Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It could do good but it does more bad |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ When you have showered or bathed you touch a sensor pad on the machine and it blows warm air over you . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it 's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects . |
| 12 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is essentially a digging tool but it has another function I have always found particularly useful . |
| 17 | Community is part of the job but it needs good management ( paying teachers , costing the use of premises , the division of time other than that which is needed to provide the national curriculum ) as well as a personally felt sense of value . |
| 18 | But it provides guidelines as to what constitutes reasonable behaviour and it carries considerable weight at an industrial tribunal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 25 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 26 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 27 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 28 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 29 | The element of performance referred to under Dramatic playing occurs as part of a participant 's expression but it has such clarity and selectivity of communication to other participants that it acquires the ‘ adjectival ’ , descriptive characteristic of performing . |
| 30 | Water also has a melting point and a boiling point much higher than would be expected from its formula and it becomes more fluid with increasing temperature . |