Example sentences of "and it [vb mod] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stuff , erm , I 'll I 've got a disk that does interesting little joined up lines , and there 's one where you can just put numbers in yourself and it 'll draw all sorts of pictures for you |
| 2 | Although this may be a couple of years out of date , it only costs £3 and it may give some clues as to the strength of the company . |
| 3 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 4 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 5 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 6 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 7 | Attitudes in excess of this will cause the gyro to topple , and it will require several minutes to re-erect . |
| 8 | The idea is a strange one and it will require some preliminaries before it can be explained . |
| 9 | A successful program of this type is no more than a computerization of traditional classroom method , and it will teach most children effectively , with the added advantages of constant individual attention and limitless patience . |
| 10 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 11 | In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness . |
| 12 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 13 | There are particular muscles which seem to carry most of the burden , and it can take several sessions to help them become relaxed . |