Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The minister told a questioner later : ‘ To somehow suggest that this incident of 1,000MBq released into the atmosphere is somehow responsible for massive contamination of the food chain … it clearly is nonsense to suggest that or to compare it in any way with Chernobyl . ’
2 And then , I either leave it like that or turn it to one .
3 Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem .
4 Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods .
5 Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that .
6 And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt
7 He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form .
8 The Dane Valdemar Poulsen invented his ‘ Telegraphone ’ in 1898 and patented it in 1900 , but ( as with commercial electrical recording ) amplification was needed before it could become practicable .
9 Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public .
10 Erm , but if it 's I do n't know anything about the weather , so I could n't look at that and analyse it in any way .
11 Catch weights , so do n't matters what it was but that man who was weighing them he got no brains , if one was overweight and go down , the next one got ta be underweight and he 'd take that off that and put it on that , he was so quick , wh that 's what he , he was a good checker , they were good men then
12 And wrote it like that and published it like that .
13 He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose .
14 He wadded the money up tight and shoved it into one of the pouches on his Sam Browne belt .
15 Let's just say it seems a bit questionable and leave it at that . ’
16 Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that .
17 The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 .
18 Se the room thermostat at a temperature which you find comfortable and leave it on that setting , allowing the thermostat to control the temperature of the room .
19 Mervyn Wilson gives a good service to his cricket clients and it is hoped that he was able to put his money where his mouth is and lay this price to all that wanted it to reasonable limits .
20 Since OCLC already have records from Missouri and New York Botanic Garden Libraries , I realised that a large proportion of our records would therefore already be in the OCLC system , and buying-in existing data is much cheaper than creating it as new records .
21 When you 're a child they say , ‘ You know you should n't do that ’ , and they give you a bloody good rollicking and leave it at that — they try to terrify you .
22 Böhme , a 45-year-old historian , joined the former SED at the age of 17 but left it in 1976 in protest at the persecution of intellectuals .
23 Further analysis showed no differences in results between schools in which the projects were taught for only the minimum time compared with those that taught it for longer .
24 But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that .
25 Trace the shape in figure 1 and transfer it to thin cardboard .
26 We will look at the simple case first and follow it with these more recent arguments .
27 Read it first and keep it in this file ready to refresh your memory at the last moment ;
28 So at this juncture you should be making a copy of bar one and calling it bar three .
29 Do n't try and do any sums on it and think ooh I 'll square one and add it on half the other .
30 An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds .
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