Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 2 | ‘ Yet none of the major parties has deemed it worthwhile arguing the case for housing . |
| 3 | Only his rash brother , the Lord Edward , forced him to it , ’ and he glanced over at the Earl of Carrick , the said Lord Edward Bruce 's second son , who had now deemed it judicious to desert the Balliol cause . |
| 4 | This much had been confided to him ; and he had deemed it discreet to pry no further — had been persuaded of the wisdom of discretion . |
| 5 | If an ambiguous penal provision should , as a matter of principle , be narrowly construed in the interests of liberty and fairness , a criminal statute which lacked all precision authorising the punishment of whatever conduct officials deemed it expedient to punish — should , on the same principle , be denied any application at all . |
| 6 | He enjoyed it , dangerous though it was for foreigners , but after the fall of Robespierre he had deemed it advisable to leave again . |
| 7 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 8 | One reason why Lloyd George had considered it essential to narrow the gap between the Government 's declared war aims and those of the Labour party was that a crisis was looming in industry over new measures to conscript previously exempted skilled engineers into the Army . |
| 9 | However , it was not at all convinced that a slight penetration with one finger could be regarded as an aggravated assault and yet considered it impractical to distinguish between different forms of digital penetration . |
| 10 | Secondly , all participants in such discussions took a very pessimistic view of the likely scale of bombing casualties , and hence considered it pointless to plan in detail . |
| 11 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , 5 Corps had already considered it necessary to order that force should be permitted . |
| 12 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 13 | Since the university was American funded and run , Colonel Mortimer had considered it prudent to pay it a personal visit as soon as was possible . |
| 14 | Up until this time he had considered it wrong to administer the Lord 's Supper to those whose profession of faith was somewhat dubious . |
| 15 | The exception merely illustrates the general defence , volenti non fit injuria , and would not need special mention here but for the fact that the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords have considered it expedient to take particular notice of it . |
| 16 | ( Only later did we learn that Peking had considered it fashionable to support small countries , struggling against ‘ hegemony ’ . |
| 17 | Fiercely anti-Vichy , Ika 's family had considered it patriotic to have duplicate ration-books ; these they had conveniently retained in a post-Vichy world , and so they wanted for little . |
| 18 | Many have considered it uncontroversial to assert that there is an overall principle which tends to place the least inherent adjective furthest from its noun . |
| 19 | The Building Societies Commission has always considered it desirable to develop disclosure requirements for building societies roughly in parallel with those for the rest of the banking sector . |
| 20 | I 've just done it pretty see |
| 21 | Oh I , he 's done it alright has he ? |
| 22 | Dave had had just the right amount of drink , he had n't been tempted to display his superior knowledge in argument ; he had n't produced any slanderous gossip , he had n't felt it necessary to demonstrate his virility by being overattentive to someone else 's wife . |
| 23 | More urgent was the need to find out why Piper had felt it necessary to shut down the neural net like this . |
| 24 | Shannon managed to smile , wondering why Josh had felt it necessary to explain . |
| 25 | After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families . |
| 26 | And in particular , she did not like at all that he had felt it necessary to give Lubor the instructions he had about her . |
| 27 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |
| 28 | I have not felt it necessary to examine the detailed facts of all the earlier decisions or to consider whether the decisions themselves could or could not be supported . |
| 29 | We must acknowledge that people affected by the virus have felt it necessary to leave their communities here in Gwynedd to seek diagnosis , support and care elsewhere . ’ |
| 30 | And why , he wondered , had he felt it necessary to wash . |