Example sentences of "it [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
2 | Or is it rather a transgressive reinscription , a demonic perversion of the sacred ? |
3 | ‘ Is n't it rather a long walk ? ’ |
4 | Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little . |
5 | But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding . |
6 | They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river . |
7 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
8 | Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones |
9 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
10 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
11 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
12 | If a weaving yarn is thick and slubby , consider weaving it only every third row . |
13 | There is , then , a long-established subcultural reading of Brief Encounter that cuts across its ostensible/mainstream meaning , but does this have any substantive base in the text itself or is it only a collective fantasy , a shared ‘ special thrill ’ ? |
14 | But is this a legal or is it only a political right ? |
15 | Then he stopped , remembering that his status aboard the Simonova carried with it only a limited amount of authority . |
16 | This is not a new problem , nor is it only a local problem . |
17 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
18 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
19 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |
20 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |
21 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
22 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
23 | Yeah I know , you know , there 'll be two pound postage on it you can guarantee on it so the crafty devils they are |
24 | Turn the right side ( smooth side of knitting ) to the inside and fold it so the two side edges of the knitting can be sewn together to make a tube . |
25 | I have found no evidence that at any stage anyone said ‘ what is this Sterling Area , and is it obviously a good thing for Britain ? ’ |
26 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
27 | This master , who seems to have learnt from the Pistoxenos Painter , is clearly much influenced by the great painting of his time but always remains faithful to the single base-line , feeling it perhaps a proper convention for vase-decoration . |
28 | was a gift , was it perhaps an onerous gift like that in Johnsey Estates Ltd. v. Lewis & Manley and cases cited in the Note , above , p. 199 ? |
29 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
30 | The action around the fretboard 's upper regions is perhaps tougher than some would like , but there 's enough height at the bridge-saddle to bring it down a fair way . |