Example sentences of "a [noun] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 If expenditure is contained within a budget it implies that it has been approved by top management and no further approval is required .
2 He pushed at the gate and after a struggle it creaked and groaned open on its one rusty hinge .
3 SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear .
4 For a second it seemed that he would be unable to respond , but then he found his voice .
5 For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his .
6 Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in .
7 For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath .
8 Since the term m t is a logarithm it follows that is a measure of the proportionate rate of growth of the quantity of money .
9 Digital Equipment Corp reports that the state of Kentucky has awarded it a $10m contract to manage and provide technical and other support for state-wide educational reform ; the pact will enable DEC to start implementing a plan it developed as project consultant with the state education department — it plans to create the infrastructure for a state-wide information highway providing equitable access to technology and information throughout eight regional centres , 176 school districts and 1,400 schools across Kentucky ; the state 's public schools were declared unconstitutional in 1989 , primarily because of funding inequities between rich and poor school districts , and the new system is part of a wider plan to overhaul state schools ; it will be a model for other states in the use of technology in education reform .
10 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 ?
11 For a moment it looked as though the desperate urgency of the international situation might enable peace activists to shift the dead weight of the party system .
12 For a moment it looked as though she was going to break down .
13 Rodrigo , hearing of this , rushed to Alfonso 's aid and for a moment it seemed that the Emperor would relent and rescind El Cid 's banishment .
14 For a moment it seemed that he would protest , but then he got up .
15 She did not turn her head when Melissa entered and for a moment it seemed that she was unaware of her presence .
16 For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest .
17 For a moment it seemed as though everyone but d'Arquebus would career back down fifty metres to the base of the tube .
18 In the faintest of whispers the parents try to give comfort , try to quieten : for a moment it seems that they might even have to stifle .
19 When I consulted a textbook it seemed that these were nuchal organs , important in food detection .
20 However , when there was a conflict it appears that both interpretations were considered , and that it took a considerable amount of time to resolve the conflict .
21 For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender .
22 Friendly representations on Dryden 's behalf got the ban lifted ( Cleomenes opened on 16 April ) , but with an ugly gap threatened in the theatrical diary , for a while it looked as though The Fairy Queen would have to be brought forward .
23 For a while it looked as though Caledonian Mining , the Nottinghamshire-based firm which the consortium beat for the pit , would be involved .
24 Before the last Test at the Oval , Gower exhorted his troops to ‘ one last , big effort ’ to avoid completely ignominy , and for a while it seemed that they might .
25 For a while it seemed that she might be right .
26 For a while it seemed that the whole black music scene had a fixation about penning songs with titles formed entirely around the same noun , Sam Cooke adding to his bank balance via ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ( 1963 ) while James Brown band singer Anna King and Bobby Byrd provides a classic of the same title during '64 .
27 Although the primary aims of this particular study are to simply explore the concept of risk in driving and the nature of memory for driving generally , the principle aim of the thesis as a whole it to decide whether memory for driving situations is related subjective risk at the time .
28 However , in the context of the fragile family economy of the very poor in the years before World War I , it should be remembered that if a wife earned only 1/6d a week it meant that she could feed her family for two days .
29 In 1928 he returned to the ‘ Stones of London ’ , emphasizing that even when approaching a church building ( here Westminster Abbey ) as a historical monument of major symbolic value and aesthetic interest , the fact could not be ignored that , poets ' corner or no , ‘ the Abbey was not originally designed primarily as a Pantheon , but as a Church ; and a Church it remains until it is ‘ disaffected ’ .
30 For a time it seemed that Moran might choose to remain seated and force McQuaid to make his own way out of the house .
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