Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light — but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation . |
| 2 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 3 | Forty years later it rings true . |
| 4 | On some days when it looks good and I let it dry naturally it goes curly . |
| 5 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 6 | On this evidence therefore it seems possible that , on the evening of 14 May , AFHQ was working on the assumption that Loehr 's forces , including hundreds of thousands of Germans , had already surrendered to 5 Corps or were about to do so , and therefore that the German element in those forces might be included in the " 500,000 " Germans whom AFHQ was asking SHAEF/12th Army Group to take over . |
| 7 | This is another area where it appears difficult to reconcile demographic and housing trends . |
| 8 | Although this regulation of tortious liability is not of itself a contractual issue , there are some situations where it has great importance for business contracts , for instance in the area of pre-contract negotiations . |
| 9 | Airtours is expected to reflect an improved climate for the holiday business this year when it publishes first half figures on June 28 . |
| 10 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 11 | Its members organized aid for the Republican government while its leaders felt unable to do so until the following year when it became clear that neither Germany nor Italy had the slightest intention of discouraging aid to Franco . |
| 12 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 13 | Secondly , the Director of Social Services has got the authority to waive any of these charges where it causes financial hardship and the whole mechanism has been put in place to inform people that this waiving waiver process is in place and to allow them to apply for waiving of those charges . |
| 14 | For if there really is only one version of good primary practice then it becomes obvious that everyone should subscribe to it . |
| 15 | Broomfield and Alexander , a seven partner firm based in south Wales , had been the club 's auditors for many years when it hit financial difficulties . |
| 16 | His ceilings are a generous 8 feet high ( not 7 feet ) ; the walls are almost three times the normal thickness ( not 6 but 16 inches , if made of stone ) , and the building , far from being sunk in the ground , is raised 15–18 inches above it to avoid damp . |
| 17 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 18 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
| 19 | They then run it into pits , break it up , and use it for road stone or alternatively , the molten slag is run over water-cooled rollers where it forms little tiny pellets with a high air content which are used for making insulation blocks . |
| 20 | If it is necessary to draw a clear distinction between social problems and sociological questions then it follows that sociology must maintain a critical distance from the ideas — whether dominant or otherwise — of any particular society at any particular time . |
| 21 | The process went so far in Algeria earlier this year that the army cancelled the results of general elections when it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front would win an overwhelming victory . |
| 22 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |
| 23 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 24 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 25 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |
| 26 | It is very important in this environment that somebody administers each system otherwise it becomes cluttered or unvetted ( and for example , objectionable ) messages may be sent to others . |
| 27 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 28 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 29 | , they , remember last , end of last winter when it got mild after the cold spell , they were building their nests and then we got all that cold weather again , all the , all the fledglings were dead . |
| 30 | Significantly , the camera does not require costly special cooling yet it achieves thermal resolutions comparable with current , cooled images . |