Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it and [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a mistake to put in a clause that you know will not be enforceable in the hope that employees will be afraid of it and will not try to compete when they leave . |
| 2 | Flexibility on the Pakistani side was shown by the Pakistani Foreign Minister 's recognition of the Soviet Union 's ‘ legitimate interest in expecting that any Government in Kabul should be friendly towards it and should be mindful of its security interests ’ . |
| 3 | Its powers , however , do include a measure of budgetary control and the Commission is responsible to it and can , in the final analysis , be dismissed by it , so that in political terms it enjoys a potential influence of considerable substance which , however , it has not yet fully developed . |
| 4 | Lucille herself never used her title , but she knew Sharpe was perversely proud of it and must have informed the Prince of its existence . |
| 5 | But the Rastas felt that the language was the African people 's own , that they should be proud of it and should set about improving it " ( 1986a : 44 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm really excited about it and will be travelling for nine months , ’ she said . |
| 7 | ‘ You said I was too single-minded about it and should widen my interests , so I am . |
| 8 | There 's absolutely not doubt in my mind that , my mind that a child born erm with a special background will be treated , and feel special about it and will appreciate and understand the the erm the background of the case and and the miseries of th their parents have gone through in orve , in order to have a child . |
| 9 | She becomes frightened of the foal or aggressive towards it and will not let it suckle . |