Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adj] and [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
2 | But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that . |
3 | I can scarcely believe the King is dead and think it just a rumour . |
4 | Eraut ( 1977 ) adopts a process viewpoint when he argues that : ‘ A teacher who is not developing to any noticeable extent is becoming a worse teacher , because development is natural and to avoid it is to deteriorate ’ . |
5 | Now that number is small and decreasing it seems to me . |
6 | And as depressed parents can have a deleterious effect on their children 's behaviour and vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance ( Rutter , 1966 ) , the number of people who can be affected in some way by the disorder is substantial and marks it out as one of the most important psychiatric conditions . |
7 | She saw his glass was empty and filled it . |
8 | Where a spoken sentence is long and complicated it is more likely to be PARATACTIC ; this means it is likely to be a string of sentences tied together with " and " , " or " , or " but " . |
9 | Another example which serves to illustrate this view of citizenship as apolitical is the decision taken by a Conservative-controlled local authority , Barnet , in 1987 to refuse to allow political groups such as CND or Amnesty International to take part in a community festival ( the Court of Appeal found that this decision was unlawful and struck it down , too late to save the festival ) . |
10 | It has been argued that these divisions within the working class are unreconcilable and prevent it acting as a strong , united , radical force . |
11 | The Saudis said such a protest was un-Islamic and denied it could have happened . |