Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mention this because it brought me into favoured touch with the Commanding Officer for Wales , and through him I was able to gain admittance for Richard to Exeter College , Oxford , for six months prior to his joining the Royal Air Force , a privilege granted to very few cadets . |
| 2 | It was dangerous because it left her at his mercy and as far as she knew he had none . |
| 3 | Miss Rantzen , 52 , won the damages from The People newspaper in December 1991 after it accused her of keeping quiet about an alleged sex pervert . |
| 4 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 5 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 6 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 7 | This is the Achilles ' heel of Abelard 's theory , because Christ 's death is only explicable if it saves us from a serious and dreadful predicament which is of eternal significance . |
| 8 | Obvious because it stares you in the face as you walk in to the corrie , and also because you can see that the icicle has n't quite formed despite rumours that it does . |
| 9 | I call that a restricted international perspective because it does not explain or attempt to explain how production is organized internationally and , to my mind , a theory can not do that unless it says something about the changes in the organization of labour that go along with innovations in machinery , transport , instruments and products . |
| 10 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 11 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |
| 12 | ‘ I could live an ascetic life , lad , as long as it included plenty of whisky and tobacco . ’ |
| 13 | Strange because it reminded him of other bedroom partings : sheets tangled , sweat cooling , confusion and self-reproach keeping glances at bay . |
| 14 | Or sorry because it embarrasses you to be with me because of it ? ’ |
| 15 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 16 | It is that permanent element in human nature which causes the soul to be restless until it realizes itself to be at one with Truth or God . |
| 17 | It is also shocking because it confronts us with her body , an old woman 's body with cancer , only touched when it is being cut or hit . |
| 18 | The dualism is deemed disastrous because it prevents us from having a unified conception of the world built around the natural sciences , and because it leaves the relationship between the mental and the physical an insoluble mystery . |
| 19 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 20 | However , he gradually came to see that his fear of God was beneficial because it kept him from falling into sin . |
| 21 | This burst of energy was worthwhile as it took us to Waterston Ridge and a level stretch of track . |