Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our role is to propose a prudent council tax and that is what we 've done and at the end of the day I agree , the figures are juggled one way or another but it does show a net saving of one point three million and however you look at it Mr Mayor I 'm sure the leader of the council , if he adopted these proposals , could then find somewhere a sum for a stress control officer . |
| 2 | This , however , can not be correct since section 36A , inserted by the 1989 Act , provides that a company need not have a common seal and that whether it has or not ‘ a document signed by a director and the secretary of the company or by two directors and expressed ( in whatever form of words ) to be executed by the company has the same effect as if executed under the common seal of the company . ’ |
| 3 | Oh well , I do n't know then , but I know she used to live in Spotter 's Wood cos erm they showed that , you see , she showed her this thing , a dog license and that and it said like , the dog and it had the dog 's history on it . |
| 4 | Calgary , took a train over the Rockies to Vancouver and then a cruise ship up to Alaska and , and back via Vancouver and you saw the erm ice floes er dropping off and er er seals and that , dolphins and that and it looked pretty good . |
| 5 | The manager can say this and that and it looks good on paper and there may be great reasoning behind it . |
| 6 | Its head twisted this way and that as it tried to reach my fingers with its chopping teeth . |
| 7 | For some reason , a pulse is given as the wire enters and another as it leaves ! |
| 8 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 9 | Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief . |
| 10 | She treasured it , feeling that Paris , and all that it meant , was perhaps not quite over … |
| 11 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 12 | She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital . |
| 13 | One planning officer commented that ‘ probably no planning circular and all that it implies has ever been so popular with the public . |
| 14 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 15 | Milner in 1907 was writing : ‘ there can be no adequate prosperity for the forty or fifty million people in these islands without the Empire and all that it provides ’ . |
| 16 | But acting and all that it means is very much a doing thing , so the emphasis is always on practical work . |
| 17 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 18 | And all that it contains |
| 19 | I am still 100 per cent behind Credit Management and all that it stands for . |
| 20 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 21 | When it was certain that the City of the Horizon would collapse , and all that it stood for , I wrote to him , to try to get him to save himself . |
| 22 | About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did . |
| 23 | ‘ The most disturbing feature of the underground repository is not simply that an accident might occur , ’ he said at the time , ‘ but that if it did , we might never know until its consequences reached the surface — maybe decades later . ’ |
| 24 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 25 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 26 | The other , instinctively realizing the danger , swiftly retreats in a reflex movement of social and theological withdrawal , but all that it does from then on is marked by a deepening social and intellectual insecurity . |
| 27 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |