Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The non-smokers dislike the perpetual and pungent cloud , but have grown to accept it without serious complaint — it 's the least of their worries . |
| 2 | Indeed the business was said to have made ‘ the very best of progress ’ and its move to open systems is reckoned to stand it in good stead for the future . |
| 3 | It has leanings toward Gibson 's Melody Maker/Les Paul Special range , but so slight that you would be hard pushed to detect it without laser-optic assistance . |
| 4 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 5 | A Department of the Environment report on the condition of local authority housing in 1985 said that in England alone almost £19 billion needed to be spent to restore it to good condition . |
| 6 | The war in the Gulf was not fought to liberate Kuwait from a medieval fiefdom , it was fought to liberate it from Iraqi occupation . |
| 7 | Recently people have begun to contemplate it as possible fuel in muon catalysed fusion and it is from this that current interest derives . |
| 8 | Bald planned to follow it with other county surveys of similar quality , but this ambition was frustrated when the Ordnance Survey was directed to produced its own map of Ireland in 1824 , and henceforth he devoted his energies to civil engineering , a profession for which he further equipped himself by a period of renewed study and foreign travel . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the government published a report from its radioactive waste management advisory committee saying that BNFL had failed to supply it with sufficient information on its proposals to deal with waste arising from work carried out at THORP for foreign customers . |
| 10 | From one of these , situated within half a mile of the proposed Chirbury Station , it is stated that 10,000 tons are annually raised for local requirements , and that easy and cheap means of transit , such has the railway would supply , are only required to bring it into extensive use . |