Example sentences of "it [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a function of the domanial estate-structure ( sometimes known to English-speaking historians as the manorial system ) , that is of a central directly-farmed agricultural unit , having peasant-tenements grouped around it and owing labour-services on it , and more distant tenements associated with it owing other types of dues and services . |
| 2 | Although joking apart I urge members to support this on principle , I think we should put this in and then it will have to be considered next year , how , where the money will , will come from , and I think that we should establish it that married women with dependant children will get some allowance to help them to stand and represent their communities . |
| 3 | Why is it that clinical usefulness of colonic pressure measurements remains elusive ? |
| 4 | Is it that silly cow in the office ? |
| 5 | ‘ And is it that sublime confidence in yourself that prevents you from marrying her ? |
| 6 | Subtly rounded corners give it that added touch of class , while the slimmer and lighter size adds to a smoother profile in your pocket . |
| 7 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 8 | Jo had bought it that very morning at Aardvarks on Melrose . |
| 9 | How was it that secondary education for all , the organising impulse behind the 1944 Act , should have been interpreted in so restricted a way ? |
| 10 | Perhaps now might be the point to question whether this type of analysis belongs in Screen at all — is n't it unreconstructed literary criticism of the most discredited kind , combing through the textual evidence to find traces of what the author ‘ really thought ’ ? |
| 11 | Item — Did Alexander III die on Kinghorn Ness or was it some cunning stratagem of the King ? |
| 12 | Was it some supernatural sentinel of the Scarabae ? |
| 13 | Is this approach justified on the available evidence , or is it another premature presupposition without a true basis ? |
| 14 | When BMK joined the Stoddard Group in 1992 it brought with it another large chunk of Stoddard 's carpet manufacturing history . |
| 15 | The ‘ executive ’ power today is important in part because it carries with it such wide powers of initiation of legislation . |
| 16 | Coun Williams went on : ‘ I am told that when the property was first leased it required considerable investment by the developer to convert it into a hotel , and that the terms of the lease reflect that . |
| 17 | Last night the TEC held it annual public meeting at Marton Hotel and Country Club near Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | ‘ I take it these anonymous friends of yours will be stayin' for the rest of the party ? ’ |
| 19 | Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 . |
| 20 | Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 . |
| 21 | THE Marquis continued his rich vein of form yesterday when 11/8 shot Rainbow Lake 's success at Newbury made it three winning naps in a row . |
| 22 | The YCL internal bulletin , Communist Youth , was replaced by the weekly Challenge ; the new paper had a popular appeal which gained it 20,000 regular subscribers within two years . |
| 23 | This uplift brought with it many large colonies of corals one of which , this massive colony of , we sampled and brought back to the lab . |
| 24 | Oh it those huge puddles along the path sometimes take ages to clear away . |
| 25 | Amanieu VII 's marriage to Rose de Bourg brought with it important landed possessions around Bourg and Blaye ; his daughter Mathe married Renaud de Pons , lord of Bergerac , in 1314 , and was to give the Albret a significant foothold on the borders of Périgord ; while Amanieu 's son , Bérard I ( d. 1346 ) who was lord of Vayres and Vertheuil in the Entre-deux-Mers , acquired the castles and lordships of Langoiran and Podensac for his cadet son Amanieu through the latter 's marriage to Mabille d'Escossan in 1345 . |
| 26 | And make it one long road of shops . |
| 27 | This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well . |
| 28 | This problem has to be tackled head on ; without it any other tinkering with the legislation is just a waste of time . ’ |
| 29 | By contrast , when innovation is discrete and there can be only one winner of an R&D race , own and rivals ' R&D substitute for each other , meaning that spillovers from firm i to firm j reduce i 's chances of winning the current R&D race without giving it any compensating advantages in the future . |
| 30 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |