Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course it became apparent that all of mathematics could be made to rest upon a set-theoretic base . |
| 2 | In due course it became known as Thriddle , or Bouncy Shaft . |
| 3 | It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction . |
| 4 | Russian Tsarism faced a challenge of absorbing new elements of society into the Russian social system and dealing with the political consequences of the economic change it introduced . |
| 5 | At a regional level it has been demonstrated that , in 1971 , over 30 per cent of the population in North Wales and Sussex was aged over 60 , compared with the national mean of only 19 per cent ( Law and Warnes 1975 ) . |
| 6 | With admirable diligence it worked away , renouncing its authority over one territory after another . |
| 7 | Why , then , is Vietnam eager to leave , ahead of its previous promised date of December 1990 and without the political settlement it had long demanded ? |
| 8 | This government have to be made to realize what a cruel blow it has struck on the very weakest sections of the community , the unemployed and the five and half million pensioners living in poverty . |
| 9 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 10 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 11 | I have been interested to find out more about the Medau method for some time now — and what a pleasant experience it turned out to be . |
| 12 | It has appeared to me , through all the seclusion of my life & the narrow experience it admitted of , that in nothing , men — & women too ! — were so apt to mistake their own feelings , as in this one thing . |
| 13 | It has erm at the last European Election it had five hundred and twenty two thousand voters , so picking the candidate is really the first stage on s trying to get amongst five hundred and twenty two thousand voters . |
| 14 | Realism is not a narrowing technique , then , but a liberating , and there is no fictional technique it does not , on occasion , readily combine with . |
| 15 | As well as an overwhelming majority in the Regional parliament it controls most of the municipal local authorities . |
| 16 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 17 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |
| 18 | But without a political deal it risks turning bad . |
| 19 | In the strange light it appeared to be slightly tilted , with one edge standing proud of the slabs around it . |
| 20 | For skills and thrills and nailbiting , edge-of-the-seat gladiatorial tension it knocks spots off its US counterpart . |
| 21 | With a burst of terrific speed it headed out to sea . |
| 22 | History just burps , and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago . ) |
| 23 | If cimetidine ( or the hypochlorhydric condition it creates ) as in fact carcinogenic to the gastric mucosa , gastric cancer incidence should be expected to increase only after a period of time after initiation of treatment . |
| 24 | It 's the emotional effect it has . |
| 25 | Both men particularly loved medieval art , admiring the rich decoration and painstaking labour it involved , and their enthusiasm was shared by the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters with whom they were closely associated . |
| 26 | Actively pursuing further ideas for community development and local economic regeneration it presents a challenge to conventional development rationale which focuses upon maximising the leverage of private sector investment for the minimum necessary public expense . |
| 27 | On a practical and tactical level it suggests that groups with common aspirations should seek to engage in broadly-based political alliances to further their shared interests , through a combination of lobbying , pressure-group activity and litigation . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted to write , but when you study English literature it paralyses you from being a creative writer , because what you read is so wonderful all the time , you feel you ca n't possibly pit yourself against them and try yourself . ’ |
| 29 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 30 | Thirdly , this solution was too reminiscent for his liking of the unsuccessful Unión Patriótica ( Patriotic Union ) , an artificial creation which had failed to provide Primo de Rivera 's dictatorship with the spontaneous popular support it had needed to survive . |