Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was funny it made a loud noise but it hurt my ankle as well . |
| 2 | When I found some it had a strange smell — of sweet and sour sauce — and it seemed to be very moist . |
| 3 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 4 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |
| 5 | As such it offers a wide range of services : ‘ These include hardware , consultancy , on-site training and a telephone support hotline , ’ says Peter Munson . |
| 6 | The prosody of Dame Sirith may be unobtrusive , but as such it represents a smooth and polished performance that itself contributes to the tone of the work . |
| 7 | The announcement effectively signalled the government 's intention to end its state of war with mainland China and as such it removed a major obstacle to closer ties with the Chinese government . |
| 8 | Congress has always been better staffed than its counterparts elsewhere in the world and by 1979 it had a total staff of 23,056 . |
| 9 | Furthermore , in 1648 it passed a restrictive Blasphemy Act , which threatened those convicted of denying the central tenets of Christianity with death , and those dissenting from orthodox Calvinist theology with imprisonment . |
| 10 | In 1920 it routed a Polish army to the suburbs of Warsaw and at the end of the following year launched an invasion of the Menshevik Republic of Georgia after its government had quelled an internal Bolshevik uprising . |
| 11 | Work-wise it followed a similar pattern to the previous day . |
| 12 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 13 | But in September Nineteen Ninety it plunged a hundred and fifty feet into the river . |
| 14 | Close by reared the immense domed bulk of the Palais de Justice , a complex so large it covered a greater area than St Peter 's in Rome . |
| 15 | For the year to March 31 it made a pre-tax loss of £9.8m , compared with a massive £448.4m last time . |
| 16 | Now , in his early thirties , he was surrounded by an aura of such vital confidence that she was sure it attracted a positive response from anyone within his orbit . |
| 17 | I 'm sure it says a written comment must be made for each subject . |
| 18 | If you carry a handbag , make sure it has a secure clasp or zip . |
| 19 | when buying a new model opt for a smaller vehicle which consumes less fuel and make sure it has a catalytic converter fitted |
| 20 | Although this is still far too many it represents a substantial improvement . |
| 21 | For most people , retirement does not offer such vistas ; for many it represents a grinding poverty , and the monotony of a life-style structured by the meagre levels of state pensions . |
| 22 | Did you find that so many it took a long time for change to take place |
| 23 | In 1981 it had a total income of 171 million pounds for the whole year . |
| 24 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 25 | Or in 1982 the Navy would fight the Falklands , the very spot where in 1914 it won a spectacular victory and uncannily on both occasions the flagship was called Invincible . |
| 26 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
| 27 | In 1977 it launched a British arm and began to campaign against everything from seal culling to nuclear weapons testing . |
| 28 | Amongst those who were Conservative or Labour before the campaign , press bias had about a 6 per cent effect ; amongst those who originally had an Alliance preference it had a 23 per cent effect ; while amongst those who were originally undecided it had a 28 per cent effect — measuring all these effects in terms of the Conservative lead over Labour ( Table 8.14 ) . |
| 29 | In the shorthand this would be written 2 H , but being so fundamental it has a special name and symbol of its own , d for the deuteron , the nucleus of the deuterium atom ( symbol D ) . |
| 30 | In short it imposes a uniform structure on the universities ( Wissenschaftliche Hochschulen and Kunsthochschulen ) and polytechnics ( Fachhochschulen ) which together with some extras such as teacher and theological training constitute Germany 's current provision for higher education . |