Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this writer it began when , shortly after stepping off the plane in Johannesburg , it became apparent that a few stitches sustained by the All Black winger Terry Wright in a training accident was deemed as worthy a front page news story as the continuous blood-letting in the Natal townships between rival ANC and Inkatha factions . |
| 2 | When attention was given to individual children it became clear that a far more effective way of viewing the disabled was not in terms of handicap but in terms of personal need . |
| 3 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 4 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 5 | In the ensuing discussion , it became evident that a principal feature of cross-cultural experience is stress . |
| 6 | As it became evident that a full-scale civil war was in progress in Spain , foreign observers hastened to impose an imaginary order upon a confused reality by attaching neat labels to the two sides . |
| 7 | The house had seemed less threatening in the cold light of day , and it became obvious that a pretty establishment had been rendered hideous by neglect . |
| 8 | ‘ It sold two and a half thousand copies very quickly and Lime had to get more pressed . |
| 9 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 10 | It cost one and a half million pounds — but the hospital says it 's money well spent . |
| 11 | It seemed inconceivable that a mere punt trip could end in death . |
| 12 | It seemed odd that a military organisation could have the power to change your entire identity . |
| 13 | It seemed likely that a second ‘ hundred flowers ’ movement was in the offing , thirty years after the original one had ended in disaster for thousands of Chinese intellectuals . |
| 14 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 15 | Because it costs two and a half times as much to collect as the money that is received . |
| 16 | It costs more than a normal prescription , two or three times as much , one charge for each hormone they contain , yet means the difference between health or serious illness and peace of mind for you and your partner . |
| 17 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 18 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
| 19 | It achieved more than a four per cent swing in the West Midlands and won seven of its nine target seats , with only Coventry South West and Dudley West failing to fall . |
| 20 | It takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 21 | IT TAKES more than a sending-off to halt the Portadown juggernaut these days . |
| 22 | It takes more than a few days but it goes again , just about . |
| 23 | ‘ It takes more than a few bruises , and a few kicks , to make people like us talk , eh ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It takes more than a poisonous soda to subdue me . ’ |
| 25 | It seems extraordinary that a British Prime Minister can represent such a betrayal of the interests of millions of people in Britain as a victory for British interests . |
| 26 | To me it seems inconceivable that a single human life on earth is the beginning and end of it all . |
| 27 | In fact , it seems inescapable that a special status must be allowed to the most basic layer of clause construction in any clause , joining the subject and the predicate , to use traditional terms , whether by assignment of qualification or assignment of equation . |
| 28 | On this evidence it seems possible that a large part of the conflict that arose in the administration of the NIRC was the result of a belief of its president that , in industrial conflicts , one side can be discovered , after proper examination by judges , to be ‘ right ’ and the other side ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems unfair that a few farmers should have to carry the cost of the consequences of what is after all a national policy . |
| 30 | It seems unlikely that a tortious duty of care or fiduciary duty would ever be applied for the benefit of non-members , since this would hinder the exchange 's performance of its overriding duty of fairness . |