Example sentences of "and it [vb -s] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it does give farmers the stability they need to plan ahead . |
| 2 | It 's very unusual to find a senior civil servant in France who ca n't speak either good English or good German or both , and it does make communications a lot easier . |
| 3 | It brightens up the place and it gives artists a chance to show what they can do ; and it does encourage others to try their hand at painting or drawing . |
| 4 | I acknowledge that Faber 's is a significant score for a company with a part-time editor-in-chief and a chief executive who wants to split his own job , but at Random House we work harder ( or at least differently ) and it does produce results . |
| 5 | You 've got a box in your head and it 's got rules of those three types , at least those three types . |
| 6 | I mean , you get meters normally , the meters we 've got at work and you just turn a knob and it 's got ohms , volts , amps frequency you know , whatever . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's called Ice Hill , and it 's got tunnels in it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In contrast , P. A. Firby and C. F. Gardiner 's Surface Topology is accessible , includes vector fields and the homotopy group , and it 's got pictures ! |
| 9 | No , cos the water 's not coming up above your face , the water 's filled the whole going down and it 's got gates . |
| 10 | It gives them an excuse to use the riot vans — and it beats booking drivers for speeding . |
| 11 | It has a small head , its arms are upraised and it appears to wear trunks supported by a thick twisted cable round the waist . |
| 12 | She 's obviously examined the animal excreta very closely because she says it 's black and it appears to contain berries . |
| 13 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
| 14 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 15 | A traffic survey is being carried out at Sappers Corner , an accident blackspot on the outskirts of Hartlepool , and it has raised hopes that improvement works may be carried out by Cleveland County Council . |
| 16 | The arrangement of the Local Management of Schools is one of the best initiatives of the Conservative Government and it has freed schools from the heavy-handed control of Local Government , and in particular that of Labour controlled Authorities because it 's a step into the unknown for some , with obviously some doubt at first , and many Labour Groups fed on those doubts with lies and threats but nevertheless it was taken up wholeheartedly by many schools . |
| 17 | It is a total package , well-thought-out and administered — and it has paid dividends . |
| 18 | ‘ Our losses were mainly due to promotional activity from our rivals , but we decided to fight back and it has paid dividends . |
| 19 | And it has galvanised others , such as Russia 's president , Boris Yeltsin , to stand by them . |
| 20 | The critical moment was not folly , and it has left monuments which , though now mostly neglected , deserve to last . |
| 21 | ‘ We switched Brian further forward with half an hour to go at Portsmouth three matches ago and it has produced results , ’ said manager Malcolm Crosby . |
| 22 | It is staffed by three fulltime teachers , and its aims are similar to the Arbour Project in that it provides continuing education , it takes girls through their pregnancies physically , educationally , emotionally and socially to produce healthy babies and mothers , and it tries to help girls achieve a level of maturity for taking on responsible parenthood . |