Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A radically new urban experience was presented : whereas in the nineteenth century the major urban change was in the formation of tight-knit , high-density conurbations , and between the wars it was in the first flowering of low-density peripheral suburbanization , the second half of the twentieth century has seen metropolitanization as the essential phenomenon . |
| 2 | For the ten-year-olds this score was 1.86 , and for the seven-year-olds it was 4.25 , a difference that was statistically significant . |
| 3 | All the same , Americans are naturally most comfortable with what they know , and Mr Major 's win is obviously welcome to people in power — both for reassuring them about their closest ally in Europe and for the omens it casts on their own politics . |
| 4 | She was silent for a moment , thinking of the drudgery to which Hubert 's vision had condemned her and of the advantages it had denied the children . |
| 5 | It was concerned with the status of itself as an organization and of the degrees it awarded : the question of status was , in Christopherson 's words , ‘ there , but not written in minutes ! ’ |
| 6 | The it comes straight from the coa from the er mines and it 's it 's sent through chutes on these merry-go-round railways that go slow and they stop over this and then it 's all pulverized with heavy steel balls into powder and coal and into the furnaces it 's just blown in . |
| 7 | It might seem a little unreasonable at first sight but believe me this is a possible approach , and under the circumstances it may very well be the best approach . |
| 8 | He came into the witness-box today , and I gather it is his normal mode of locomotion , using two elbow crutches in order to get about , and from the reports it is quite plain that the pain is more or less continuous — I do not say without any intermission at all , but there is constant pain in his hip . |
| 9 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 10 | For ‘ The Phoenix and the Turtle ’ , another poem , a different problem , Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds on an emblematic , almost mystical level : The paradoxes are as bewildering as the mystery of the Holy Trinity : Mysterious and desirable though such a union may be , it is not given to human beings , and in the Sonnets it does not take place . |
| 11 | But the model of management that lay at the heart of this strategy was narrow , both in its conception of what makes the management of public services distinctive and in the lessons it chose to draw from the business world . |
| 12 | " The heart and soul of a resource collection is not material at all : it lies in the structure of thought it exhibits , in the creative association it provokes and in the opportunities it provides for training the young learner in how to learn and think . " |
| 13 | Over the years Mrs. Jarrett had seen many changes , not only in the staff and resident body of the home and in the facilities it now provides , but in government legislation within the various departments of health and social security , with whom she had established for Le Court a strong and trusting relationship . |
| 14 | One of these types is the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and over the years it has attracted a long list of very satisfied customers . |
| 15 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 16 | I 've never needed it , and over the years it has accumulated . |
| 17 | the basic day to day problems that we want to concentrate on and on the challenges it faces . |
| 18 | In this case , Savory alleged that the doctrine of constructive notice was not relevant to this type of commercial transaction and on the facts it would not be regarded as having known that the £13.5m was trust money belonging to Eagle . |
| 19 | By now , though , the sun was directly overhead and on the roofs it was unbearably hot . |
| 20 | In the old villa the labour force had consisted mainly of serfs , or villeins , who were personally free but were tied to the plot of land on which they lived , and to the services it traditionally rendered to the lord , and of slaves , who had no freedom and no land . |
| 21 | The hot water-cylinder should certainly be as near as possible to the boiler — preferably vertically above it — and to the taps it serves . |
| 22 | Its impact on the public was enormous ; and among the figures it most deeply influenced was Albert Schweitzer . |
| 23 | Turnover at the hotels fell 8 p.c. and at the restaurants it was down 1 p.c . |