Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [noun sg] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , yes , we all know that , but if it gives the autograph seeker pleasure and it takes only a moment of your time , then it seems pointless not to oblige . |
| 2 | Er , I 've now added the research approval form and it 's become a related document here but in the original allocation of forms , the responsibility for keeping this up to date was not mine . |
| 3 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 4 | The Kerry has an unusually long history as a specialist dairy breed and it has been suggested that it was being bred for milk production in early Irish Celtic times when , it is thought , milk formed a major part of the people 's diet , either fresh or preserved in various ways . |
| 5 | Information & Business Systems Tirana , a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co , says it has won a $480,000 tender financed by the European Community to computerise Albanian government institutions : the project consists in supplying and installing 350 base units to the government offices , Reuter reports ; the company says it has already donated a Precision Architecture RISC Unix system worth $250,000 to the Tirana Polytechnic University and it hopes to sell another system in Albania within the next year . |
| 6 | They requested Bowden to give a road-side breath test and it proved positive . |
| 7 | While more ambitious retailers diversified , Sainsbury stuck to its core customer base and it has paid off . |
| 8 | It took Victoria just two decades to climb virtually the full length of the international road safety league table and it did so by actively engaging many organised elements of society . |
| 9 | Strengthening was by an armoured shield of 7.6mm iron wire and it established the standard for undersea cable design for years to come . |
| 10 | It 's it 's on a little table at the end which says rate card analysis and it had T V areas Yorkshire T V North East T V and then principle main secondary local corner shop other and totals numbers in the middle . |
| 11 | Athena is part of the Pentos Group which also owns Ryman and the Dillons bookshop chain and it has a substantial organisation which goes into play to support new franchisees . |
| 12 | It has a 70% crystal content and it does n't alter its shape or size one iota . |
| 13 | The Top-selling hardback in the British book trade leading up to Christmas 1991 was Pauline Cockrill 's The Ultimate Teddy Bear Book and it had held its position among the top ten hardbacks for over two months . |
| 14 | This is the Berthold specimen book and it worries me , because everything looks as if it 's supposed to sit in a line of eighteen point display , you know , sort of specimen setting , saying this is |
| 15 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 16 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 17 | Detectives were alerted by Central Nottinghamshire Health Care Trust and it 's understood their inquiries will take some time . |
| 18 | Now this is your charity , it 's called the R Y A Seamanship Foundation and it does have close links with the R Y A but it is independent and is d is dependent upon raising money from donations and other sources like that . |
| 19 | Kauntze had some harsh words to say about the St Leger entry system and it seems as if this will be renewed for next year . |
| 20 | Kauntze had some harsh words to say about the St Leger entry system and it seems as if this will be renewed for next year . |
| 21 | It was n't , it was a country STD code and it matched the number printed on the Exhilarator leaflet for Pegasus Farm . |
| 22 | Well my favourite shrub is , er must be the Charles Austin which is a rather nice one , it 's a cream well scented modern English shrub rose and it grows to about , well up here anyway in Scotland where I am it grows something like erm four to six feet and another one well , erm Aloha , it 's a delicious scented pink and a strong growing rose er fairly upright but erm quite a good one and again it grows to be about five to six feet with us . |
| 23 | Hydrogen you can think of very much as a fuel in the manner of north sea gas and it 's got a high calorific value , it burns well and , despite rumours , it 's actually a very safe fuel as well . |
| 24 | and , there were a big family meat pie and it had |
| 25 | Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach . |