Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 2 | Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax . |
| 3 | Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review . |
| 4 | Rumour has it that last season their manager dressed a dozen tailor 's dummies in Aston Villa strips for his team to practise their passing and dribbling sills . |
| 5 | One estimate has it that British ELT materials are available in more than 100 countries . |
| 6 | Rumour has it this Achtung Baby thang actually lasts for an hour — the assembly is being treated to a full 36 minutes of footage. this either means that a lot of it is rubbish or it 's so blinking brilliant They could n't show the lot lest our brains exploded with pleasure . |
| 7 | The Peavey ( retailing at £315 ) has a definite price advantage over the Crate , but has it any other advantages ? |
| 8 | Nor has it any more to do with Peter 's reforms than might perhaps justify an editorial footnote . |
| 9 | The newest discovery , 3C 324 , comes top with a red-shift of 1.206 , which places it 10 000 million light years from earth . |
| 10 | The Crush purchase boosted Cadbury Schweppes ' soft drinks volumes by 30 per cent to over four billion litres a year , which places it third equal with Dr Pepper-Seven Up behind Coca-Cola 's 46.5 billion litres and Pepsi 's 21.5 billion litres . |
| 11 | I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look . |
| 12 | Cos he he really does it , I do n't know how he does it really , how he gets it all level like that . |
| 13 | ‘ She talks about history , then gets it all wrong . |
| 14 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 15 | It takes it twenty four hours to turn round . |
| 16 | The Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications has released figures relating to planned investment in equipment by the Japanese telecommunications industry in fiscal 1993 , which ends next month ( Japan confusingly calls it fiscal 1992 ) . |
| 17 | Dr C. N. Manlove writes ‘ the Voice ’ off as ‘ providential ’ , and clearly thinks it one more example of the ‘ biased fortune ’ which in his opinion makes it impossible to take the story seriously . |
| 18 | At the terminals the gas is processed and measured for quality and quantity and injected with an odorant which gives it that recognisable smell . |
| 19 | Now iron is the crucial element there , and it gives it this red coloration . |
| 20 | ‘ Italy needs to vote in a system which gives it stronger political groups , ’ he added . |
| 21 | Communism , and the Party — nobody trusts it any more . |
| 22 | He likes it all green do n't you Ant ? |
| 23 | I think she 's all set to do herself some permanent harm if she pushes it any harder . ’ |
| 24 | Stuart Altman , a primatologist at the University of Chicago , has found that the quality of the nutrition a young baboon receives determines it later reproductive success very closely . |
| 25 | That since January I now I have to put two stamps on a week , which makes it eight ninety a week , right ? |
| 26 | So much has already been written about the operational side of the industry that the public tend to take for granted the workforce whose expertise makes it all possible . ’ |
| 27 | Oh my darling , I am too happy and excited to be able to write all the things I want to say to you , so much is crowding in , so much has happened in such a short while and I want to pin down some of this marvellous feeling before it all rushes by and becomes more accepted — because , Betty , I do feel that we accept each other , there is a tolerance , a straightness between us that makes it all possible . |
| 28 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 29 | That makes it all worthwhile . |
| 30 | ‘ True , but their joy in everything makes it all worthwhile . |