Example sentences of "a [noun] it [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in word-processing this key acts in the same way as the typewriter lever that moves the paper up one line , on a computer it is only used to force the word-processor to move one line — usually at the end of a paragraph . |
| 2 | Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab . |
| 3 | As a contest it was neither designed to set the pulses racing nor win converts . |
| 4 | As a result it 's supposedly eyeing the server contingent more seriously and is likely to strengthen its association with the Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corps of the world . |
| 5 | ‘ As a result it is better protected against cold winds than it used to be . ’ |
| 6 | Everyone 's got a skill it 's just having , erm , finding it . |
| 7 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 8 | Again , although it can tolerate freshwater for a while it is best kept in brackish water graduating to marine water prior to maturity . |
| 9 | We ought to include also the northern half of Buckinghamshire in this belt of planned country , for though parliamentary enclosure affected only one acre in three in the county as a whole it was largely concentrated in the plain to the north of the Chilterns . |
| 10 | Er I I think I take Mr 's point that er you would n't go to well a mile it 's really going to be horses for courses is n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 've a feeling it 's inside left , ’ said his caddie Phil Morbey as Woosnam , sleep still in his eyes , emerged with the dawn patrol for that four-footer on the 14th . |
| 12 | Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree . |
| 13 | It 's , it 's erm I think it 's quite interesting cos it 's a different style , in a sense it 's just setting out some goals that they want to achieve but not really giving any clear instruction of how you can achieve those goals . |
| 14 | Solubility : Benzene does not dissolve in water , as it is a liquid it is usually referred to as immiscible with water . |
| 15 | No , no , it , it got oh er erm for other some local teams if have a final it 's sometimes played down there . |
| 16 | The much publicised schism between Adobe and Apple followed by the latter 's siding with Microsoft — a company it was then attacking in the courts — all seems a little strange , especially so as there is no actual product involved , only a ‘ standard ’ . |
| 17 | But I I th I think what we 're talking about is the fact th that Ma you know he 's writing in nineteen twenty seven , that , that he 's not quite sure about the means to an end , he 's sort of writing he , you know , it 's , in a way it 's like writing an essay |
| 18 | Yet , though her reaction was shocking , in a way it was also reassuring . |
| 19 | Each time a ray of light passes through a lens it is slightly weakened . |
| 20 | What a temptation it is then to prolong an interruption , to ask precisely where a lost teddy was last seen before leading the child slowly through every room of this vast house until the creature is found . |
| 21 | That congress is an insult it 's like making a victim of crime pay compensation to the muggers . |
| 22 | In half an hour it was all planned . |
| 23 | After an accident it is often found that maintenance work as well as repairs is necessary and it is quite natural that the Policyholder will want both carried out at the same time . |
| 24 | watched a documentary on it the other night and he said even by kicking someone now , if you do n't have n't , is n't an accident it 's like kissing someone you |
| 25 | This is a direct and primary liability , though after an assignment it is normally accompanied by rights of indemnity against the first assignee , and also , where there have been further assignments , against the assignee in whom the lease is for the time being vested . |