Example sentences of "[noun] and it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital :
2 This latest book turns the spotlight on the human aspects and it offers excellent entertainment .
3 Apart from the support groups that CRUSE runs , it also produces a large range of literature about the problems of bereavement and it provides practical help in dealing with paperwork and other matters that a bereaved person may never have dealt with before .
4 Graphic Communication is a new subject in Scottish schools and it replaces Technical Drawing .
5 ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said .
6 ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’
7 The organisation has developed an assessment package which enables members to determine their quality positioning against internationally recognised role models and it runs common interest working parties where member companies can work together solving problems of quality progression and sharing knowledge and experience over such issues as benchmarking and the cost of non-conformance with quality .
8 If you knit with a yarn that is too thick for your machine and it feels hard work to you , it is probably hard work for your machine too .
9 ‘ When you have showered or bathed you touch a sensor pad on the machine and it blows warm air over you . ’
10 When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again .
11 Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold .
12 The new agreement means that wines and spirits will now be a significant part of PTGI 's portfolio and it offers excellent potential for future growth as tourism develops in Bali , Lombok and Indonesia 's other tourist destinations .
13 Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense .
14 Choosing the right hotel for your holiday is a most important decision and it needs careful consideration even if you are staying only a few days .
15 But it 's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects .
16 The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’
17 The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union .
18 The Continent , though devastated by war , was still of enormous significance , a centre of technologically-advanced industrial production , with a large population and it exerted colonial control over much of Africa and Asia .
19 Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness .
20 If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week .
21 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
22 But it provides guidelines as to what constitutes reasonable behaviour and it carries considerable weight at an industrial tribunal .
23 For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun .
24 Not only does it constitute the object of its own criticism , it also contains a number of theories of this criticism , and in a recursive move that can truly be termed deconstructive , it presents criticism of these theories and it narrativizes this criticism .
25 The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place .
26 He says there are a number of ecological as well as economic reasons — it 's a longer , stronger tougher fibre — it makes a longer-lasting paper and it makes economic sense to grow the material in this country rather than importing it .
27 It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers .
28 Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network .
29 In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history .
30 News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool .
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