Example sentences of "[adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ! |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Unlike many psychodynamic theories , this one is at least susceptible to proof or disproof and it has just been comprehensively disproved . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 36 | The Lycoming 0–320 B3B engine is very reliable and it has a TBO of 2000 hours but only when half inch valves are fitted . |
| 37 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
| 38 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 39 | And it was real crisp and it had prawn in it . |
| 40 | The new style is bright and crisp and it reflects the thorough , professional approach adopted by the college . ’ |
| 41 | People know this , they identify with this , they recognise that you 're back-tracking and it looks as though your ke case is hereby weakened . |
| 42 | No I looked on the virginal and it had more saturates in than this |
| 43 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 44 | Portadown however remained dangerous and it took a superb block from Michael Smyth to deny Cunningham after brilliant work from Martin Russell on the left . |
| 45 | and I just , I threw buckets of water on it to rinse it , and it dried because it was really warm and it came up like new |
| 46 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 47 | ‘ It was warm and personal and it felt right for him , ’ says Marie . |
| 48 | Our Susan and Vera saga in Bewley 's is not that far-fetched and it replaces negative comment in many cases . |
| 49 | The key issue is straightforward and it arises from a simple fact . |
| 50 | They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting . |
| 51 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 52 | A geographical area to work in if that is appropriate and it does not interfere with existing house-to-house and street collections . |
| 53 | At this temperature the molten rock is at its least viscous and it flows downhill as a fiery river , splashing and bounding over minor irregularities like a mountain stream , and cascading over larger obstacles in glowing fire-falls . |
| 54 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 55 | I do n't know where the name came from it , it , it 's , it 's , it 's simple and it seemed to work erm |
| 56 | Fine for some , sure , but a P-bass is very simple and it sounds bloody good . |
| 57 | It 's simple and it means most of my clothes mix and match really well . ’ |
| 58 | Betty ignored this , because it was too simple and it detracted from her role of comforter . |
| 59 | To be effective , an innovation has to be simple and it has to be focused . |
| 60 | The method is simple and it relies on the duck 's instinct to try to chase away a threatening fox . |