Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] it [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traveller who rides on a local bus can learn a lot : in the mountains of Greece everyone clings on for dear life and makes the sign of the cross at every bend in the road ; in the Thar Desert , Rajasthan , a sense of humour is essential , especially when the giggling driver moves the sheltering bus to reveal squatting passengers answering the call of nature , and in South America it helps if you do n't mind sitting next to a chicken or sharing the floor with a goat . |
| 2 | While the amount of runoff increases in the establishment phase it declines as the plantation matures . |
| 3 | Having had a jinxed left back position it looks like we now have a jinxed central defender position ! |
| 4 | Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? |
| 5 | At the leave stage the court decides whether the application should proceed , and at the hearing stage it decides whether it should succeed . |
| 6 | ICL Plc has pushed back the timeframe for its stock market flotation , saying that it will most likely be towards the back end of the two to five year target it set when Fujitsu Ltd took its 80% stake . |
| 7 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |