Example sentences of "[vb -s] an [adj] [noun] to it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This remark has an enticing obscurity to it , a flavour of ‘ Confucius , he says … ’ ; actually , as with many Chinese proverbs , the point Tarrow is making is a straightforward and simple one , that regionalism as policy resists categorisation and control within a particular administrative subject-area and has tended to develop branch-lines covering a wide range of policy intervention . |
| 2 | This scale has an Eastern flavour to it caused by the fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth degrees . |
| 3 | Nor will it invalidate his right to say , Every body else has an equal Title to it ; and therefore he can not appropriate , he can not inclose , without the Consent of all his Fellow-Commoners , all Mankind . |
| 4 | HE talks of jobs , of companies committing millions of dollars to the rebuilding scheme — which is has an impressive ring to it . |
| 5 | The idea is that he 's using them as , as a way of communicating the idea of the forest being er landscaped ; the whole environment of being polluted and it has an ecological background to it . |
| 6 | Ethology 's assertion that male aggression has an instinctive basis to it has a close parallel with those radical feminists such as Dworkin who argue that males are inherently and innately violent . |
| 7 | THE early morning jingle has an exciting sound to it . |
| 8 | Which adds an interesting edge to it , I suppose . |