Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the information which was handled in FEMIS made up only the bones of college work and it seems likely that the initial difficulty experienced in FE about translating information into worthwhile knowledge about the improvement in learning would also be experienced at the primary or secondary levels . |
| 2 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 3 | But EC politicians are meeting later this month to discuss maternity rights and it seems likely that Britain will be forced to bring in a more generous package . |
| 4 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 5 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 6 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 7 | down and there 's a path goes along and it comes , it goes under the road bridge and it comes out at the foot bridge and it runs next to it |
| 8 | They requested Bowden to give a road-side breath test and it proved positive . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
| 11 | The Rover 600 is the latest , newest model to come out od Cowley and it represents more than anything else the regeneration of the works . |
| 12 | arabiensis in the Sudan , show resistance to malathion only in the adult stage and it seems evident that such resistance was not in fact selected by agricultural usage . |
| 13 | It 's a long journey back and it grows dark early . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach . |
| 16 | A spokesman for Rothmans , who have factories in Darlington and Spennymoor , said : ‘ We are a major employer in County Durham and it seemed natural to support the team as it sets off on a new challenge as a first-class county . |
| 17 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 18 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 19 | Most ma–or roads now have cycle facilities and it seems likely that these have had a positive effect on the road safety of cyclists . |
| 20 | Get maximum press coverage and it looks good , but there is also equally a very considerable programme running , very gently sort of going at the community , working with the community , holding hands with the community and getting results erm a policy for for |
| 21 | all the memory cells and it destroys recent ones so she ca n't remember things from recent but she can remember things from years and years and years ago , it 's really funny . |
| 22 | Community care is being used as a euphemism for family care and it seems unlikely that recent policy developments will alter the basic pattern . |
| 23 | ‘ They were in a street shelter and it got flattened , ’ he said . |
| 24 | We were n't clad in PT kit but in woollen pullovers and regulation slacks and it seemed unlikely that anything violent was imminent . |