Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 2 | This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings . |
| 3 | The orange tree is particularly interesting for it produces three different-smelling essences with differing therapeutic properties : neroli ( blossom ) , petit-grain ( leaves ) and orange ( rind ) . |
| 4 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 5 | Officially 20 acres of arable land was regarded as standard , but with some of it left fallow each year , many people must have got by with much less in practice , for in East Anglia , c . |
| 6 | Some of it looks nice , but I would n't like |
| 7 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 8 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |
| 9 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 10 | In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds . |
| 11 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 12 | Beginning with a modest advance of £6,000 to James I in 1613 , his formal loans culminated in his truly massive advances of the war years 1624–9 , amounting to more than £127,000 , much of it to finance English and foreign military operations ; not to mention the £55,000 which he and the Russia Company magnate Sir Ralph Freeman advanced in 1624 . |
| 13 | Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous . |
| 14 | Though it travels through some wonderful hill country the Way is n't a tough route — much of it follows level footpaths with plenty of riverside walking . |
| 15 | Much of it seems realistic and sensible : ‘ Do not threaten to call the police . |
| 16 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 17 | The worst of it got better . |
| 18 | I want to read all of it to make sure that it appears in Hansard . |
| 19 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 20 | The Council had resolved to prepare a plan prior to it becoming mandatory . |
| 21 | Today , a large proportion of the EC research budget is devoted to industrial projects , especially in the development of basic technology prior to it becoming marketable . |
| 22 | And all around it rise some of the most shapely and challenging mountains in Europe : Ushba , Schkelda , Dykhtau , Koshtan Tau , the great block of Dongus Orun and countless others crying out for attention . |
| 23 | If they can establish that literacy in itself constructs superior logical functions , then it will follow that those without it have inferior logical functions . |
| 24 | At — 0.7 V it becomes neutral and the resistance rises . |
| 25 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 26 | As a result , an alumina implant can shield the surrounding bone from the stresses generated by normal activity , and the bone loses the stimulation which is necessary for it to remain healthy . |
| 27 | And also , as a children 's programme , I was intent upon it containing basic factual information that could be described as educational- — or , at least , mind-opening for them . |
| 28 | Fucking alright , I have n't been up to the today , I 've spent most of it sat fucking here . |