Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The real problem is once again the Government is trying to rush through a complex pattern of assessment without the resources or time to give it the proper foundations . |
| 2 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 3 | There was one moment of which I was particularly proud , and Richard made it a magic one . |
| 4 | Gurder and Angalo gave it a critical look . |
| 5 | On the one hand its ultra-patriotism and Ger-manophobia made it an important driving force behind the campaign for no compromise and total victory ; but against this was the undoubted fact that the most dynamic political leadership and organizing ability to ensure this outcome was provided by Lloyd George , the radical right 's bête noire . |
| 6 | Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The opera , like Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess the following year , used an all-Black cast and the staging and choreography gave it a British connection since it was by Frederick Ashton . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , the price of a rural railway line should be less than the private marginal cost if society judges it a good thing to protect the living standards of people in remote areas or to foster a sense of national cohesion . |
| 9 | Dramatic foliage and flowers make it a worthwhile challenge for the adventurous . |
| 10 | The church 's provinces , dioceses and parishes gave it an extensive infrastructure , its carefully-ranked personnel and tiers of assemblies a hierarchy of control into which the king could tap . |
| 11 | Celtic pressed forward — and Collins made it a memorable night for them when he shot the third goal eleven minutes from time . |
| 12 | Yet some people seem to learn to live with imperfection and others find it an impenetrable barrier . |
| 13 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 14 | Sandy and Dave had it the same . |
| 15 | But critics call it a faceless environment … a paradise for cars not people . |
| 16 | But Copernicus dealt it a crippling blow when he discovered that the sun , and not the earth , was the centre of our insignificant system . |
| 17 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 18 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 19 | David did not in fact begin to relax his reserve until nearly a week after the telegram had arrived , when Julia judged it a suitable moment to say that she and Anthony would be making other plans for Easter . |
| 20 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |