Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 2 | Not only has it hived-off its drug side into Zeneca but also , unlike most chemical companies , it is coming out of the recession with no cash worries as the rights issue for the Zeneca shares will pay off most of its debt . |
| 3 | One particular passage , ‘ wonderful silver ship driving through air at 75 miles an hour towards Bermuda ’ , perhaps says it all . |
| 4 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 5 | He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way . |
| 6 | A central organ such as the Training Authority naturally finds it difficult to relax its hold completely but , unless it can ‘ command ’ the situation , it falls to the mercies of local ‘ market ’ economies . |
| 7 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 8 | I 've got a client who races stock cars , but as he only does it three or four times a year , they do n't actually charge him any extra at all . |
| 9 | Its foundations are laid in fostering guilt in people — well , that obviously makes it easier for our Pastors and Masters when we are young . |
| 10 | That fact alone makes it clear that they must have been preceded into the air by other vegetarian forms which , judging from the primitive nature of their anatomy , were probably cockroaches , grasshoppers , locusts and crickets . |
| 11 | When the pain is worse ( < ) for the slightest movement and continued motion only makes it worse still . |
| 12 | This not only makes it unlikely that employers will allow many such sessions per day ( and that is a disadvantage scientifically ) but it also means that the tests , particularly by virtue of necessarily being repetitive , are boring for the subject . |
| 13 | If we know how horses communicate , it not only makes it easier for us to understand them and look after them , but it also makes it possible for us to communicate with them more satisfactorily . |
| 14 | As the novel amply shows , those who want ca n't have and — what only makes it harder to bear — those who have do n't want . |
| 15 | In such cases , as in the community care of frail elderly , the involvement of different professionals in working together makes it inevitable that such differences of perspective and emphasis will arise . |
| 16 | on the Children 's tape , although the first sentence inside makes it clear that it 's a leaflet for children/young people . |
| 17 | ‘ Witnessing the birth of the baby was the experience of a lifetime and then scoring the winner to beat Villa and put us on top of the Premier League just caps it all . |
| 18 | There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry ’ , and that just says it all . |
| 19 | How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ? |
| 20 | Alone in my cabin , then I got comfortable , put all troublesome thoughts out of my mind , and switched on the vid to one of the best of what the vid expressively calls it Everlasting Serials . |
| 21 | This means that the user generally finds it easier to use and data from one program can be easily transferred to another , a feat requiring skill and patience on machines like the PC . |
| 22 | He nevertheless finds it difficult to define , because there is such a thin dividing line between paternalism and being a good corporate citizen . |
| 23 | With an 8% inflation rate , the Philippines anyway finds it hard to compete with most of its successful neighbours . |
| 24 | Apart from the difficulty of chambers , the ordinary person who has no special connections normally finds it easier to get some kind of start on the common law side , where there is a great deal of small work , in county courts and the criminal courts ; on the Chancery side there is no criminal work and all the civil work tends to be fairly important . |
| 25 | ‘ Once or twice , ’ he admitted , ‘ but bicarb generally puts it right . ’ |
| 26 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 27 | Marie strokes the back of my head , but it just makes it worse . |
| 28 | I think that just makes it worse . |
| 29 | Soon as she sees something going wrong , she comes bowling round spreading sweetness and light , and that just makes it worse . ’ |
| 30 | But the one I think just adds to the other , it just makes it clearer . |