Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 2 | Staphylococcus aureus and alpha haemolytic streptococci were the most commonly identified organisms and were usually isolated from the biopsy channel of the endoscope and it seems likely that needle tip contamination is the chief culprit . |
| 3 | ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’ |
| 4 | Tim tries massaging my lower back during the contraction and it feels great — he wo n't be at a loose end from now on ! |
| 5 | ‘ When you have showered or bathed you touch a sensor pad on the machine and it blows warm air over you . ’ |
| 6 | Play is many things to the child and it has many meanings . |
| 7 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 8 | It 's bonded on tight to the surface and it stops any more air getting and oxidizing the rest of the aluminium , so we take that off with the acid and let the acid react with the aluminium nice hole in it |
| 9 | Once vice-chancellors start to think the unthinkable , then the issue becomes part of the agenda and it becomes harder to retreat . |
| 10 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 11 | Certainly witches still have a tradition of performing rites at special places in the countryside and it seems natural for people to want to express their relationship with the Earth in the form of ritual at sites where they know the earth energy can be found . |
| 12 | Faith and I also flew around the pattern and it felt great despite small problems with the tape out on the aircraft to protect the patches stitched on in Bangkok . |
| 13 | It does n't get light until about six o'clock in the morning and it gets dark |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that |
| 18 | The bus turns the corner and it gets stuck in some traffic for a bit and he just carries on shouting again and again . |
| 19 | It supports drag ‘ n ’ drop file selection , backups can be run in the background and it includes all the other facilities of version 7.1 , except for the complementary DOS version . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 24 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 25 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 26 | There was a lack of suitably qualified staff to implement the system and it became costly and time-consuming to implement . |
| 27 | Some tragedy appears to have befallen the family and it appears likely that the grim reaper called for both parents around 1846 . |
| 28 | Kate had told him that at present there were only women in the house and it seemed sensible that he should have a woman with him , particularly as it was Kate who had first broken the news . |
| 29 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |