Example sentences of "and it [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through subsidies the state has established a vast ‘ social salary ’ to make life easier for workers and it takes a pride in the extensiveness of the welfare system that has developed from this . |
| 2 | And it takes a man and a women to produce a child . |
| 3 | Something here is not quite as it should be , and it takes a while to work out exactly what it is … |
| 4 | This is called ‘ image ’ back-up , and it takes a while . |
| 5 | The ability to select propitious characters in Chinese is a fine art and it takes a student of great learning to transpose an English name into Chinese syllables which convey beauty both in the pictogram character and in meaning , and yet bear some semblance in sound to the original name . |
| 6 | We carve moulds in wood and it takes a craftsman with a spokes have a day to do each one . |
| 7 | And it takes a lot to light up the eyes of a man dying of tuberculosis . |
| 8 | If you are sitting in a very large house on your own , which is draining away your resources because it still has mortgage payments to be met and it takes a lot of money to heat and light every year , you must seriously consider cashing in on your assets by moving to a smaller house that eliminates your mortgage and cuts down on running costs , or by taking out an annuity on your house . |
| 9 | Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready . |
| 10 | Its part is non-transposing and it possesses a compass of three octaves : . |
| 11 | It also wants a market in research , and it promises a mechanism for funding the excess costs of academic teaching and clinical research . |
| 12 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 13 | ‘ And it happens a lot . |
| 14 | So you get this in your hot water cylinder , we can get it in boilers , erm you get it in hot water pipes and it happens a lot in in hard water areas , Scale will dissolve in the acid in the bubbles of Twelve point seven . |
| 15 | And it poses a problem that I can not solve . |
| 16 | And it remains a matter of debate to what extent Luke is exercising editorial privilege in his accounts of the apostolic preaching . |
| 17 | He had obviously assessed the resulting positions before the match and it remains a mystery why Short played such a dubious line . |
| 18 | And it does a steady what shall we have ? |
| 19 | Yeah , you can record on it and it does a C D sound , that sort of thing |
| 20 | This is a mixture of tiredness and a kind of boredom and it produces a deterioration in mental performance . |
| 21 | This is , in effect , a sound lens and it produces a sonic-searchlight with which the animal scans the water ahead of it . |
| 22 | It too easily discards the spiritual dimension of human experience as attributable to some kind of personal or social pathology and it creates a taboo a bit like the one there used to be about sex . |
| 23 | The book 's origins as a special issue of the journal Women 's Studies International Quarterly are all too apparent and it offers a series of partial glimpses rather than a coherent overall picture . |
| 24 | The benefits of gardening as a hobby are wide-ranging : it is satisfying as a pastime with a visible end-product , and it offers a lot of opportunities for meeting like-minded people in a pleasant environment . |
| 25 | And it forms a reference document to the full scope of a quality system . |
| 26 | It is shocking and horrible , and it requires a sense of irony almost to reflect on the fact that this is 1991 — towards the end of the 20th century . |
| 27 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 28 | That 's a must for Irish citizens and it requires a passport photo . |
| 29 | So I take my hat off to any person from any Party who is involved in political life for such a long time because it 's an effort and it requires a sacrifice er not only to the but also to careers and perhaps , most important of all , to family life . |
| 30 | Cool pressurised CO2 , and it becomes a liquid . |