Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The heart and soul of a resource collection is not material at all : it lies in the structure of thought it exhibits , in the creative association it provokes and in the opportunities it provides for training the young learner in how to learn and think . " |
| 2 | Most young readers , and I was one of them , were bored by the seeming ponderousness of so much of the narration and probably gave up too soon to grasp the understanding of the American Indian mind it offers and the rapport that can be achieved with an understanding white man , here the legendary ‘ Hawkeye ’ . |
| 3 | The relatively cheap and rapid transportation it provided and the elasticity of capacity the companies boasted gave a powerful boost to the mass holiday-making industry . |
| 4 | We were in line with the Craven fault it seemed and in an electric storm the tower and all its domestic equipment spat and sizzled like a jumping cracker . |
| 5 | Throughout the 1920s filmed melodrama continued to use whatever social setting it required and poverty and urban misery were faithfully reproduced whenever necessary as on occasions were the realities of work in coal-mines , steelworks , and more frequently dockyards . |
| 6 | Packets leaving the wrapping machine still passed over the checkweigher as before but now , instead of merely passing or rejecting each pack , the computer captured the data it measured and performed various analyses including the average weight and standard deviation for each hour . |
| 7 | This village is noted for the amount of sun it receives and for its long pebble beach . |
| 8 | How this community developed along the intensely nationalistic lines it did and the subsequent crisis resulting from the clash of ‘ German ’ chemistry with the revolutionary ‘ French ’ chemistry , forms the main thrust of this excellent book . |
| 9 | For , with some qualifications which do not much affect the main point , he suggests that when we give reasons for an ethical statement we are typically making factual claims acceptance of which we hope will cause others to have the attitude it expresses and he distinguishes this sharply from the case where one statement gives some kind of logical or rational support to another . |
| 10 | I think the most attractive feature of being a pluralist is the independence it gives and that has certainly been borne out in my experience . |
| 11 | I have never been able to remove the inevitable bright yellow stain it produces and neither has any other paper conservator that I know . |
| 12 | As they broke bread it spurted and dripped blood , and their mirth was the rattle in a dying man 's throat . |
| 13 | In some cases a party may effectively exclude liability by including a comprehensive list of the duties it undertakes and making it clear that the list is exclusive . |
| 14 | Although it is the coroner 's court 's function simply to find the cause of death , under what circumstances it happened and who , if anybody , is to be charged and with what , many members of the public plus the national papers were speaking as if Drew had already been indicted . |
| 15 | do n't be a Rodney it says , do n't be a Rodney it says and spend a Jeffrey on a cat and bob , do n't be a plonker and spend two thousand pounds that 's what he played , paid to the prostitutes , do you remember ? |
| 16 | The then editor of The Architectural Review , J.M. Richards , offered an affectionate description of the English suburb in The castles on the ground ( 1946 ) , which instead of pouring scorn on suburban taste , took more seriously the needs it fulfilled and the impulses that created it . |
| 17 | As you know , at the moment it starts and five , but ideally perhaps it could start younger , but obviously there are financial considerations as well . |
| 18 | The membership issue now has the profile it deserves and demands at Table , Area and National levels and this must be continued . |
| 19 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 20 | The whole joint family is on the scene , bearing the onslaught of British society and groaning with agony as a result groaning on the one hand because of the intense racism and poverty it faces and on the other because of the confusions caused by the irrelevance in Britain of its most valued concepts . |
| 21 | She gasped at the exquisite sensation it aroused and tried to snatch her hand from his grasp . |
| 22 | The Howie Report receives details scrutiny from , who explores the different messages it contains and relates them to Scotland 's past and future . |
| 23 | The Company will benefit because of the tax it saves and the resulting improvement in earnings in 1993–94 . |
| 24 | It is important to remember that fleece is a FLOATING CLOCHE and should only be supported by the plants it protects and is by definition just that — a material to ‘ float ’ over the crop supported only by the crop . |
| 25 | Narrative obtains and holds the interest of its audience by raising questions in their minds about the process it describes and delaying the answers to these questions . |
| 26 | A strange phenomenon of bamboo is that , dependent on which variety , after so many years it flowers and then dies . |
| 27 | The government in turn accused the FMLN of compiling a dishonest inventory of the number of weapons it held and of having staged illegal land occupations after the signing of the peace treaty in order to boost its land tenure claims . |
| 28 | ‘ Normally , I would shoot through anything — but that day it rained and rained and there was nothing to be done about it , ’ Gerald says . |
| 29 | Next day it rained and rained … |
| 30 | What time of day it rises and sets in the sky depends on the relative erm placing in the in the heavens of the earth and moon and sun . |