Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] [adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have perhaps conceded too much to ‘ pension find socialism ’ : although workers ' savings are very important it remains true that income ( and hence saving ) is highly unequally distributed . |
| 2 | Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap . |
| 3 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 4 | But because the repercussions are so enormous it becomes a political and social issue as well . ' |
| 5 | Moreover , unless Hugh is wildly inaccurate it seems to have gone beyond the simple quarrel between abbot and flock described by the Ramsey source . |
| 6 | And the flame propagation is so rapid it 's consumed that it just blows . |
| 7 | ‘ When a judge is unduly lenient it shakes the public 's faith in the legal system . ’ |
| 8 | The sun was so low it looked through the dirty window at her , touching the reeds with golden fingers so that they were bright yellow . |
| 9 | The report says the management was so weak it failed to control the savagery and racism . |
| 10 | Her laugh was so loud it attracted glances from people in the room . |
| 11 | Their late-night shouting match was so noisy it kept staff awake . |
| 12 | Alison 's denial was so forceful it attracted the attention of a couple at a neighbouring table . |
| 13 | The la funny enough they had Gasgcoigne and the picture was so poor it looked people put things like oh you know er Edna Everage things like that and he ju , he looked like |
| 14 | As the UK is predominantly urban it follows that our dominant ideology must be urban . |
| 15 | Tait 's smile was so faint it needed a microscope to detect . |
| 16 | The grass is so dry it seems impossible that it can ever come to life again : yet the huge acacia trees along the riverbed are putting out blossom , delicate sprigs of green in anticipation of the rains to come . |
| 17 | The scenery was so vast it seemed they were n't moving at all . |
| 18 | When my rheumatoid arthritis was very bad it has been very bad and very chronic , and it still can be some days , erm I had more ways of getting up and down those stairs and I got up and down , but I had to invent ways to do it . |
| 19 | ( Ferdinando said he expected the profit on Mr Landor 's rooms was so enormous it covered the cost of the rest more than double . ) |
| 20 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 21 | Her finger tips turned white as bone , her lips became chapped , and the air was so cold it hurt to breathe . |
| 22 | The defensive aspects of the church of Luz are more interesting it has to be said , than the ecclesiastical , because inside the church is a disappointment , small and scrappy . |
| 23 | Although Handy 's model is essentially abstract it does assume significance when schools are placed in the context of local management of schools and the National curriculum . |
| 24 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 25 | Her scream rang back to her in a thundering descant whose bass-line was so deep it vibrated each organ of her body and she was sick . |
| 26 | The menu was 600 francs , and while the food was very simple it reminded me of what Provençal restaurants used to be like in the days before even the most ordinary of Provençal dishes became a " speciality " listed on the menu as a supplement at 750 francs . |
| 27 | Mr Carson took me to Astor House for luncheon and it was all quite elegant , but the food was so rich it has left me thirsty . ’ |
| 28 | The milk 's so cold it makes my teeth ache . |
| 29 | Peter Grimes is so famous it runs the risk of being taken for some sort of operatic norm . |
| 30 | At the moment protein A is so scarce it costs between £5 and £10 a milligram . |