Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it " in BNC.

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1 In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise .
2 Despite the conflicting accounts it is clear that Richard had the upper hand and that William des Barres lost his valuable war-horse .
3 With the right accessories it can also be used for metal filing , wood and plastic rasping , and for brushing !
4 Notwithstanding the Working Party 's efforts to clarify and simplify the problem of providing protection against fire in high-bay warehouses it must be made clear that the subject is one where there is a significant difference of opinion amongst experts as to the most effective method .
5 By examining the details visible on surviving coins it is possible to identify coins struck from the same die or dies , for they will show no divergence whatsoever in the details of the designs ( fig. 6 ) .
6 The high cost of housing in the north London area was proving a barrier to the recruitment of people with the rare technical skills it required .
7 Building on solid foundations it is extremely encouraging to report that last year we saw a dramatic increase in the numbers of candidate entries .
8 In seeking to account for the shortcomings which have previously been identified in respect of our conventional political institutions it may be helpful to make use of a typology developed in a slightly different though related context by Kamenka and Tay ( Kamenka and Tay , 1975 ; Kamenka and Tay , 1980 ) .
9 She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy .
10 Sole calls it a day
11 With these modified rules it is easy to adapt the procedure of this section for use in the PFRS format ( Exercise 3 ) .
12 In strong syllables it is comparatively easy to distinguish from , from , but in weak syllables the difference is not so clear .
13 All guitars , from the cheapest acoustics to the top-of-the-range electrics are buzz-checked in soundproofed rooms ; their playing actions are measured and if any guitar falls below the proscribed tolerences it is sent off to be readjusted , perhaps even fret-dressed , before rechecking , packing and shipping .
14 It should now be apparent that for any rights theory to be capable of satisfactorily addressing the broader problems which now confront our traditional representative institutions it will need to transcend the essentially liberal principles which lie at the heart of Dworkin 's thesis .
15 This is where a sales idea could come in , but for the right reasons it could be good , but also , for the bad reasons , it could be totally wrong .
16 For technical reasons it was not always possible to obtain good results for the three probes on tissue from the same patient .
17 After eleven minutes it looked as though the changes would work , when John headed into the net from a centre by Hulme .
18 one hour and eleven minutes it said on there
19 for anatomical reasons it proved impossible to cannulate the portal vein in four patients , two were referred for surgical intervention , and one patient has required further admission for transfusion because of bleeding from portal gastropathy .
20 Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 .
21 The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader .
22 Courses in Accountancy and European and Human Rights Law are being set up and it is hoped that as many pupils as possible will attend them , but for economic reasons it has been decided not to make them compulsory this year .
23 ‘ We lose so many girls to the professional ranks it means we are constantly having to start again as regards team selection , ’ continued Mrs. Boatman .
24 For administrative reasons it would be undesirable for base rates to change every time money market rates changed , but if the change is large enough , then a base rate change becomes necessary .
25 From Seelisberg there is a longer walk which is particularly rewarding in the sustained panoramic views it offers .
26 In general for specific cases it seems better to replace the word " sensible " with stated limits ( Example 100 ) .
27 In the final eight minutes it all came right again .
28 To understand the expression of political attitudes it is necessary to place them in their argumentative context .
29 Using a tachistoscope and testing normal subjects it has been repeatedly shown that letters and words presented in the right visual field are more easily identified than the same stimuli presented in the left visual field .
30 Using a tachistoscope and testing normal subjects it has been repeatedly shown that letters and words presented in the right visual field are more easily identified than the same stimuli presented in the left visual field .
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