Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 2 | Quickly the English found it so , and considerable confusion developed there as the foremost horses stumbled and floundered and oncoming ranks piled up with the pressure of thousands behind . |
| 3 | Francophone Africa , which once attracted a glimmer of interest , continues to be dominated by the French and nothing seems likely to stimulate the British to explore it further . |
| 4 | The British regarded it as essential to win over Arab opinion by promising postwar independence for Syria and Lebanon ; de Gaulle regarded this as British colonialist meddling in French affairs , and when the British tried to issue a declaration promising independence in their own name as well as Free France 's , he objected that the future of French mandates was none of Britain 's business . |
| 5 | This inferiority problem is shared with most film cultures , but the British felt it particularly hard because the two nations ' cultural and economic histories were so closely entwined . |
| 6 | Barton was the only one of the three to make it as far as the quarters , but he still had to come through another two heats to overhaul Hardman 's tally of points . |
| 7 | French striptease seems to stem from … a mystifying device which consists in inoculating the public with a touch of evil , the better to plunge it afterwards into a permanently immune Moral Good . |
| 8 | The extent of local government reorganization and managerial reform in the UK at the beginning of the 1970s makes it very tempting to argue that a structural change was taking place . |
| 9 | It would be dangerous to assume from this simplification , however , that the two perspectives can be easily separated by the ideological position each adopts , the former tending to see ‘ permissiveness ’ as bad , the latter seeing it as good . |
| 10 | For example , the following two relations in Figure 4.18 , COURSE and SUBJECT , both have course as the key , but the latter has it as only part of the composite key with subject . |
| 11 | This place George Town is something like I should think Thenness [ ? ] when that town was first established although the extensive docks of the latter render it now far more different . |
| 12 | William Dale claims the honour of being the first to reproduce it accurately in his Tschudi the harpsichord maker of 1913 : previous reproductions were so murky as almost to obliterate the harpsichord . |
| 13 | The Dutch launched their much larger East India Company with about £500,000 of capital two years later , and when the English company tried to trade with the Spice Islands the Dutch opposed it fiercely . |
| 14 | Yet the Irish read it right . |
| 15 | The prevalence of many countervailing centres of influence to government , in the form of local associations will in the long-term make it increasingly difficult for governments to concentrate all power in their hands . |
| 16 | They were dressed in the uniform of reserve corps volunteers , and though only one of the two wore it legitimately , it would have been hard to tell which . |
| 17 | Until now , the museum has exhibited only 900 of the 32,000 works it actually owns , though 17,000 of these are drawings , videos and photographs which do not really qualify for permanent showing . |
| 18 | Those who say they like washing up do not like the task itself — one woman likes it because she has a dishwasher , one because she has just acquired a new stainless steel sink , and the third likes it merely ‘ to get it out of the way ’ . |