Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Ford , however , has made it clear that it wants ultimate majority control of Jaguar — something which the company 's board , led by chairman Sir John Egan , is resisting fiercely .
2 These relations between finite coordinate distances are generally so inconvenient that it makes more sense to start calculations from the differentials which do transform linearly : .
3 Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’
4 The coat colour can be all white , blue , blue roan or pied and it owes this variety to the Shorthorn ; the ‘ blue ’ is the equivalent of the Shorthorn 's roan .
5 and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you
6 scale is not linear and it puts enormous weight on being alive and not much on whether you are active or working .
7 Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date .
8 The UNESCO Report could be a first step towards this but it needs international organizations like UNESCO and IFLA to take the action they have not so far done .
9 This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) .
10 The noticeable familial disruption occurring in other cases is particularly interesting because it reflects social role expectations of women , where the primary role traditionally is that of homemaker , family manager , and housewife ( Oakley , 1981 ) .
11 IBM says the Workstation One family obviates the need for this because it combines many features in one product with a common graphical interface .
12 Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears .
13 A simple unipolar drive circuit — so-called because it produces unidirectional currents suitable for use with a variable -reluctance type motor is discussed in Section 2.2 .
14 Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol .
15 It is not clear whether it makes any difference if those words are omitted .
16 In a sense this is an extreme form of heterogeneous accretion of volatiles , though the separation of planetary accretion from the veneering by volatiles is so complete that it merits separate consideration .
17 It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself .
18 It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway .
19 Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers .
20 Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ?
21 Our Susan and Vera saga in Bewley 's is not that far-fetched and it replaces negative comment in many cases .
22 It could well be that it was the very fact of the fading of life enjoyment which is experienced with the responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood — and this could have affected the very primitive man just as much as it does modern man — which precipitated the very first of man 's attempts to take control of his future and the progress of evolution , by becoming ‘ civilised ’ .
23 Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists .
24 The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London .
25 It 's , tonight it 's , think of these as a sort of temperature numbers that , try , try these , it starts at plus three tonight and then it drops five degrees , plus three and it drops five degrees , what does it come to ?
26 ‘ My gown will be lucky if it gets any attention at all ; you forget some of the top designers are taking part . ’
27 My tape recorder used to load practically every game I bought , but now I 'm lucky if it loads one game a week !
28 Where there is more rain and cloud the beet grows larger but it has less sugar content .
29 A. griegi differs from all three because it has 2 tentacle scales on each pore , by the shape of the oral papillae and the shape of the arm spines .
30 At the other extreme , ‘ I dislike it ’ turns out to be highly questionable when it implies diminished awareness :
  Next page