Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And desire is starving and its belly grows huge but its lungs continue to process air and it lights small fires everywhere . |
| 32 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | I could n't give him cover because the see shield is is quite a heavy cumbers cumbersome thing and it has two handles behind it erm and they are obviously the means of holding it up and f for directing it wherever you want so I 'm holding this all the time so he ca n't pass his weapon to me and he ca n't put his weapon in my holster because my gun was in the holster . |
| 35 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 36 | Love is the largest region of the transcendent world and it has many forms — there can be love of God , love of nature , and the love of a human being and love of our fellowmen . |
| 37 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 41 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
| 42 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 43 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Law meant the right ordering of society on earth and it reflected Divine Law . |
| 48 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |
| 49 | This makes the determination of shear modulus by a torsion test a difficult task and it requires careful experimentation . |