Example sentences of "it [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There they will have seen the steepest acceleration graph we have ever plotted , with it 0–100mph time of only 14secs and an elapsed time for the standing quarter-mile of 13.9secs . ’ |
| 32 | Other triterpenoids such as oleanolic acid ( 2 ) 4 ( Calendula ) , ursolic acid ( 3 ) 5 ( Psychotria adenophylla ) , taxaxerol ( 4 ) 5 ( Taraxacum officinale ) , lupeol acetate ( 5 ) 5 ( Spilanthes ocymifolia ) and sericic acid and it glycoside sericoside ( 6 ) 6 ( Terminalia sericea ) have antiulcer properties but these compounds have not been developed commercially in the West . |
| 33 | Was it scum fans or turks ? |
| 34 | What was it Granny Tremayne used to say ? |
| 35 | It wis jist a notion i' ma mither 's . |
| 36 | Didny like tae tell them it wis plastic ! |
| 37 | When ma da came to winch her Well , it wis kinuffa a case o' Lady and the Tramp — A bit o' a vamp , A high-class bitch , my ma — Nine tenths purebred Alsatian One part je-ne-sais-quoi — |
| 38 | You could call it Reservoir Bitches . |
| 39 | It 's worth it strawberry moose . |
| 40 | So what is it ad advent calendars . |
| 41 | If I were a scientist , perhaps I 'd be looking at it , and say , what does that mean in terms of weather , what does it mean in terms of pressure , is it cumulus cloud or says , what other cloud . |
| 42 | Oh , is , is it range value . |
| 43 | Citizens Band Radio calls it Matchstick City and you can see why : boarded-up houses , houses with wild shadows staining the walls where flames have leapt to the roof . |
| 44 | I call it curry cheese as it is very heavily flavoured with cumin seeds . |
| 45 | no , but the spiders , I remember that one that got , was on the daddy-longlegs and he was just sitting there and he would n't move and no one would walk down the stairs , so we were just giving it pouf pouf and all throwing things at him trying to get him to go . |
| 46 | Well I , I would call it south London . |
| 47 | Anyway , call it south London . |
| 48 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 49 | Um I 'm not quite sure wheth whether you 'd call it bullying , whether you 'd call it child sex abuse , whether you 'd whatever you call it I think depends on the ages of the participants and depends on on the perspective of the person who 's describing it as well |
| 50 | they were watching this thing about erm , what do you call it child thing |
| 51 | is that traffic calming or is it town centre enhancement because it happens to be in the middle of the towns . |
| 52 | Was it Monsieur de Rochefort who 'd tried to persuade Rohan to marry Antoinette ? she wondered . |
| 53 | However , we were advised well by Simon Ellis who was an amateur ‘ plonker ’ or is it wine buff ? |
| 54 | John , Sylvester and James flaunt it disco style |
| 55 | Well , it was–a start . |
| 56 | During May , Polygram sells it millionth CD . |
| 57 | Been with C U for about two years last September , er started management training , came straight from University , erm , tt several section section head erm , starting with with various instructional outside they call it process control . |
| 58 | ‘ We believe there is a new segment emerging ; we call it business workstations , ’ says Anil Gadre , head of product marketing at Sun . |
| 59 | ‘ Is it business pressures ? |
| 60 | ( 7 ) The agreement will be construed so as to give it business efficacy . |