Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he was quite gutted to miss it by one , maybe one well two , two questions . |
| 2 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 4 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 5 | His view of the visible church , for example , was much wider than that of even Whitgift , as he appeared to argue that since Christ had died for all , all men and women — including Roman Catholics — were potentially part of the visible church , and as such should be offered the sacrament of the eucharist , if they were prepared to receive it in good faith . |
| 6 | That had been rather exciting and they were prepared to recount it at considerable length until Narouz intervened and told them to shut up . |
| 7 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 8 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 9 | Also , blotting paper is fairly costly to buy so it is much more economical to use it for pressing time and time again . |
| 10 | The DEA was free to use it for any covert operation it wished , but if anything went wrong , Hurley could always say , ‘ Oh , you mean that Cypriot boat . ’ |
| 11 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 12 | This anonymous peasant sensed intuitively the lack of communication between the centre and the grass roots , and was prepared to overcome it through personal effort . |
| 13 | The kind of non-randomness that can be generated by simple sieving is roughly equivalent to opening a combination lock with one one dial : it is easy to open it by sheer luck . |
| 14 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 15 | Er perhaps it is impossible to answer it in this forum but I think it remains an open question sir . |
| 16 | The wall is not in fact vertical though it is easy to misremember it as such , because it rises in three distinct layers of limestone , to heights of 6,900 , 8,500 and finally some 9,000 feet , with a filling of ice and snow on the slopes that divide one layer from the next . |
| 17 | Cassie was content to leave it at that . |
| 18 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |
| 19 | But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes . |
| 20 | When you consider that we have a mortgage book of roughly £50 billion , you can see that it would be impossible to offer it to all our borrowers . |
| 21 | So important is this consideration , and it would be perfunctory to regard it as mere vanity , that it may motivate performances to anonymous and usually unconcerned strangers . |
| 22 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 23 | This particular eel ( I think ) has much to endear it to those of us that keep some of the more serious ‘ oddballs ’ . |
| 24 | The sack of Rome in 1527 by the troops of the Emperor Charles V finally forced Clement VII to agree to a Council , though it was left to Paul III to summon it in 1544 . |
| 25 | Though he is too politically cautious to admit it in public , Mr Reilly knows he needs taxes as a weapon in the environmental arsenal , even if they are disguised under another label . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps I can persuade you that the life of a vigneronne has much to recommend it after all . ’ |
| 27 | This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries . |
| 28 | There is usually a square grid of lines on the backing , which makes it easy to cut it in straight lines , and a small roll can cover quite a few items . |
| 29 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 30 | She had it done cheap , promising to wear it in all the right places . |