Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this maxim seems especially appropriate for the seed trade , in spite of it insatiable appetite for novelty . |
| 2 | I mean the point would be to give it that kind of pzazz that the young kids love so much . |
| 3 | It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’ |
| 4 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |
| 5 | They wanted it that way in order to save making and breaking camp . |
| 6 | And the slick export companies and landowners are anxious to keep it that way in order to retain total flexibility in hiring , firing and wage levels . |
| 7 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 8 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never asked it that sort of question , ’ he said . |
| 10 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 11 | now that family , you know , the Mirror , you know it , it , it that sort of thing |
| 12 | Now , am I to take it that sort of appeal will have a very low priority , I mean , how about Oxfam for example ? |
| 13 | Partly , Davie believes , because the British are now too ignorant of prosody to be able to hear Bunting 's precise , subtle music ; partly because , as an associate of Pound and Zukovsky , he is ‘ an embarrassment to the numerous English historians who would have it that modernism in poetry was a temporary , American-inspired distraction from a native tradition … ’ |
| 14 | It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . |
| 15 | No , it is all due to the faithful old Sun going through it usual cycle of activity and the so called dragons turn out to be early sightings of aurorae . |
| 16 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 17 | Few managers admit that boredom is a threat to the job but equally few would deny that being part of a pilot scheme or of being part of a trial run of new development can carry with it some air of excitement . |
| 18 | This put it some way below soccer hooliganism , which 75 per cent thought was wrong , and the use of soft drugs such as cannabis ( 60 per cent ) . |
| 19 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 20 | The inroad of foreign capital always means for it some loss of independence , and it has nothing to gain by agreement among competing Empires … |
| 21 | Is it some sort of reference to your own noble persistence in trying to restore our marriage ? |
| 22 | Was it some sort of ruse or what ? |
| 23 | ‘ Is it some sort of insurance policy ? ’ |
| 24 | It 'll give it some form of protection which we have n't got round to doing the erm oh |
| 25 | But jazz vocalism — and with it this kind of tension — has been a strong influence on popular singing , from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra down to many recent performers . |
| 26 | Was it this kind of intrusion that made Jean-Claude anxious ? |
| 27 | Only two housewives actually see it this way without reservations ; Dorothy Underwood , a cinema manager 's wife and the mother of three children under four , and Sandra Bishop , the wife of a painter and decorator and the mother of one child : |
| 28 | I , I take My Noble Friend 's point indeed , but I think nonetheless er that er I have to say that there is a degree that we put it this way of understanding of how the process works rather more informally than the manner in which my Noble Friend has put it . |
| 29 | So let's it hear it this morning for Allan Lamb . |
| 30 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |