Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both high income commuters and lower income residents may resent development of this kind : the one because it interferes with their fantasy of the rural life , and the other because it pushes up house prices without providing any new job opportunities . |
| 32 | Our general topic of discussion is perceptual consciousness and the problem that it constitutes for physicalism . |
| 33 | The human brain , and the body that it controls , can not do more than one or a few things at once . |
| 34 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 35 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 36 | Cos it comprises a checklist encompassing the major requirements necessary to complete and the project and it helps to identify the processes involved , and the stage to which are to be taken , for the s for the successful completion of the project . |
| 37 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 38 | IT WAS a meeting of the Lady and the Tramp and it looked like fun . |
| 39 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 40 | Over time , those rules will be altered : in many cases slowly as responses to gradual changes in both the society and the environment that it occupies ; in some cases rapidly , as a reaction to a sudden crisis ; and occasionally as a consequence of contact with other cultures , when changes may be either voluntarily adopted , because the impacted group has observed the benefits from doing something differently , or imposed by powerful external groups . |
| 41 | Following the publication of the survey containing details of the radio pulsar and the announcement that it emits γ -rays , we observed the region on a further three epochs in May , June and July 1992 . |
| 42 | And the baby as it suckles has no idea that they are separate beings . |
| 43 | It was one of those occasions that had everybody looking , both staff and the queue and it set a mood for the day — and , indeed , the week . |
| 44 | A huge figure for any programme , but what Was it the quality of the scripts and the fact that it starred David Jason ? |
| 45 | In addition to its value for historical purposes , and the fact that it involves learning through doing , the practice of oral history offers many bonuses in respect of personal and social skills ( especially the skill of learning to listen ) . |
| 46 | With my responsibility for small firms , the House will not be surprised that I for one would robustly defend the exemption level and the fact that it helps small firms in the industry . |
| 47 | Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used . |
| 48 | Your job description covers a multitude , and the fact that it frames the needs of the business , does n't it ? |
| 49 | When Symphony was originally launched in July 1984 it was the first integrated business software package and the fact that it comprised a spreadsheet , word processing , database , graphics and communications led it to be acclaimed as having a good user interface and being a very complex and powerful program . |
| 50 | But two major problems were encountered ; the cable 's weight and the fact that it fell short of its intended destination . |
| 51 | That , complained Nicholson , was because of the full-frontal nudity , and the fact that it had someone who ‘ was fucking and having an audible orgasm . |
| 52 | Knowing that he was unquestionably going to die , and not knowing how or when , had been a strain , and the fact that it had been so much easier for him than might have been the case was a great relief . |
| 53 | Interest and miscellaneous expenses were , however , quite a different matter , and the fact that it had been in the nature of his employment to disburse vast and unspecified amounts , as he put it , ‘ upon the simple word of the treasurer ’ , who had died in 1635 , did not help matters . |
| 54 | Now you 'll be familiar with the fact since we went through it in April that there has been a sharp jump in our known assets brought about by the sale of Elsivir and the fact that it had a very substantially written down value in our books , seventy five million pounds . |
| 55 | Coun Carr said the council 's budget had all-party support and the fact that it had been ignored by Mr Howard showed the futility of an appeal . |
| 56 | The only criteria of ‘ science ’ we are left with are its ‘ openness ’ and the fact that it takes place ‘ entirely in thought ’ . |
| 57 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 58 | Because my hair is dry I could really see and feel the difference and the fact that it did n't leave a coating or residue on my hair was great for me . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ The bridge was too high for a good angle anyway and the fact that it blocked the view of so many meant that the atmosphere never developed properly , so that the cameras had nothing convey . |
| 60 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |