Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Your home will not suffer for a couple of weeks without anyone to look after it any more than when you go on holiday .
2 Do n't worry , Aurora — I wo n't be going after it any more . ’
3 Now these limits were fatal , they believed that they could win the war through air power and they , they could n't and the ground casualties , although fairly slight , when you think of it fifty thousand people killed is not a bi a large amount in a major war , far from it erm although erm militarily not that significant , politically they were devastating because people in America started to ask the question , what is this war for ?
4 One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded .
5 Number five ma'am er Madam Speaker examples include the introduction of it new integrated regional offices and the creation of a single regeneration budget from April the first of this year .
6 And the more valuable the horse is , with the consequent likelihood of it being kept in more confined and stressful conditions — stabled in solitude rather than out in the paddock with companions — the greater the chances of it developing colic .
7 He turned away , his feeling of anguish at the nothingness of it all overwhelming him .
8 Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’
9 Sharing hell can make the recognition of it that little bit more bearable , but it is still hell , and the loneliness and despair , the darkness and confusion , are never far from the surface .
10 On the face of it these trivial little improvements , or plus points ahead of the norm look to be insignificant .
11 I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’
12 I could n't see the point of it any more .
13 It may also express other varieties of emphasis — for instance , contrast — but this is in no way required of it any more nor less than of a prenominal adjective .
14 ‘ I 'm not thinking of it any more because it is done . ’
15 It had the feel of it this little garden you know , the doors , the paintwork everything about it it gave you that feel .
16 Now on the face of it those two seem , they 're gon na conflict are n't they ?
17 Two regional blocs have emerged : Israel supported by the United States , and against it certain Arab states supported in part by the Soviet Union .
18 As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority .
19 ‘ The car leaves behind it two long trails of squashy corpses , the tyres and wheels become encrusted with them , while the running boards are soon black with those that still live and crawl . ’
20 So the role of the federal government in financing the states has increased immensely and you might think that carries with it certain political implications and it does , but it 's important to understand how small this is compared to the total picture .
21 At the end of the fourth year , pupils moved to the Upper School — provided out of the building programme , and having associated with it certain specific areas ( science and mathematics , for example , or modern languages ) , which were also available for planned uses by some of the pupils in the Halls .
22 Since , however , the decision carries with it certain significant implications , it is one which must be made in good faith , and on the basis of the exercise of proper medical skill .
23 Privatising social security sounds appealing , but can not itself affect tomorrows resources unless it brings with it higher national savings and investment .
24 And with it tremendous social chaos …
25 This was a function of the domanial estate-structure ( sometimes known to English-speaking historians as the manorial system ) , that is of a central directly-farmed agricultural unit , having peasant-tenements grouped around it and owing labour-services on it , and more distant tenements associated with it owing other types of dues and services .
26 That is a vitally necessary component of creating a free and open market there — but it necessarily brings with it great short-term difficulties .
27 He is , after all , the man who brought The Mahabharata to Scotland — and with it new theatrical inspiration , ingenuity and passion .
28 The ‘ executive ’ power today is important in part because it carries with it such wide powers of initiation of legislation .
29 And with it such social and political change as they shall not understand .
30 This uplift brought with it many large colonies of corals one of which , this massive colony of , we sampled and brought back to the lab .
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