Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wealth to those who deem it important has a destructive effect on happiness because thinking about money is demoralising . |
| 2 | Turning from the hardware of sea rescue to the people who make it possible the Chairman emphasised that the contribution of lifeboat crews could not be stressed too highly . |
| 3 | I know she would be proud of you , the fund raisers , who make it possible . |
| 4 | And indeed I will argue shortly that ‘ accuracy ’ in language is beside the point ; feminist reformers who make it central to their analyses have inadvertently made clear its very serious shortcomings . |
| 5 | ‘ What is new in the book is that we 've produced surviving British intelligence officers of senior rank who make it clear that Popov had this information and was specifically sent to the US to impart it . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed Bob Arum , the promoter , who put it all down to a conflict of styles , recently dismissed his ranked middleweight Michael Nunn for such a negative performance . |
| 7 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 8 | It was left to Vineyard who put it wide of the post . |
| 9 | There are two human types , basically , people who bottle their emotions up and people who let it all come roaring out . |
| 10 | My face resembled the back of one of those baboons who let it all hang out at mating time . |
| 11 | TEN PEOPLE WHO OWE IT ALL TO THE FACE ( All right then , ten we helped along the way ) |
| 12 | But not the water gymnastics or the 5 o'clock jog for those who like it hot ! |
| 13 | Mr Major is only one of a majority of politicians who like it hot at the Kundan . |
| 14 | ‘ But on the whole the ones who like it best are the ones who 've gone away . ’ |
| 15 | they must keep turning round to your right until you point at them , and you must n't go the short way , and you can play like erm , sort of version of musical chairs where you eliminate the ones who get it wrong , you know , |
| 16 | Addition ( 1974 ) : Churning out the same stuff gives one that sick , ecky feeling in the head and I think in advanced cases the feeling is counter corrected in the head to one of numbed atrophy which is shown in those people who find it impossible to let thought in conversation run fluidly-fluently but must talk tensely about weather , colour of curtains , ailments , grouses . |
| 17 | Alex Stanley , general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers ' Association , said : ‘ There will obviously be an adverse reaction from staff who find it impossible to stop . |
| 18 | But historical scholarship gives this notion the lie : since the form was originally prescribed for sexist reasons , feminists who find it sexist are hardly projecting some novel and bizarre interpretation onto an innocent and neutral rule . |
| 19 | For those of you who find it necessary to re-boot your system more than once a day this utility is invaluable . |
| 20 | And remember that some of us are ‘ larks ’ who find it easy to be bright and efficient early in the morning but need to go to bed relatively early at night . |
| 21 | Research on conformity has shown that individuals with higher levels of ability conform less to group norms than those with lower levels of ability ; individuals with strong relationship goals will identify with group norms more readily than those individuals for whom multiple , close relationships are not important ; highly authoritarian individuals conform more than less authoritarian individuals ; individuals who find it hard to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ conform more readily than those who find it easy ; and individuals with strong structure goals conform more willingly . |
| 22 | But it 's not just the scientists who find it fascinating here . |
| 23 | There are merchant bankers who find it convenient to stir up apprehension with a view to drumming up business for themselves . ’ |
| 24 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 25 | Members hope to convince Mr Milburn that he should be targeting criminals who find it easier than ever to get hold of an unlicensed firearm . |
| 26 | May we be patient with people who find it hard to understand us . |
| 27 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 28 | And a little added to an almond base , and used as a massage oil , can help those who find it hard to sleep . |
| 29 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 30 | Research on conformity has shown that individuals with higher levels of ability conform less to group norms than those with lower levels of ability ; individuals with strong relationship goals will identify with group norms more readily than those individuals for whom multiple , close relationships are not important ; highly authoritarian individuals conform more than less authoritarian individuals ; individuals who find it hard to ‘ see the wood for the trees ’ conform more readily than those who find it easy ; and individuals with strong structure goals conform more willingly . |