Example sentences of "and it [vb -s] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through subsidies the state has established a vast ‘ social salary ’ to make life easier for workers and it takes a pride in the extensiveness of the welfare system that has developed from this . |
| 2 | The ability to select propitious characters in Chinese is a fine art and it takes a student of great learning to transpose an English name into Chinese syllables which convey beauty both in the pictogram character and in meaning , and yet bear some semblance in sound to the original name . |
| 3 | We carve moulds in wood and it takes a craftsman with a spokes have a day to do each one . |
| 4 | If you are sitting in a very large house on your own , which is draining away your resources because it still has mortgage payments to be met and it takes a lot of money to heat and light every year , you must seriously consider cashing in on your assets by moving to a smaller house that eliminates your mortgage and cuts down on running costs , or by taking out an annuity on your house . |
| 5 | Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready . |
| 6 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 7 | Its part is non-transposing and it possesses a compass of three octaves : . |
| 8 | It also wants a market in research , and it promises a mechanism for funding the excess costs of academic teaching and clinical research . |
| 9 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 10 | So you get this in your hot water cylinder , we can get it in boilers , erm you get it in hot water pipes and it happens a lot in in hard water areas , Scale will dissolve in the acid in the bubbles of Twelve point seven . |
| 11 | And it remains a matter of debate to what extent Luke is exercising editorial privilege in his accounts of the apostolic preaching . |
| 12 | This is a mixture of tiredness and a kind of boredom and it produces a deterioration in mental performance . |
| 13 | This is , in effect , a sound lens and it produces a sonic-searchlight with which the animal scans the water ahead of it . |
| 14 | The book 's origins as a special issue of the journal Women 's Studies International Quarterly are all too apparent and it offers a series of partial glimpses rather than a coherent overall picture . |
| 15 | The benefits of gardening as a hobby are wide-ranging : it is satisfying as a pastime with a visible end-product , and it offers a lot of opportunities for meeting like-minded people in a pleasant environment . |
| 16 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 17 | It is shocking and horrible , and it requires a sense of irony almost to reflect on the fact that this is 1991 — towards the end of the 20th century . |
| 18 | Take a step back , view it from the angles and it becomes a sort of absurdist roman fleuve , a Dada- Climbers with which anyone with a tape-recorder and a gift for transcription would run away with the Boardman Tasker prize . |
| 19 | Add diced shallots to the vinaigrette and it becomes a sauce for a jellied boeuf à la mode or an oxtail terrine . |
| 20 | Once it becomes an end in itself then it becomes worth doing and it becomes a profession in itself just as being a dancer is a profession . |
| 21 | It is a little bit weak and it lacks a bit of punch . |
| 22 | The influx of new citizens from Russia may be exacerbating the friction in the settlements being established in the Israeli-administered territories won from the country 's Arab neighbours in the various attacks on the country since 1948 , and it represents an exodus of skills that Russia can ill afford to lose , but it is doing nothing but good for the vibrant information technology sector of the Israeli economy . |
| 23 | This is the highest badge a Guide can earn and it involves a lot of work . |
| 24 | And it says a lot for our low expectations that most people automatically go for the salt as soon as their plate arrives at the table . |
| 25 | The Flesch readability assessment was developed by Rudolf Flesch , and it uses a value of 50% to represent text of average readability among average adults . |
| 26 | It has a former Friends of the Earth director as a policy adviser and it donates a penny to charity for every returned plastic carrier bag — two ways in which J. Sainsbury is setting out its stall as a leader on environmental issues . |
| 27 | The interview schedule , then , is essentially an intermediate stage in research , and it fulfils a variety of functions . |
| 28 | It involves the completion of all partiality , the overcoming of all senses of alienation and it brings a fulfilment of desire for the good and the beautiful beyond the capacity of human understanding . |
| 29 | And it needs a government like ours to feel that in training is a cost . |
| 30 | It hideously complicated music and it needs a lot of concentration … |