Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
2 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
3 | Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous . |
4 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
5 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |