Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Learning it is easier if it has some reason behind it ; but such reasons are theoretically based , and will therefore date . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 4 | It is not clear whether it makes any difference if those words are omitted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ My gown will be lucky if it gets any attention at all ; you forget some of the top designers are taking part . ’ |
| 9 | My tape recorder used to load practically every game I bought , but now I 'm lucky if it loads one game a week ! |
| 10 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 11 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the other extreme , ‘ I dislike it ’ turns out to be highly questionable when it implies diminished awareness : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 16 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was the case in the Weimar Republic , where the parliament , although endowed with strong formal powers , was vulnerable because it lacked public support . |
| 19 | Do not use if deep sepsis is present because it promotes rapid healing which will seal the sepsis ( infection ) in . |
| 20 | Between four and six episodes was Verity Lambert 's ideal length for a story , preferring the latter as it gave more opportunity for character development which , in her belief , audiences appreciated . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The question is important because it gives some clue as to the likely rise in the long-run house price to income ratio ( because demand for housing has shifted upwards , while supply remains relatively constant ) . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 24 | ( The timber roofing is not merely picturesque but intensely practical as it prevents heavy winter snowfalls from rendering passage over the bridge either impossible or very hazardous . ) |
| 25 | Sometimes it is called the laminar sub-layer , but that is less accurate as it contains large velocity fluctuations ; and are free to rise more rapidly from the wall than . |
| 26 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 27 | If one had reason to contribute only a little to the scheme this might show that the scheme is unjustifiable since it requires greater sacrifice than can be justified . |
| 28 | Now that allowance would be nice if it bore some relationship to what was allowed in the estimated er , figures . |
| 29 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 30 | The German Air Ministry building in the Leipzigstrasse , for example , which had been a target since September 1940 , remained unscathed until it suffered slight damage in a US daylight raid in 1944 ! |