Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] and it [is] " in BNC.

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1 Therefore , under normal circumstances , the effect of drying can supplement the use of a disinfectant and it is good practice to combine disinfection with drying .
2 Erm you go down a bit of a lane and it 's gets you on the through road does n't it ?
3 I know you mean well and I do appreciate all you 're doing , but I really am in the middle of a thought and it 's very difficult for me when you keep … look , if it 's really , really important , then please do interrupt me — but only if it 's urgent , OK ?
4 It was the back of a postcard and it 's like so much else of this Government 's policy .
5 There is no mention of a monastery and it is likely the Ripon reference has been confused with the ‘ Stanford ’ entry .
6 Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ?
7 This is the one that was used in this article to illustrate the knitting of a rectangle and it is shown here in the form that it appears in many publications .
8 But if he had no bill and or did n't pick it up , you 'd tell the proprietor that he must take his own proceedings — he 's swindled you out of the price of a meal and it 's a civil action .
9 Other advantages are that employees working direct for a company are often better motivated than those of an intermediary and it is easier to control a subsidiary because it is under the parent company 's direct control .
10 It , it is a form of an obsession and it is an excitement and there 's a warmth and there 's a funniness about it and it just wonderful , better being in love than not being in love surely .
11 Geoff Wragg , the trainer of those colts , said : ‘ It 's the end of an era and it 's nice to go out on a high .
12 And they could find themselves with , you know , somebody asking for a thousand of an item and it 's well worth their while therefore , spending a bit of money getting it there .
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