Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably the largest of all the categories of cheeses and it encompasses many of the traditional British varieties ( see The Great British Eight , p86 ) as well as continental cheeses such as Edam , Chaumes and Pyrenees . |
| 2 | OK , the test is artificial , but it 's a good way to have a look at the main things an integrated package should do , and it answers some of the questions you should ask before you buy . |
| 3 | The Sidney works and others on great estates did their own coaling , though Ralph Hogge of Buxted purchased fuel from independent colliers and it formed one of the biggest items in his accounts . |
| 4 | So he stopped and then it fell , and it fell short of the hundred pound they wanted . |
| 5 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 6 | The Niuas , as the trio are called , are closer to both Samoa and Fiji than to the main Tongan group , and it remains one of the odder quirks of Polynesian history that the islands belong to Tonga at all . |
| 7 | New components are added every year and it remains one of the most comprehensive and effective courses available . |
| 8 | For the time being , however , he did not discard his academic first-class honours and it remains one of the oddities of his life that the first published work of the future Nazi propagandist was a scholarly contribution to the Revue of English Studies in 1928 : ‘ A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel [ a ] in the English of Today . ’ |
| 9 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 10 | There was a great measure of bounce in Peter Marron 's pitch , and it lasted most of the match . |
| 11 | Allison would respond by becoming moody and it soured many of the sessions . |
| 12 | You have up here you 've got neither win lose but it 's like it 's a respectable thing you know you respect each other you do n't trust them completely and you do n't co-operate completely but they just respect just not you 're just not willing to go that further little bit and it becomes more of a more of a rather than a win lose or a win win it 's more of a people half and half okay I 'll give this much if you give that much . |
| 13 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 14 | The figure 's breathing was harsh and uneven now and it seemed incapable of further movement . |
| 15 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
| 16 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 17 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 18 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
| 19 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |
| 20 | Up until 1917 , the Stroganov Palace belonged to the Stroganov family and it contained one of Russia 's largest private art collections . |
| 21 | And it depends most of all on you , in a way you 've led us — ’ |
| 22 | Jabberwocky is a poem that was made up in Wonderland and it describes some of the wonderful creatures to be seen there . |
| 23 | The SOC is based largely on the Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements , published by the International Accounting Standards Committee , and it implements several of the recommendations made in the UK publications The Future Shape of Financial Reports and Making Corporate Reports Valuable . |
| 24 | It is a system of nerves , separate from but connected with the central nervous system , and it controls most of the unconscious activities of our body , together with the responses of arousal , rapid breathing , sweating , and so on , characteristic of the ‘ fight or flight ’ reaction . |
| 25 | About 20,000 people visit the museum each year and it houses some of the finest examples of railway memorabilia . |
| 26 | THE DEVELOPMENT of arms and legs is very important in its own right , and it provides one of the best model systems for analysing how an organ develops once the body plan has been laid down . |
| 27 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 28 | And it gives those of us with a history of less stable relationships a certain amount of hope for the future ! |
| 29 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 30 | These examples indicate some of the features of girl friendly science : it builds on girls ' interests , not just boys ' ; it explicitly encourages girls to see themselves as potential scientists , and it includes some of the social and human implications and applications of science . |