Example sentences of "and [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1982 and 1986 it changed from being described as an uncommon parasite to the most common parasite identified and over 11000 cases were reported between 1985 and 1988 . |
| 2 | Her tall , slender form was tightly swathed in a pink dress and she stepped warily across the uneven boards on white sandals with heels so high and narrow it seemed barely possible that they could support a human being . |
| 3 | And this it sought to achieve by minimising the number of people required to exercise control while maximising the number over whom it could be exercised . |
| 4 | the ‘ fiction theory ’ must remain unsatisfactory unless it can explain what are the real facts in terms of individual rights and duties which underlie the fiction , and this it seems unable to do . |
| 5 | Between 1783 and 1793 wheat had averaged 47s ( £2.35 ) a quarter ; between 1793 and 1801 it averaged 77s ( £3.85 ) and from 1803 to 1813 92s ( £4.60 ) . |
| 6 | Several hundred passengers lined the ship 's rails , staring into the fog and willing it to clear . |
| 7 | Between 1973 and 1985 it spent £25 million pounds on a process to remove about 95 per cent of the mercury from its runcorn effluents , which has an annual operating cost of £1.5 million . |
| 8 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 9 | One way and another it had been a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon . |
| 10 | With his leg and one thing and another it does make a difference having a ‘ phone … |
| 11 | She sounded tired but , though her breathing was laboured and painful it seemed to Creggan now that her voice was the only friendly thing left in his world . |
| 12 | One and six it cost on the ferry |
| 13 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 14 | Horrible and impossible it enfolded the two women in its slimy obsceneness . |
| 15 | Reporting between 1976 and 1979 it showed how the share of the before-tax distribution of wealth of the top ten per cent had fallen from nearly 30 per cent in 1959 to 26.6 per cent in 1974–5 . |
| 16 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
| 17 | Between 1934 and 1937 it invalidated a string of measures initiated by President Roosevelt and passed by Congress to attempt to deal with the economic depression , while between 1954 and 1963 it made a series of decisions regarding the rights of blacks far in advance of anything that could obtain strong presidential and congressional support . |
| 18 | whereas between 1981 and 1991 it increased by 25 per cent . |
| 19 | In chapters 6 and 7 it has been established that accurate reduction in the amplitude of alternating potential difference or current can be achieved using a transformer . |
| 20 | Rachaela remembered how Mr Gerard had fired her , and how relevant and ominous it had been . |
| 21 | Superbly illustrated in both colour and black and white it provides a guide about what to see , where to see it and what to do in living railway history . |
| 22 | By and large it does not , and it certainly did not in Margaret 's case : she merely laughed all the more , and sang the taunting hymns of her new faith , about how tyrants would be put down from their thrones and the humble and the meek raised up . |
| 23 | They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen . |
| 24 | By and large it performed well during the miners ' industrial action of 1973–4 and the concurrent ‘ go-slows ’ in the electricity-supply industry , as David Howell recalls : |
| 25 | Sometimes the 1949 recording is a trifle overwhelmed , but by and large it absorbs the heavy demands with reasonable fidelity . |
| 26 | This is the practice that has been followed for many years and by and large it has worked . |
| 27 | There is a lot of it hype , there is a lot of it window dressing , but by and large it has helped to provide a railway line , if you like , for them to work on and give special help and special aid to various industries that are relocating there . |
| 28 | A door opened and a light so bright and sudden it hurt their eyes spilled through from the back . |
| 29 | To all intents , a British plane flying home if anyone saw it and all it had to do to make the drop was fly in under eight hundred feet because many sections of the English coast have no low-level radar . ’ |
| 30 | In this view , teachers , like other people , are not just bundles of skill , competence and technique ; they are creators of meaning , interpreters of the world and all it asks of them . |