Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 2 | The Bush administration is now considering national petrol tax to encourage public transport where it exists . |
| 3 | BRITAIN is a small , overcrowded island yet it has a tradition of being a safe haven for refugees . |
| 4 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 5 | I sat a moment cursing the junkie builders , then suddenly the thought came : Hang on , Jimbo , this could be good news ( there 's nothing like a crack on the nut with a lead pipe to wake a body up ) , this could mean we 've got fresh water piped to the back door whenever it rains , and sucks to the waterboard . |
| 6 | The ape keyed the lift panel so that the elevator would go to the very top floor where it opened directly into McIllvanney 's apartment . |
| 7 | ‘ But if it was a political act then it affects Scotland and excites my interest . ’ |
| 8 | Simply take a length of split foam pipe insulation , and slip it over the offending cable where it passes over the sill . |
| 9 | An office which is assiduous about publication and publicity , but which is often seen as outside the dialogues of current architectural concern in the USA , deserves a more judicious appraisal then it has received , here or elsewhere . |
| 10 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 11 | The canal can be readily followed from the river near Canonica d'Adda through to the Central Station where it peters out beside Via Tirano . |
| 12 | A defendant 's costs order may also be made in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) by a magistrates ' court where an information has been laid before magistrates but not proceeded with ; or where the magistrates ' court inquiring into an indictable offence as examining justices determines not to commit the accused for trial ; ( 2 ) by the Crown Court where the defendant is not tried for an offence for which he or she had been indicted or committed for trial ; or the defendant who has been convicted of an offence before a magistrates ' court appeals against conviction or sentence and , in consequence of that appeal , the conviction is set aside or a less severe punishment is awarded ; ( 3 ) by the Divisional Court where it deals with any criminal appeal ; ( 4 ) by the Court of Appeal where it allows an appeal against conviction or sentence or on such an appeal finds the defendant guilty of a different offence or imposes a different sentence ; ( 5 ) by the House of Lords where it determines a criminal appeal , or application for leave to appeal . |
| 13 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 14 | Its members organized aid for the Republican government while its leaders felt unable to do so until the following year when it became clear that neither Germany nor Italy had the slightest intention of discouraging aid to Franco . |
| 15 | Let's have a little look how it goes again if I may . |
| 16 | The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . " |
| 17 | I thought mine had n't come out , then when I went out there a little while ago it had come out , but so late in the year moved it , it was all in big clump under the oh I 've got great big clump under the tree and not one of them , either of them had a , a bloom on , so I said useless , |
| 18 | A little while ago it come too much for me cos I 'd got a lot to pay . |
| 19 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 20 | Anyway , it was a lon , there 's a little restaurant in the road , and it was back of sort of erm Mar , if you wal , you crossed over and if you went through a little slip where it came , you came into this little arcade of shops where o , about in the road next to er |
| 21 | The little door there it tells you |
| 22 | Mr Murray continued , ‘ If the AEA is to be thought of as having a united corporate image then it has to behave as such : for example we have countless and diverse literature/publications produced ( independently ) by the Businesses , thereby leaving our customers confused . |
| 23 | You 're that 's right you 're you 're giving the impression that it 's about a human being then it turns out to be about an animal , now come back to the question what point is being made ? |
| 24 | Help from the state to assist the poor is a socialist idea yet it seems to be enthusiastically welcomed by some Conservative Members . |
| 25 | For if there really is only one version of good primary practice then it becomes obvious that everyone should subscribe to it . |
| 26 | They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian ( derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated ) , and by Shakespeare 's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness . |
| 27 | Indeed , he even had a buccaneering moment when it seemed to him that to have a choc-bar himself would do the trick of making him exactly like her . |
| 28 | If a hypothesis is falsified by the empirical evidence then it has to be changed to explain that evidence . |
| 29 | I asked Grand Met how it justified the rent increases being imposed . |
| 30 | This is the primary reason why it has proved so hard to achieve structural change in many areas . |