Example sentences of "and it [vb -s] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Business was brisk in the last quarter of 1992 and it continues to be encouraging as we settle into 1993 . ’ |
| 2 | If we try to shoe or float a horse , and it decides to be uncooperative , and we retaliate with force and anger so that the horse becomes anxious and fearful ; the horse will remember that such a situation terrified it . |
| 3 | We need such data and it needs to be sensitive to regional variations . |
| 4 | Well what I 've been using is Vick and it seems to be burning . |
| 5 | Thus land development was important for capital when North Shields was being put together as an industrial town and it seems to be important again when its industrial base is being taken apart . |
| 6 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 7 | And it has to be perfect before I shall allow you to go on to petit point . ’ |
| 8 | However , the specialist team is distinguished by a particular approach , featuring high throughput of cases , and it has to be uncertain at this stage whether this is a consequence of its specialism or of an underlying distinction in the conception of social work that it may represent — what we have called a ‘ deep ’ structure . |
| 9 | When the body is elastic , the strain converts kinetic into potential energy … like drawing the string of a longbow , or winding the spring of a clock , or charging an electrical condensor , or filling a balloon with hot air … and it looks to be alive . |