Example sentences of "and [adj] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 the ‘ fiction theory ’ must remain unsatisfactory unless it can explain what are the real facts in terms of individual rights and duties which underlie the fiction , and this it seems unable to do .
2 Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) .
3 Between 1851 and 1918 it bought 30 other banks .
4 We turned back to the sprawling baggage , so profuse and various it seemed organic , mushrooming in the rich compost of arrivals and departures .
5 It was n't much , compared to Store food , but to nomes who had spent all day hungry and miserable it smelled good .
6 But gradually in the l950s and 1960s it became clear that , though the economy had grown considerably since 1945 , the UK was not keeping up with its rivals abroad .
7 During 1967 and 1968 it received some one hundred and fifty cards or letters every day .
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