Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this maxim seems especially appropriate for the seed trade , in spite of it insatiable appetite for novelty . |
| 2 | She calls it corrective training . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly they may consequently pay it little attention and even discard it altogether . |
| 4 | Oh it were I play a bloody tune on it bloody snake charmer |
| 5 | It was only tiny but it bloody talk ! |
| 6 | That 's a about a in n it bloody hell ! |
| 7 | They begin to become mouthpieces for an outside force , be it divine will , the necessities of plot , or authorial comment . |
| 8 | Ah do n't like it wan bit … ’ |
| 9 | The is it eleven pound load I think it is ? |
| 10 | In this form , it then remains , and when the rains return , it instinctively remembers it watery home and there lays its eggs , for the cycle to be repeated . |
| 11 | Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall . |
| 12 | So the myth has it that Ms or Mr Trim very carefully calculates how much food ( or how many calories ) to forgo in order to afford an occasional large meal ( on holiday or at Christmas for example ) . |
| 13 | Several hypotheses have it that land-use change , primarily growth of forest or development of heathlands following fires , logging and abandonment of agriculture , could have caused the recent acidification of low-alkalinity surface waters . |
| 14 | Is it that Socratism and art are not incompatible after all ? |
| 15 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 16 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 17 | Is it that size ? |
| 18 | Theodora did not want to give it that chance . |
| 19 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 20 | Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ? |
| 21 | May we take it that protection is absolute within the period of six to 16 months , although it may not be absolute outwith that period ? |
| 22 | Marion had worried that , if he consumed it that afternoon , his performance would suffer that evening . |
| 23 | Nigel had never seen the film and , as it was shown rather late , we had recorded it and intended to watch it that afternoon . |
| 24 | Philip and she spent sixty pounds of it that afternoon on a secondhand gas boiler . |
| 25 | Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ? |
| 26 | What I 've done now is taken you through to the point where , we 're asking ourselves what is it that management make a mess of ? |
| 27 | Conventional wisdom has it that management can not focus its attentions on more than seven critical success factors serviced by up to forty critical business processes . |
| 28 | I mean the point would be to give it that kind of pzazz that the young kids love so much . |
| 29 | You see cos , we put it that position cos er , the only dead part of the club is just literally |
| 30 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |