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

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1 LORD Ted Willis has introduced an extraordinary bill into the House of Lords which would effectively make it illegal for British shops to sell any audio or video tape recorder .
2 Harrington at once leapt into a slit trench in great haste , only to find it full of barbed wire which inflicted severe lacerations on him .
3 So very often it 's better to hold the wardrobe vertical and the man at the bottom end if you like holds it vertical and you go down holding it flat like that .
4 This project examines whether the differences in external conditions ( and in the characteristics of countries themselves ) alter their costs and benefits sufficiently to make it inappropriate for new NICs .
5 As a general rule if the sick person requires a remedy and you only have it available in one potency then that is the correct potency no matter what it is !
6 The reeve , attendant at Hugh 's elbow , eyed him sidelong , and said insinuatingly : ‘ You 'll not think it ill of good husbandmen to take what God sends and be grateful for it ? ’
7 It 'll only attract people who 'll do little to help the economic life of the city and just make it horrendous for those who live here .
8 The present rules do not make it worthwhile for most wives to continue working once their husbands join the ranks of the long-term unemployed .
9 However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point .
10 They said , ‘ Oh , we just push it all to one side . ’
11 Dad 's first name was George , and he had already made it clear on several occasions that when Granpa retired he had no intention of taking over from him as he did n't want to leave his mates on the docks .
12 Even within the non-union camp , the British idea of a loose grouping of European states in close association with the United States faced opposition from those who argued for a ‘ third force , essentially a cooperative European security arrangement without American participation : General de Gaulle had already made it clear in 1946 that he favoured this path .
13 Well he was dashing out when I when I called him erm his wife answered the phone and she said you just him he 's going out at the door so he came rushing back and I said I wanted him to judge champion of champions and the and I said there 'll be two and he said , hang on , and he 's write it down said I 'll just stick it all at one and see to it when I come back , oh I got ta go and he went .
14 Every time he got to that corner it 'd be like that , all fucking giving it some of that .
15 Now let's keep the force the same , say we 've got a Mini engine providing us , just running it steady at three thousand R P M. Pushing out the same amount of force , keep the force the same , this time we put a smaller mass , we 've got a Mini engine and you 've put it on your pushbike .
16 Puzzle number two is that other changes in financial markets were meanwhile making it easier for such principles to apply .
17 I understand also that Scorton Tennis Club will be contacting you direct concerning financial aid towards tarmacing the present grass court and thus making it suitable for all weather use both by members of the club , visitors to the village and pupils of the village school .
18 ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land .
19 I think if labour gets in , you 'll not get it tough at all .
20 I 'm just putting it all in one place , yeah .
21 It was an order — a rare thing from Therese — and Flavia could not refuse it short of gross discourtesy in public to an older woman and a friend .
22 ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’
23 I did not find it light-hearted at all .
24 Their Lordships do not find it necessary for present purposes to examine the question what element of mens rea is required as an ingredient of the offences …
25 But the loss of military independence , industrial capacity , employment and markets that such a policy would involve has always made it unacceptable to Western European governments and electorates , including our own .
26 Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else .
27 Major Stewart also made it possible for many sports clubs to have their own ground so all sport is catered for .
28 The tax would not come into force until approved by member governments , however , and the Commission also made it conditional on other industrialized countries , notably the USA , agreeing to similar measures .
29 The USA also made it clear to Israeli officials that any Israeli military involvement in the crisis would cause a radical shift in the already unstable Arab ranks , possibly leading a number of those currently allied to the USA to side instead with Iraq .
30 Carbon is important and deserves to have its own private branch of chemistry , partly because life chemistry is all carbon-chemistry , and partly because those same properties that make carbon-chemistry suitable for life also make it suitable for industrial processes , such as those of the plastics industry .
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