Example sentences of "[adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 32 | My voice was high and it shook and I did n't convince even myself . |
| 33 | The novice chase received an entry of 12 and it looks as though a handful of runners will go to post . |
| 34 | At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 35 | The computer was twenty thousand years old and it wanted to be friends with me ! |
| 36 | Well , in the beginning , erm , this is an interview before they start rehearsing one evening , or like , what they each other play , and they 're just talking about how they met and everything , cos they , the vocalist and the guitarist met in a chip shop , and knocked all the chips everywhere , and then he er , the guitarist talks about , erm , he met , I mean , he knows a drummer that 's free and it turns out that it 's the vo vocalist 's vocalist 's brother . |
| 37 | scale is not linear and it puts enormous weight on being alive and not much on whether you are active or working . |
| 38 | yeah west side is very popular and it tends to be the area where we get the older properties as well so that 's encouraging |
| 39 | The contract hire scheme is by far the most popular and it attacts over 90% of new car applications . |
| 40 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 41 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |
| 42 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 43 | the same as still er raw and it did n't dawn on me , but then , oh I says it 's got ta be , I said it 's got ta be the |
| 44 | It 's smart , effective , ecologically sound and it does pop in such a thirst-rousing way . |
| 45 | It is an unfortunate excrescence on a democratic policy which is essentially sound and it follows from this that , with the right ideological tools and political elbow grease , racism can be dealt with once and for all , leaving the basic structures and relations of British economy and society essentially unchanged . |
| 46 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 47 | Literally , and then you have to sit there with this cream on , and it 's all very fiddly and messy and it smells . |
| 48 | She said the notice was very detailed and it had taken longer than expected to draw up . |
| 49 | I find it unpleasant and it gives me an allergy so I 'd rather you did n't from my point of view . |
| 50 | He said , like coming to this well for your jug of water every day it 's alright while i , the jug , there 's some in the jug , but when you 've drunk it all the jug 's empty and it does n't do a thing for you ! |
| 51 | The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed . |
| 52 | The smaller British fund had been licensed to operate by the DTI since 1985 and it had known about the business as far back as 1975 . |
| 53 | A second retirement followed in 1985 and it looks as though Lauda is going to stick to his word this time . |
| 54 | Unlike many psychodynamic theories , this one is at least susceptible to proof or disproof and it has just been comprehensively disproved . |
| 55 | ‘ From the case cited [ Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 ] in the course of the argument it is shown that the principle has been laid down that , where one exacts money from another and it turns out that although acquiesced in for years such exaction is illegal , the money may be recovered as money had and received , since such payment could not be considered as voluntary so as to preclude its recovery . |
| 56 | Liked to pull that down that 's a normal hip joint , this is your bony pelvis with the socket joint , right , socket , this is your leg bone the femur , with the head of the femur at the top and it looks like that and they fit into one another and it forms a very good swinging joint you can do all sorts of things with your hip joint , ca n't you ? |
| 57 | Such an approach forces managers to communicate with one another and it helps break down rigid departmental boundaries . |
| 58 | I mean , er FIMBRA can do its regulatory bit , the same as the police can regulate or the , or the government can regulate , but only within certain er parameters , and if somebody really wants to cheat , then they will cheat anyway and er we 've go we 're in a very sophisticated position where the directors of B C C I were able to move money from one continent to another and it meant er it looked as if you 'd actually got money in three separate areas , but in fact there was only one lot and it was being moved rapidly . |
| 59 | Clearly , the structure and mode of operation of mixed professional — paraprofessional teams will vary from one setting to another and it needs to be acknowledged that in a variety of situations it would be an inappropriate social service practice model . |
| 60 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |