Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cambridge-line passengers , celebrating the establishment of an electric link to Bishop 's Stortford and Liverpool Street , felt short-changed when the only trains BR could offer were facelifted 1960 built Class 305 slam-door stock , actually older than the hauled stock it replaced . |
| 32 | That 's reflected in the kind of stock it sells . |
| 33 | A significant factor was that much of the stock it sells comes from the Scottish side of the border . |
| 34 | Then and we 're always we 're always finding dead stock it seems to me , er then we could give those away on yet another stand , give the cage away on the e on our own so we will actually have provided three , four different treasures , all of which are associated with bearings . |
| 35 | On Kashmir it called for " a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir " and urged adherence by all sides to UN resolutions and the terms of the Simla Accord of 1972 . |
| 36 | The truth is that despite the siting of the creamery it has probably not been made with local products for some time . |
| 37 | I think its just an extreme form of friendship , you 've become extremely friendly with somebody and it can be kind , in love with your , with your girlfriend it do n't have to be in love with your boyfriend , you can have you know some body who 's a same sex and you 've got the same feelings towards them |
| 38 | These mistakes mattered — whereas ‘ in the arts it does n't matter if you foul up . ’ |
| 39 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 40 | While the new law may succeed in exposing the burgeoning volume of ‘ Indian theme ’ objects coming to the US , in the fine arts it has sent some Indian artists on the warpath . |
| 41 | Suffice it to say that in any extended study of the martial arts it warrants closer examination . |
| 42 | According to the printed card it had , until quite recently , been in ( illegal ) service on a farm near Marienborg . |
| 43 | And er so you see on the wedding er card it had on er , Mr and Mrs Shaw request the pleasure of Mrs Abbott at their daughter 's wedding . |
| 44 | Reading through Robert Green 's trade card it seems highly unlikely that a client would want to purchase outright such items as the velvet pall , the room hangings , the large silvered candlesticks and sconces , or the feathers and cloaks , for these objects would be of little or no use to the purchaser once the funeral had taken place . |
| 45 | If the senior creditors refuse to make a deal it likes , the firm will simply file for chapter 11 protection . |
| 46 | But without a political deal it risks turning bad . |
| 47 | According to sources at the highest level , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has ‘ bitten the ideological bullet , ’ and is prepared to step out on the Unix SVR4 road — if it can cut the deal it wants with Unix owner USL . |
| 48 | does she agree that there 's something bizarre in er I certainly agree successful experiment it bringing to an end because it 's a successful experiment , er clearly the policy is only to continue with unsuccessful experiments . |
| 49 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 50 | Indeed , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it suffered an almost total collapse because of the imposition of a tax levied according to the value of goods advertised . |
| 51 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 52 | Over several centuries it had grown into what was now a natural bond . |
| 53 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 54 | But Greece 's have become a lot worse than most other people 's because of a couple of things those centuries it spent under Ottoman rule did to it . |
| 55 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 56 | It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world . |
| 57 | For centuries it has been a buttress against the onslaught of Chaos from the wastes to the north . |
| 58 | In the last two centuries it has also been a source of scholarly controversy amongst historians , theologians and philosophers . |
| 59 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 60 | Through the centuries it has changed at intervals by learning from errors and misfortunes , constantly adapting itself to new situations . |