Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | scale is not linear and it puts enormous weight on being alive and not much on whether you are active or working . |
| 5 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 8 | It is not clear whether it makes any difference if those words are omitted . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 11 | It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway . |
| 12 | Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers . |
| 13 | Our Susan and Vera saga in Bewley 's is not that far-fetched and it replaces negative comment in many cases . |
| 14 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 15 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ My gown will be lucky if it gets any attention at all ; you forget some of the top designers are taking part . ’ |
| 18 | My tape recorder used to load practically every game I bought , but now I 'm lucky if it loads one game a week ! |
| 19 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 20 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 21 | Where there is more rain and cloud the beet grows larger but it has less sugar content . |
| 22 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 23 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At the other extreme , ‘ I dislike it ’ turns out to be highly questionable when it implies diminished awareness : |
| 26 | Of course the type of soil in the area plays an important part in good gooseberry growing , and the good heavy loam of Egton Bridge is ideal as it retains vital moisture . |
| 27 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 28 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 29 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 30 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |