Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is pensioners in particular who paid for British Telecom when it was owned by the State their taxes ensured that the telephone system in the U K , it became amongst the best in the world . |
| 2 | Antiques day at a the , this is the all the places it 's at this Sunday and it 's er , in Chester . |
| 3 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 4 | The name stems from the fact that it was once exported to imperial Russia where it was popular with the Czarist court . |
| 5 | Farah Aydid told a United States journalist in early December that it was his aim to " capture Mahdi " , whom he described in an International Herald Tribune report of Dec. 10 as more corrupt and dictatorial than former President Siyad Barre . |
| 6 | This is true wherever one sees the base of the Cambrian in Britain , it is true in east Greenland , it is true in the Canadian Rockies and it is true in South Australia . |
| 7 | Its lineage reaches back , via the accusations against the Hollywood ‘ talkies ’ and the earliest silent movies , through and beyond the Music Halls at the turn of the century when directly similar complaints were voiced , towards the cheap theatres and penny-gaffs of early Victorian England when it was commonly alleged that the portrayal of the daring exploits of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin caused young people to imitate their crimes , and then back towards the eighteenth century 's disapproval of popular amusements such as fairs , interludes , public shows and minor theatres . |
| 8 | He said the motorcycle was new , and left near the crowded Dadar railway station in central Bombay where it was reported to police by a doctor . |
| 9 | They do n't if that Thursday 's May the first then it 's the second Thursday but it 's normally the first Thursday in May . |
| 10 | The DTI had already announced in early April that it was appointing consultants to consider the practicability of privatising AEA . |
| 11 | A new SABC board will be appointed on 31 March and it is vital that it is independent of both government and party political interests . |
| 12 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 13 | The way in which glacial processes were studied was by investigations in areas including Iceland , Baffin Island , Antarctica , Alaska , Scandinavia , and the European Alps and it was from such research that the understanding and interpretation of past glacial systems was enhanced , as in Scotland by Sissons ( 1967 ) . |
| 14 | Potatoes were planted on Good Friday as it was believed that this was one day on which the Devil had no power to poison and ruin the soil . |
| 15 | The government let it be known in late May that it was planning to close the three Saharan detention camps of Reggane , Ain Salah and Ain M'guel , releasing many of those detained for their radical Islamic sympathies , and moving the others further north . |
| 16 | Early in the new century , for example , the Hooligan 's name was snapped up as far away as Tsarist Russia where it was used to describe crimes as diverse as murder , arson and rape , as well as a wide scatter of mischief such as obscenity , window-breaking and stone-throwing , defacing buildings , singing indecent songs , blocking public thoroughfares , brawling and stealing carriage wheels . |
| 17 | Jack was offered voluntary redundancy in late August and it was confirmed that there was suitable accommodation at the Kings Lodge base . |
| 18 | To obtain highly purified hTFIIIA , the ionic strength of fraction PC A was raised to 0.6 M KCl and it was rechromatographed on a second column of phosphocellulose . |
| 19 | He murmured that he was desperate for an orange to suck , as rare a commodity in 1916 France as it was in Britain during World War II . |
| 20 | Cocom is more relaxed about Eastern Europe than it is about Russia . |
| 21 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 22 | Labour frontbencher Jack Straw and Tory Jim Lester were in an armour-plated Land-Rover when it was hit by a boulder . |
| 23 | Indeed , it has become so well used in relational DBMS that it is described in a separate chapter of this text ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 24 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
| 25 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 26 | The invention of the wheel may be one of the landmarks of the forward march of humankind , but there were still parts of eighteenth-century England where it was of scant practical value . |
| 27 | Wulfhere 's reign is primarily distinguished in the surviving record , however , by his re-establishment of the Mercians as a significant political and military force in southern England and it is difficult to envisage Oswiu , king of the northern Angles , maintaining after c . |
| 28 | we won five one Wednesday and it was me that lost . |
| 29 | I want to get close to his five Majors but it 's so darn hard . |
| 30 | From the later seventh century B.C. the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy but it was the Etruscans who introduced a high culture to the central area of the peninsular . |