Example sentences of "and it [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the western consensus based on the traditional liberal interpretation has now broken down , many of the most distinguished scholars in the field remain firmly committed to it and it continues to inform conventional wisdom among non-specialists in the West . |
| 2 | Fortunately for the Government , this short debate in the House of Lords seems to have attracted little attention from the press , and it continued to receive general approbation for the exhibition , with the relevance of the competition remaining largely unquestioned . |
| 3 | When St John left , it was beginning to snow , and it continued snowing all night and all the next day . |
| 4 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 5 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 6 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 7 | And it does show these people are well connected . |
| 8 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
| 9 | And it does read that way now |
| 10 | Now this is your charity , it 's called the R Y A Seamanship Foundation and it does have close links with the R Y A but it is independent and is d is dependent upon raising money from donations and other sources like that . |
| 11 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 12 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 13 | And it goes to show these sportswomen are shrewd as well as skilled . |
| 14 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 15 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 16 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | White and anxious , she said : Yes , she had given that bag to her daughter , and it had contained such chocolates . |
| 19 | And it helps to generate new energy because there is a belief . ’ |
| 20 | The pluralist perspective makes no attempt to criticise British politics , and it chooses to bend democratic theory in a conservative direction so that it justifies and defends the established order . |
| 21 | If consumerism is to be as important as this suggests , then the definition of consumer needs to be wide : it must include the ‘ hidden consumers ’ who do not have much contact with social services departments , and it needs to include both clients and their carers . |
| 22 | It has been adopted by many authors and consultants and it seems to mean many things , depending on the author and context . |
| 23 | Hence the individual soon knows , from this genetic information , what its form and structure is ( its morphology ) , and it begins to acquire behavioural characteristics . |
| 24 | And it 's believed that magnetite in its er one of its forms lodestone was er the earliest form of compass . |
| 25 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 26 | We 'll have to get him out and pay for it and it 's worked total dividends ! |
| 27 | bed , er is a diamond and it 's got hollow fibre |
| 28 | It 's tough , it 'll take touring , and it 's got such bollocks ! |
| 29 | and it 's got twelve months er membership how will I take it out ? |
| 30 | On the first foundation course that people do in this company , the one thing that I do , is I give them a map of the United Kingdom , and it 's got thirty dots on it . |