Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools run themselves some have left the authority , we still have three education sub committees a major education committee , numerous sub groups and working parties and it 's gone time we recognised the changing world and streamlined the members side of the education department in the same way that the officer side 's been streamlined and slimmed down . |
| 2 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 3 | The reality is that we are dealing with half of a metropolitan region because it is manageable on this scale for the study of residential patterns and it makes sense to review base at the same level . |
| 4 | ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’ |
| 5 | Graphic Communication is a new subject in Scottish schools and it replaces Technical Drawing . |
| 6 | However , ‘ Motherese ’ is composed of many different characteristics and it seems reasonable to suppose that there is considerable variation among adults in respect of how far these features are reflected in their speech to young children . |
| 7 | I understand the various accou er professional bodies in the accountancy industry are in fact doing that but I think the government should also do that because it is not just the probity of financial institutions we are concerned about , it is also er the auditing of other commercial concerns and it seems to be that in this case the public interest has taken second place to the government 's wish to do as little as possible , yet again the minister said in the debate that if we were to do anything further in response to a question put by my honourable friend the member for Grimsby , it would need legislation , primary legislation . |
| 8 | And the accumulation of capital has been internationalized by the internationalization of production : it has generated flows of direct investment as multinationals expand their enterprises in different countries and it has also indirectly generated flows of portfolio investment as the multinationals ' cash and financing needs have been channelled through the financial markets of the City , New York and Tokyo . |
| 9 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 10 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 11 | The need to communicate is a key characteristic of human society ; it serves basic social functions and it signals the ability to store information and to learn from it . |
| 12 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 13 | I run into the arms of Andy 's parents walking with the dogs near the ornamental ponds and it seems like an age before I can tell them what 's happened because my voice wo n't work and I can see the fear in their eyes and they 're asking , ‘ Where is Andrew ? |
| 14 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 15 | Well perhaps it 's the shape of the if they go in threes and the other three perhaps approach from a different stairs and it comes up , you know the type I mean ? |
| 16 | that 's all it was , like the old booklets and it used have week beginning Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , Friday all the way along and they used to write their homework in , what they had to do |
| 17 | So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them . |
| 18 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 19 | But certain individuals clearly played crucial roles and it meant names had to be mentioned . |
| 20 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 21 | Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit . |
| 22 | Barnardo 's helps families and children who have serious problems and it has a new service called ‘ Positive Options ’ which helps children , young people and families where someone has AIDS . |
| 23 | Where root crops are fed on the ground to cattle the rabbit has easy pickings and it remains interested and satisfied with the debris littering a field that once held a root crop . |
| 24 | Now I remember you quite strongly disagreed with the notion that in fact if you do n't know behaviour itself from w our own experiences , we behave differently in different situa in very similar situations and it 's based on our interpretation of the stimulus . |
| 25 | In some cases relatively modern fields can be seen to reflect these early arrangements and it seems , in areas of old ( or continuously ) enclosed land , that much of the basic framework of the landscape may be prehistoric . |
| 26 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 27 | There were individual factory loyalties and there were divisional loyalties and it had been a pretty cosy relationship between the organisation and the Ministry of Defence . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's why there were a couple of early hiccups and it took a while to settle in . |
| 29 | Reference to chimpanzees and apes has been made here and there throughout the preceding chapters and it seems appropriate to relate just one example of their mental processes in these pages . |
| 30 | This second expedition to Benghazi is not mentioned in any official documents and it has all the hallmarks of a David Stirling private-enterprise job , especially in view of the personnel who were to be involved . |