Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in 1948 , a State of Emergency was declared in Malaya , but here the British made it clear that they would stand and fight . |
| 2 | Macmillan , however , was confident that the Americans would provide Polaris , at a price , if the British needed it later were the Skybolt project to fail . |
| 3 | She was not unaware that Therese disapproved of the use of her mother 's Christian name — the French had it all straight , about the family , about death , and how to talk about it ; and they did talk : familiar with death . |
| 4 | The Germans and the French consider it impossible to have a central bank in the EC without binding rules , sanctions and other instruments for imposing economic policy , since ‘ even an independent central bank can not ensure price stability alone , as monetary policy does not operate in a vacuum , but rather has close links with other fields ’ . |
| 5 | However , the steadily increasing weight of express trains in the 1890s made it obvious that more powerful locomotives would be required . |
| 6 | The first accords qualified privilege unconditionally ; the second grants it subject to the condition that a reasonable right of reply must have been afforded to victims of privileged defamations . |
| 7 | The swelling made it impossible to discern his expression , but it was easy to see that the lower half of his face would always be grotesquely twisted . |
| 8 | Why does the separation of the mental from the physical make it impossible to show that we understand what it is for there to be other minds than our own , given the separation of the mental from the physical ? |
| 9 | Thus Deacon has shown how ‘ the genuinely seeking work test ’ was manipulated in the 1920s to make it difficult for unemployed people to establish their claim to benefit . |
| 10 | The first makes it easy to see which foods are low in calories and which are high in dietary fibre by listing the calorie and fibre content of average or easily recognizable portions of all the basic foods . |
| 11 | The seventh to make it minor you would |
| 12 | If the centrality of the military is clear in the relatively open policy-making process of the United States , it is less so in Britain and the old Soviet Union ( and now Russia ) , whose continued high spending levels on the military make it clear that the military will be no less active if and when it perceives its interests threatened . |
| 13 | The fluid political situation in the 1930s made it inevitable that the " Left " was strengthened as it was in all other democratic societies . |
| 14 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |