Example sentences of "[conj] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essence of Hollywood was that it used actors who became real before the camera ; they were not ciphers there to be manipulated by an all-powerful director but they were actors who were able to combine natural qualities and varied skills and techniques in such a way as to create an on-camera identity . |
| 2 | The importance of Cockburn 's work was that it integrated studies of local political activity into this wider view of the capitalist state . |
| 3 | Make sure that you do not get a link-wire in the wrong place so that it short circuits a secondary winding . |
| 4 | Their main grievances against the education system , which fell under the dual control of the church and state , were that it victimised teachers who showed dissent by questioning the working conditions or salary scale . |
| 5 | The request followed a fierce denunciation by President Saddam Hussein who , on Oct. 5 , had compared UN weapons inspectors to " stray dogs " intent on provoking Iraq to submit to " America and it wicked allies " . |
| 6 | It 's any ancient domestic breed , one of many in eastern Asia , and it main attributes seem to be that it does n't eat much , it grows up quickly , and it 's almost pure lard . |
| 7 | Conference delegates at the 1903 Congress of the International Abolitionist Federation insisted that prostitution needed to be opposed because it isolated women as an outcast class . |
| 8 | Nor did Moscow raise the principles of non-alignment when it transferred arms on a large scale to radical ‘ non-aligned ’ African states in the 1970s or to Afghanistan in the 1980s . |