Example sentences of "and the [noun] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 2 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 3 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 4 | In the 1930s , with the threat of war and the knowledge that it might be fought in territories infested with malaria , the need for additional remedies was evident . |
| 5 | The power of instinct , fierce and primitive , and the knowledge that it brings . |
| 6 | But he thought he knew a thing or two about muscles , and the knowledge that it was only a couple of big muscles that were keeping him alive was not comforting . |
| 7 | The predicted demand for ISDN — consultancy Prognos reckons it will be the basis for business networks by the year 2000 — and the likelihood that it will become cheaper over time bodes well for the Highlands . |
| 8 | In turn this difference may affect the stability of the employment , and the likelihood that it will generate further growth in the region concerned . |
| 9 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 10 | For instance , the single entry in the English annals of the monastery between 1100 and 1109 records the inspection of the body of St Elphege in 1105 , and the discovery that it was incorrupt . |
| 11 | Recently , this full-length terracotta Madonna 127 cm high , was sent for conservation and the discovery that it was by the great sculptor Jacopo della Quercia was made , which has caused all the more excitement because it was completely unexpected . |
| 12 | ( Indeed he was pardoned under that name , and the discovery that it was a false one provided an additional pretext for its revocation . ) |
| 13 | Believing in her heart of hearts that Nancy would soften towards her and the child once it arrived and made a niche in her heart . |
| 14 | That association is particularly concerned about a measure that is proceeding through the other place and the question whether it will be dropped and be replaced by the provisions relating to canals in this legislation . |
| 15 | There can be no connection between the appointment and the person unless it is their utter unsuitability for the position . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the human head is structurally rather like a tank of liquid and the consequences when it is struck by a bullet are well-known . |
| 17 | I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with . |
| 18 | The following extract , and the questions after it , are typical of context questions in terms of depth of detail and range of knowledge required . |
| 19 | Rhodes , however , dismisses such comparisons : ‘ I never saw Colin Bland , but from everything I 've heard he 'll be one level higher than any other fielder , just like Bradman and the rest when it comes to batting . |
| 20 | any form of hair replacement that you see down the hai down the street , this gentleman here is just anti-hair and the story whether it 's your hair up there trying to grow it or whatever . |
| 21 | The reaction at the meeting was rather subdued , but at the subsequent interviews most staff expressed their views freely about the way the EPH operated and the purpose that it served . |
| 22 | The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it ‘ disciplines and controls our lads … tames flippancy , quells impertinence , promotes chivalry , encourages reverence , teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority , and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things ’ . |
| 23 | The directive was aimed at Sinn Fein and the UDA but it could not have been the legislators ' intention that the broadcasting authority should be impartial between the terrorists and the terrorised . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns . |
| 25 | Rather , its importance results from where it lies in the circuits of the left hemisphere and the way that it processes the inputs it receives . |
| 26 | The Tory Party had a clear mission which was to break the power of the unions , and the way that it did this was by using the law . |
| 27 | It also ignores the reality that school mathematics , both what is studied and the way that it is taught , is selected by groups within society from a vast range of possible topics and approaches . |
| 28 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 29 | Erm , where the , the authority , not just the County Council , but the authority in the partnership , get involved in lobbying exercises with the , with the government to try to ensure that rural post offices can actually give out vehicle licences , because it 's very , if you look in the north of the county , outside the towns there 's only four post offices , I think , that can actually give out vehicle licences , and yet in the rural areas , we have a lot of people with vehicles , and we , and the way that it counts towards , the way that it counts up towards a post office 's survival , it 's these high value items are significant in keeping post offices open . |
| 30 | It varies in brightness and the way that it varies picks it out . |