Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] it " in BNC.

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1 Since the Earth is about 216 solar radii from the Sun , the solar-wind image must be enlarged about 216 times when it reaches us .
2 However , it is accepted that there will be specific cases where it is necessary to leave the salvage with the Policyholder for the purposes of a settlement , in which case some adjustment should be made to the settlement figure .
3 Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed .
4 I 've no idea whether Europe is going to work , no one has , and I can think of huge historical reasons why it wo n't .
5 However , in the few cases where it does occur , this type of update pattern makes timing calculations relatively easy .
6 Nevertheless , there are some cases where it is easy to recognise that the feasible region is bounded .
7 Yet there are some cases where it is clear that the views in the Commons were decisive .
8 In some cases where it is geographically and numerically feasible this has been done within the Catholic sector e.g. Hounslow ; in other areas , normally where a Catholic school stands alone , it has been done in conjunction with State schools e.g. Corby .
9 As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out .
10 He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton .
11 He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton .
12 It is certain the board would prefer to see Mr Weir re-elected as it tries to keep a united front over the next few months when it has to produce new proposals for its future which are acceptable to the Scottish Office and the Office of Fair Trading .
13 Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill .
14 The engine may be seen on Sundays and on some Saturdays when it is operated .
15 Another form of sun-clock employing the direction rather than the length of the sun 's shadow was the sundial , but the Egyptians who invented it were far from understanding the subtleties involved in making an accurate instrument of this type , which must be calibrated for the latitudes of the different places where it is to be used .
16 Do you remember the old days when it was standard practice to put one paper on top of another ?
17 On some days when it looks good and I let it dry naturally it goes curly .
18 I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets
19 Picture a once decent apartment building in the Bronx , New York , a part of the city where poverty , drug abuse , AIDS , and prostitution abound , and witness over a few years how it is transformed into a miserable squat and ultimately bulldozed to make way for a new police station .
20 The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse .
21 There are quite a few situations where it is normal for the tonic syllable to come earlier in the tone-unit .
22 Although this regulation of tortious liability is not of itself a contractual issue , there are some situations where it has great importance for business contracts , for instance in the area of pre-contract negotiations .
23 It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road .
24 The little tern 's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage .
25 A couple , okay , after the six months when it stops , presumably we 're going to be in a position of , on State Benefits .
26 Briefly summing up , there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little , he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter .
27 The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia .
28 The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership .
29 True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained .
30 No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all .
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