Example sentences of "[noun pl] and it [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look it 's got two legs and it 's got two plaits the same as me . |
| 2 | Harriet was concerned it would mean suffering for the wretched animals and it does seem wrong that , for example , under EEC rules the poor beasts do n't even have to be fed and watered so frequently during transport as under our rules . |
| 3 | Marie and Bella sat on until the sun left the gardens and it began to grow cold . |
| 4 | The circular acknowledged that the main burden of providing such care would fall on the local authorities and it aimed to ease this by extending provision for the transfer of NHS financial resources to those local authorities or voluntary bodies that offered to develop community care projects specifically for long-stay hospital patients . |
| 5 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 6 | It had retained no suitable system of books and records , failed to implement an appropriate system of internal controls and it had lacked appropriate segregation of functions . |
| 7 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 8 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 9 | My practice has not encountered serious practical problems different from those of other fundholders and it seems to remove some of the difficulties of the existing scheme in that it resolves the problem of what referrals are within the range of services that can be purchased . |
| 10 | Yeah , they 're , they 're green ones and it 's got purple down the , you know they show purple inside of it |
| 11 | The ritual imagery of the Ring of Minos is nevertheless consistent with what we know of Minoan religious practices and it does offer some additional support for the idea of a sea-shore cult involving both fixed shrines built on the land and portable shrines ferried coastwise by priestesses . |