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 .
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