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

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1 Domestic organic rubbish is slightly heated with an added chemical and as it decomposes liquid organic fertiliser begins bleeding into the soil .
2 In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house .
3 Planning Permission depends on the size of the work and whether it affects other priorities .
4 So if food consumption decreases there is a danger of malnutrition and if it continues one of obesity ( with attendant heart problems ) .
5 In rainforest regions , deforestation is the major agent of environmental change and while it has obvious localised effects , especially in relation to soil erosion and soil degradation , there is growing concern that such large-scale destruction of biomass may have implications for climatic change ( section 5.3.1 ) .
6 The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building .
7 Bill has plenty more photographs and stories about his walk and if it proves popular hopes to bring out a hardback guidebook .
8 ‘ With over 300 covers it was probably too big as a fish restaurant and while it stayed successful for some time as The Chicago Meatpackers , the area around it , in the West End of London , has changed in two major ways .
9 He liked to please the family and if it wished ill to the starveling cat then so did he .
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