disbursements from the Bank 's soft loan affiliate , the International Development Association ( IDA ) , to the poorest countries . |
| 19 | On June 6 the government announced that it wanted to join the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and that it would sign the 1975 Helsinki Final Act . |
| 20 | Do you think that the ocean , which swells and struggles , Would be happy to open its mouth day and night , To breathe into the void a vapour of noise , And that it would roar , beneath the hurricane above , If its roaring was not speech ? |
| 21 | These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly . |
| 22 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 23 | He once claimed to me that he was able to open a beer bottle with his eye and that it would cost me $29 for the privilege of seeing the trick . |
| 24 | Even so , our model of heroin ‘ epidemics ’ suggested that the rate of growth of the Wirral ‘ epidemic ’ was slowing up , and that it would peak during the late 1980s . |
| 25 | Murray confirmed only that the deal had been agreed and that it would go a long way towards cutting Rangers ' overdraft of £9.5 million . |
| 26 | What they hoped for was a future that Swindon would begin , then get league racing and that it would go on forever . |
| 27 | He said that Buthelezi 's approach threatened to bring him into " direct confrontation " with the government in Pretoria.The ANC said that Buthelezi 's purpose was to sabotage national negotiations and that it would boycott any referendum called to test the plan . |
| 28 | It was reported on May 23 that Lithuania 's Salcininkai okrug ( district ) had been proclaimed autonomous by its local soviet ( council ) and that it would continue to recognize the constitution of Soviet Lithuania rather than the independence constitution . |
| 29 | Following on from the last administration , the Conservative proposals and that it would enable something like four hundred and fifty extra nursery places to be provided . |
| 30 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |