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 . |