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

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1 one hour and eleven minutes it said on there
2 Aside from those who were involved in intellectual and political movements it was an open question how far mental health experts would be received into the bosom of the target population .
3 Because the pattern of trading in the first year of the market was so confined by technical and political constraints it would be unsafe to generalise from it .
4 Surrounded by extensive and enclosed grounds it is perfect for children who can play in complete freedom while their elders relax on the lawns that gently slope down to an attractive swimming pool .
5 Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials .
6 Fortunately , with improved surgical and technical techniques it is now possible to operate on the cataracts of newborn children within the first ten days of life in some cases , and this is considered by some consultants to be advisable .
7 Adorned with marble , mirrors and chandeliers , sweeping staircases and rich silks it is lavish , opulent and elegant .
8 In its nine chapters and 234 pages it clearly bridges the gap between psychological theories and nursing practice .
9 Given the conservative treatment of revenues from lands , customs and feudal dues it is remarkable that the peacetime account of the Crown should have remained so healthy .
10 Since the sequence of words in a sentence is subject to grammatical and semantic constraints it is possible to build a probabilistic model for this purpose .
11 Some weeks it 's in her head , some weeks it 's in her chest and some weeks it 's in her legs .
12 I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago !
13 In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense .
14 The backing of the union is not only important because of the information and clerical services it provides to strikers applying for supplementary benefit , but also , perhaps , because it evokes a more sympathetic treatment from the supplementary benefit officers .
15 Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule .
16 Before considering the implications of sexuality for personal and social problems it may be well to take a look at present-day outlooks upon sex in our society and to the norms and mores which exist in the community as a whole .
17 The South therefore includes countries like Saudi Arabia with about 10m people and a GNP per capita of $12,230 per annum ; however , most of its income is derived from oil exports and investment income , and in economic and social terms it is still regarded as an underdeveloped country .
18 From the complaints of British and French merchants it is clear that the colonial trade was ceasing to be a ‘ device by which was canalized , under royal control , the supply of goods from the rest of Europe ’ .
19 He is right : by both Mughal and French standards it is a large but hardly dramatic garden .
20 Hardcore porn is openly traded in the cities and exhibited in cinemas and video shops across the country , despite experimental zoning restrictions in certain areas , yet there has been little or no attempt in the courts or the legislatures to discriminate between the greater and lesser dangers it represents .
21 Santa Cruz Operation Inc is circulating a 135-page spiral-bound octavo-sized ‘ SCO Hardware Compatibility Handbook , ’ listing the 200 systems and 800 peripherals it supports and tweaking SunSoft Inc for being able to do the same for Solaris 2.0 on a single sheet of paper .
22 It is not necessary to adopt a ‘ systems ’ theory approach , interrelating the background conditions within a social system , in order to recognise that when some particular aspect of another country 's industrial relations is removed from its social , political and cultural surroundings it may then lose its validity and rationale .
23 For these and other linguistic and cultural reasons it is relatively easy for the speaker of one Bantu language to learn another and develop a high level of competence in it .
24 With the handing over to the Council of Europe in 1960 of the social and cultural responsibilities it had inherited from the Treaty of Brussels , it seemed that to all intents and purposes WEU had become moribund .
25 Among many nomadic and tribal peoples it was often the only medium of creative release , and even in the more sophisticated cultures of Persia , China and Ottoman Turkey , weaving has always ranked alongside painting , architecture , sculpture and ceramics as a valid and celebrated visual art .
26 However , in turbulent and windy conditions it is always better to play safe and land into wind in another field , rather than to make a downwind landing .
27 In two cases involving admirable heroines and dubious companions it is hard to separate the two categories .
28 There is more but just this sample suggests the deep and unintelligible waters it is easy to fall into when trying to be explicit about multimedia .
29 Top clubs do n't need to get involved , but to non-League and lower-division teams it is a tempting alternative .
30 For both family farmers and part-time farmers it was essential to set dates well in advance of courses to allow sufficient time for organisation of work or time off from an off-farm job .
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