Example sentences of "it 's [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It 's turned full circle , has n't it ? |
| 32 | ‘ It 's seen better days . ’ |
| 33 | During its time in Oxfordshire it 's seen active duty most recently in the Gulf War . |
| 34 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 35 | And it says , It 's given that X is less than three centimetres from P . |
| 36 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |
| 37 | It 's given these youngsters from Thamesdown Drama Studios their first taste of professional theatre . |
| 38 | ‘ It 's done six Auto shows , and 26 stops on Iacocca 's '90s tour and its never failed once , ’ said its minder . |
| 39 | It 's done funny things to my head . |
| 40 | The company says its experience this time through is different from when the first Snakes were delayed by shortfalls in the Texas Instruments Inc-produced floating point unit because it 's controlling all design and all fabrication . |
| 41 | ‘ It 's encouraging that work is being made which refuses this ridiculous demand for positive images , which tries to take on multiple aspects of identity . |
| 42 | I said , you know , it 's costing fifteen pound a week in a , a least and you you 're you 're paying ten and he said , no he said , he said I think that 's ample , he said . |
| 43 | Yeah , I mean it it 's a home office ruling that it 's allowing local authorities to eat the fee . |
| 44 | But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles . |
| 45 | Either it 's causing ill health or it 's affecting your relationships . |
| 46 | It 's organisers say it 's for everyone and it 's receiving public funding . |
| 47 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 48 | ‘ I suppose it 's to enable blasted Bertha to remain in it — just when you have the opportunity to get her out . |
| 49 | across and it 's touching that hole in the middle and she 's getting all blocked up and the stuff 's running all the way down the back of your throat , that right ? |
| 50 | It 's called mutual respect and it 's the opposite of subordination . |
| 51 | It 's called Revolutionary Youth . ’ |
| 52 | It 's called rape , it 's called indecent assault , it 's it 's um er understood in the same way that sex crimes against adults are understood and erm if you look at um y'know kind of er very young kinds um according to some people called Daley and Wilson , I ca n't remember whether I 've mentioned these on the handout but I 've I 've got some notes here . |
| 53 | And it 's called Fancy Goods |
| 54 | It 's called Fancy Goods . |
| 55 | erm it 's an old one and it 's called Fancy Fish and we were sorting our videos out to list 'em and then we 'll make a list and then we 'd let you have and then if you want a video and that , you know what you got and we were looking through this Fancy Fish and it 's erm I do n't know if you remember it , it shows an open show at Oxford |
| 56 | It 's called Penal Island , thirty miles from Koraloona . |
| 57 | It 's called Two Gentlemen of Veronna ? |
| 58 | And s and that 's really the main reason why this new sector has been brought up , it 's been ca it 's called first call |
| 59 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 60 | Yeah , cos it 's called Early Learning Centre . |