Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Van Helmont envisaged the natural world as a system of seedlike entities , seminal spirits that penetrated matter giving it specific properties . |
| 2 | Instead they dismantled the Poor Law from outside , by removing from it needy groups by means of legislation on issues such as old-age pensions and national health insurance . |
| 3 | According to J.L. Missika and D. Wolton , politicians were suspicious of broadcasting and governments allotted it scanty credits ; at the same time , governments encouraged the cultural vocation of television , and information ministers ( including Mitterrand ) accepted arguments from engineers in favour of a high-definition standard of television that was technically satisfying but increased costs . |
| 4 | I 've got ta be catched I wo n't actually do it I 'll just come in run a mo just give it complete customers and and help |
| 5 | In 1983 , when a much smaller number of students completed IT Advanced Courses , 14 per cent were unemployed at the end of their courses ( 1 ) , a figure which halved in the following six months ( 2 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We call it bouncing stones across the water . ’ |
| 7 | Announced as the strongest environmental protection agency in Europe , Parliament gave it extensive powers . |
| 8 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 9 | Quite often the limitations of its '50s design brought with it annoying problems you would n't think of in a more modern-thinking car . |
| 10 | While many feminists will abhor Segal 's conclusions about violence and pornography , I found them extremely relevant at a time when the British anti-porn bandwagon is sweeping along with it Labour women MPs and anti-censorship feminists , in company with the powerful , pro-family , homophobic moral right . |
| 11 | For the little good it 's supposed to do it brings with it inherent problems . |
| 12 | Record reviewers criticise from the standpoint of their own knowledge and experience , which is at once a strength , but carries with it inherent weaknesses . |
| 13 | And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market . |
| 14 | It has time to dissolve minute quantities of minerals which can give it definite characteristics such as hardness or taste . |
| 15 | Telford gave it hollow spandrels to lighten the load on the foundations , which also gives a deceptive appearance of lightness to the structure ; and the roadway does not rise to the crown of the arch , which was usually done to ensure that rainwater would not lie on the road surface . |
| 16 | From this secure position , it extends a long tube , its siphon , along the tunnel and into the open water to suck in a current that brings with it minute particles of food . |
| 17 | If a suntan is top of that list give it top marks — after all , this is where the Spanish sun comes for its holiday . |
| 18 | We also gave it top marks for looks . |
| 19 | And as a result has awarded it top marks and a prestigious regional Quality Brickwork Award . |
| 20 | None of them had been the kind of people who could have imagined devotion to a pet animal or according to it funerary rites . |
| 21 | He was cutting it proper shapes you know like they are today . |
| 22 | Anyone getting it wrong drops out of the game . |
| 23 | ‘ He got it wrong Wigs by Clarkson as if it mattered . |
| 24 | On the one hand are those adult educators who see in it exciting possibilities to extend the concept of adult learning , making it more relevant to the issues and problems facing ‘ disadvantaged ’ groups , helping them to participate more effectively in society , gaining more recognition and resources , removing gross inequalities and injustices . |
| 25 | Digitisation brings with it exciting possibilities for the archival scholar . |
| 26 | I 'll give you examples perhaps of none , none of these I must admit I , I do n't , I do n't think , they 're not my style I much more my page my training tend to have just two or three points on it rubber stamps on the side flipchart all this sort of stuff big question . |
| 27 | It was agreed that the paper should be redrafted and circulated , and that any published statements of policy should make it clear Conservatives ‘ did not believe additional resources alone to be the answer to law and order problems , but that the humanizing of our society had an important contribution to make ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 29 | As indicated , in various parts of the country experimental projects have developed a co-ordinator role , giving it different titles , key worker , case manager , care co-ordinator , nominated social worker . |
| 30 | And just as the growing dependence of European art music on written scores in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to a differential development of certain elements of musical language , so the replacement of popular song scores by recordings has increased the importance of performance , and with it different elements . |