Example sentences of "and it [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In skipper Chris Dickson 's words : ‘ We 've dug ourselves a pretty big hole and it 's getting dark down there . ’ |
| 2 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 3 | The poll tax , and it 's planned replacement the council tax have been targetted by Labour in the general election campaign . |
| 4 | ‘ We are trying to play a different type of game and it 's taking time for some of the players to get used to it . |
| 5 | In practice brute consistency breeds believability and it 's unflagging consistency that convinces others of personal commitment . |
| 6 | Again that , that is , is very clear and it 's representing initiation rituals . |
| 7 | Technically it can not , physically it can not , because we have such erm large programmes of development that you need the manpower , you need the muscle , and the majority of them have left now and that 'll be a new dilemma for Kuwait and it 's rebuilding operation to bring back people to help develop with it 's own Kuwaiti |
| 8 | And it 's say sine is A over B or something . |
| 9 | And it 's winning margin in the last election was only 1,300 votes . |
| 10 | Then the top is sealed , and it is smoked upside down . |
| 11 | We do have the Wolfe report but unfortunately not for the want of effort , the Wolfe report is turning out like the Black report and others and I do n't say that because there was a gentleman who done a report Black and it is gathering dust , the Wolfe report is on the same shelf , I believe . |
| 12 | And it is repeated time and again around the Ocean 's western margin . |
| 13 | The Banbury-based design house built cars for the ill-fated Andrea Moda team in 1992 and it is believed Bravo F1 will purchase equipment from the defunct Italian outfit . |
| 14 | And it is hoped work will continue after the initial two years , perhaps with support from the business community nearby . |
| 15 | ‘ Change-orientation ’ is the youngest and it is gaining ground . |
| 16 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 17 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 18 | This treaty was enlarged and extended on 24 June 1931 and it was given material expression in Afghan neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 19 | On April 11 , 1990 , Czechoslovakia formally applied to join the Council of Europe , and it was granted observer status on May 7 [ see below for Havel 's address on May 10 ] . |
| 20 | And it was rewarded faith . |
| 21 | The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock . |
| 22 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 23 | I tied a fly which was extremely successful and it was called Hordern Pheasant Tail Nymph . |
| 24 | But , all the same , she would n't feel safe until they were finally aboard the train and it was heading south out of Central Station . |
| 25 | The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies . |
| 26 | For instance , I was writing a new song and it was making sense and suddenly these words came into my head : Once there was two Mexican women/ran over the hill/ripped off their skin/and ate it up . |
| 27 | Just like girls were there , I was there and it was making love , that 's all I saw it as . |
| 28 | Eight men were to be charged the following March with conspiracy in Chicago , and it was to provide cause célèbre by proxy for the British radical movements . |
| 29 | In fact , Christy 's hitting a wood for his second shot and it was going way to the left . |
| 30 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |