Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | scale is not linear and it puts enormous weight on being alive and not much on whether you are active or working . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 9 | It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway . |
| 10 | Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers . |
| 11 | Our Susan and Vera saga in Bewley 's is not that far-fetched and it replaces negative comment in many cases . |
| 12 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon , and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists . |
| 15 | The market distrusts people businesses almost as much as it distrusts American companies with their main share listings in London . |
| 16 | The growth of the ‘ displacement ’ model would be understandable if it resolved individual difficulties or reduced the general incidence of difficulty . |
| 17 | The bid-ask spread was so large that it converted significant profits into significant losses . |
| 18 | It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish . |
| 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 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 22 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 23 | At the other extreme , ‘ I dislike it ’ turns out to be highly questionable when it implies diminished awareness : |
| 24 | COOK 'S NOTE : This vinaigrette is unusual as it has equal quantities of vinegar and oil . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Trapping data into files in this way can be extremely useful because it changes ephemeral data into a permanent list . |
| 28 | This was the case in the Weimar Republic , where the parliament , although endowed with strong formal powers , was vulnerable because it lacked public support . |
| 29 | Do not use if deep sepsis is present because it promotes rapid healing which will seal the sepsis ( infection ) in . |
| 30 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |