Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 2 | Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy . |
| 3 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 4 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 5 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 6 | and it takes these batteries and everything and she says I 'll pick them up eleven cock , o'clock on Friday |
| 7 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 8 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 10 | The diameter of its mouth is 9½ feet and it weighs 17 tons — the largest bell in Britain . |
| 11 | One shop window in Covent Garden was devoted entirely to a display of this book , and it received coveted reviews in the quality press . |
| 12 | The stated objective of this new contract is to improve the standard of general practice and it proposes substantial changes in the way general practice is structured and financed . |
| 13 | Steering through foliage at night , it needs good accommodation and it achieves 5 dioptres by changing the shape of its lens and having a corrugated retina . |
| 14 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
| 15 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 16 | It passes among Lakeland 's most exciting summits and beautiful dales without crossing over itself or backtracking , and it avoids commercialised areas . |
| 17 | I and I daresay others round this table , have experience of other counties who 've adopted that approach , or other panels who 've adopted that approach and it creates endless problems and endless appeals debating what is a windfall and what should be in the plan and what should be not . |
| 18 | all the memory cells and it destroys recent ones so she ca n't remember things from recent but she can remember things from years and years and years ago , it 's really funny . |
| 19 | And desire is starving and its belly grows huge but its lungs continue to process air and it lights small fires everywhere . |
| 20 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 21 | The declaration on the formation of the FRY stated that the FRY would be ready to recognize the former Yugoslav republics which had declared independence , after " outstanding questions " had been negotiated , and it denied territorial claims . |
| 22 | Detecting water movements helps many insects of fast-flowing streams to maintain their position , and it alerts aquatic leeches to the approach of animals which might provide a meal of blood . |
| 23 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 24 | sort of bits , I 've got a bit here and it says all landlords may be liquidated immediately you know |
| 25 | And it says two families discover how the divide between the north and south is narrowing . |
| 26 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 27 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 28 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 29 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 30 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |