Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Making sure that Ryan was already inside , they entered , sat near him , and began a general chat about land , A saying to B , in a casual roundabout fashion , that if he had any land going in Norfolk to unload it quickly because the councils were clamping down on building regulations and that land in future was to be used for agricultural purposes only . ’ |
| 32 | The vitriol , talent and critical edge of NME made it indisputably the thinking kid 's po paper , especially after its nearest rival Sounds nailed its colours to the laddishness mast in the shape of Oi ! and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal . |
| 33 | The difficulties of the student in arranging pupillage make it rather theoretical to give advice on the assumption that he can pick and choose . |
| 34 | The swift interactive response of the micro and its flexibility within a well-defined set of rules make it particularly effective in setting up game situations . |
| 35 | GATT rules make it hard to levy a tax on the estimated value of the virgin materials incorporated in an import . |
| 36 | By now the time had come for me to hand back to these women responsibility to go it alone . |
| 37 | I ca n't make the machine go any bloody quicker , well I can , but I so what 's the point in that come and have a look at it and then they said come back and do it when you on the skin , you know the skin bring it forward well it do n't go back , it just gets all tangled . |
| 38 | This clash between school values and home values made it very difficult for some schools to tackle problems of pupil absence . |
| 39 | Lord Mackay of Clashfern LC held , on a construction of section 63 without the aid of reference to the parliamentary material , that the tax-payers were only assessable on the extra cost of providing the in-house benefit , and in reaching this finding regarded it as crucial that , on the facts , as found , the teachers ' sons occupied only surplus places and their right to do so was entirely discretionary . |
| 40 | Whilst not all the nouveaux romanciers would embrace this perspective with the enthusiasm of the Tel Quel group ( whose combination of Marxism , psychoanalysis and radical semiotics made it particularly receptive to this positivistic role for avant-garde writing ) , Robbe-Grillet has always upheld the validity of this critical function . |
| 41 | CGI , which has 13.3% of Computer Horizons , and is regarded by the board as a hostile shareholder , argues that the company 's plans make it extremely difficult and expensive for another company to acquire Computer Horizons , and must be eliminated to make management accountable and maximise shareholder value . |
| 42 | Now , Dorothea felt justly punished , for she was merely sad , and Isabel would in any case consider it as inevitable good manners to have refused . |
| 43 | Seventy-nine per cent felt that Banking World was informative and 63% found it particularly interesting . |
| 44 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 45 | Do you realise that , when Lisa has it right |
| 46 | Since Plato ( dreamed that he ) saw Socrates most days , and this was among the most vivid and consistent of all his experiences ( dreams ? ) , and since Socrates said things which he , Plato , had not thought of before and which sometimes surprised him , Plato found it most consistent and convenient to ’ believe ’ that Socrates really did exist . |
| 47 | Once over the first fright of finding out that this was an unconventional arrangement , Alexandra found it less surprising that her mother should have married her father , than vice versa . |
| 48 | Once embarked upon the fabrication of an imaginary dinner party , Alexandra found it quite easy . |
| 49 | Gassendi accepts it too . |
| 50 | The judge Mr Justice described it as heavy and as it was handed to members of the jury he warned them not to drop it . |
| 51 | Huey drops it abruptly . |
| 52 | Researchers at Birmingham University say it sometimes takes years for an allergy to surface and it can be triggered by stress or overwork . |
| 53 | … and LoadLeveler to pull it together |
| 54 | The Pakistan skipper sailed down the pitch , the ball spat away past the edge , and Stewart grasped it wide , as he had against Viv Richards in ‘ 91 . |
| 55 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 56 | Kelly found it hilariously difficult to concentrate . |
| 57 | Even the snails found it too wet for comfort … climbing fifteen feet up house walls to escape . |
| 58 | Ubiquitous , hare-brained , tumbleweed skitters across the road , sticking underneath the car until friction dissolves it away to nothing . |
| 59 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 60 | Perhaps prehistoric visitors from distant planets erected it here — Space Odyssey style — purely for this purpose ? |