Example sentences of "it a [noun sg] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deep depression with a centre varying between 968 and 978 millibars moved from the Faroes to the mouth of the Elbe , while behind it a ridge of high pressure built up strongly over the Atlantic . |
| 2 | Apart from the blow to one 's pride , the drastic loss of earning brings with it a sense of utter helplessness . |
| 3 | As this suggests , the appeal of such a tune could be seen as a ‘ leftover ’ , an ‘ echo ’ of a bygone era of craftsmanship ; and Adorno recognizes the possibility of this — indeed , he acknowledges that it is precisely in popular music that the category of the ‘ idea ’ ( a relatively independent , memorable element within a totality , a phenomenon more or less abandoned by ‘ serious ’ music ) lives on , and with it a sense of creative spontaneity ( Adorno 1976 : 34–7 ) . |
| 4 | Whilst for some the experience of ageing does bring with it a degree of social disengagement , it is far from being a ‘ natural ’ or inevitable event . |
| 5 | His procession left behind it a trail of communal violence and death . |
| 6 | With these , the total number of seats controlled by the new government was 67 , giving it a majority of seven seats . |
| 7 | Perhaps the best description of his composition has come from the New York Times ’ John Rockwell , who called it a mixture of mathematical clarity and mystical allure . |
| 8 | 'Mill Reserves made it a weekend of double celebration for Shottermill Football Club by clinching runners-up spot , thus ensuring promotion to division two . |
| 9 | But the second one was to actually make it a bit of bloody exercise in marketing . |
| 10 | And you think , Well hang on let's just do it a bit of common sense . |
| 11 | or was it a bit of opportunist entrepreneur ? |
| 12 | A bus passed them , bringing with it a flurry of dry dust from the gutter . |
| 13 | It was the party 's ideals of social justice which eventually brought it a measure of middle-class support . |
| 14 | Capital and energy costs together would come out at about $25 per barrel to give it a dose of 2.5 Mrad for 2–3 minutes , which would be highly competitive with incineration . |
| 15 | This will be the first museum of contemporary art in the former DDR and the director-designate , Klaus Werner intends to make it a showcase of international art . |
| 16 | Was it a case of demonic possession ? |
| 17 | To put it another way , is it a case of high pitch giving rise to sexist prejudice , or does the prejudice cause the reaction to the pitch ? |
| 18 | The critical approach to knowledge brings with it a state of intellectual freedom , in which the individual is freed from unquestioning faith in any view of the world . |
| 19 | It 's perhaps the only committee , if one dare call it a committee of this council , where the chief officer has n't troubled to come to the budget review and represent the interests of his committee . |
| 20 | It was an image that spread and took root everywhere , bringing with it a tradition of atrocious performances — sloppy , flat and prettifying — that lasted throughout his lifetime , for the entire 19th century and for too much of the 20th . |
| 21 | This gives it a total of six Nissan dealerships . |
| 22 | He predicted that his party would pick up a fourth seat in the Lower Falls and hold its three seats in Upper Falls — giving it a total of 10 seats on the council . |
| 23 | I think about it a couple of hundred times a day and kick myself for not staying right there . |
| 24 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 25 | Is it a kind of traditional thing ? |
| 26 | The stinging of the tree by an insect causes the tree to make for it a house of green light , a balloon of anti-matter , a jewel to adorn the nakedness of the bough . |
| 27 | Each episode brought with it a succession of new sets and new working constraints . |
| 28 | Silence , and with it a circle of bewildering calm , closed about them . |
| 29 | Sections comprise approximately twenty policemen and women , made up mostly of regular constables , but each has attached to it a number of full-time reservists . |
| 30 | Both in popular accounts and in much social science literature , the image of a peaceful society seems to carry with it a number of associated conceptions : co-operation , communalism , absence of self-interest , and so on . |