Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting . |
| 2 | All too soon it became politic to think about returning Tony 's toy to its rightful owner . |
| 3 | The Town Development Act , 1952 , did not apply to Scotland and it became necessary to cope with Glasgow 's housing problem by means of a second New Town . |
| 4 | It became necessary to look for other employment . |
| 5 | Underlying confidence was such that the system survived the extraordinary madness of the South Sea Bubble in 1720 , so well that , once the vapour had cleared , it became possible to talk of beneficial outcomes from history 's most infamous bursting . |
| 6 | Since the end of last month it became illegal to burn off the stubble after harvest — that leaves farmers with the options of either ploughing it in or looking for alternative uses for it . |
| 7 | When they grew up , it became fashionable to return to the warehouses and hold huge parties there . |
| 8 | The second challenge came in the 1950s , when it became fashionable to speak of the demise of the nation state as a result of the development of nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | It became important to get off the top quickly . |
| 10 | It became customary to refer to all bovines as ‘ black cattle ’ in order to distinguish them from other ‘ cattle ’ such as horses , sheep and pigs . |
| 11 | Indeed , in the trial of Ford Motor Company in Indiana , 1978 , it became evident according to Swigert and Farrell , that : |
| 12 | ‘ I could never bring myself to live there , ’ she said , and then , in a way characteristic of her , ‘ Besides , it needs thousands spent on it before civilized people could live in it . ’ |
| 13 | The mainstream right already controls the Senate , almost all the regional councils ( 19 out of 21 ) , three-quarters of the departmental councils and a majority of the municipal councils — and now it looks likely to win at least 75 per cent and possibly as much as 85 per cent of the seats in the National Assembly . |
| 14 | ‘ There has been enormous pressure on this , and it has all come from California . |
| 15 | It fits perfectly the charm and naivety of the early to mid-fifties ; it has little to do with the self conscious posturings of the later period that Scobie wishes to impute to it ; most of all that of the ‘ Beat generation ’ , for most of the book had been written before Howl howled and junkie commenced the near-universal junketings . |
| 16 | It has little to do with the quality of his jokes or the televisual cut of his suiting , although adequate performance here is important . |
| 17 | It has little to do with local regional architecture . |
| 18 | However , there is plenty of evidence that many of the teachers whose working lives will be transformed by the introduction of LMS still think it has little to do with them . |
| 19 | This sliding-scale approach might still have relevance to the Post Office Act , on which that case turned , but it has little to do with obscenity as defined in the 1959 Act . |
| 20 | Western society places the highest value on the most abstract , thus creating an elitism which means many people feel alienated from mathematics , and , apart from small groups , feel it has little to do with their lives . |
| 21 | As a theory , it has little to contribute to our reflective self-understanding of ourselves as agents of inquiry . |
| 22 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 23 | It is clear that reading is a dynamic activity in which the reader is actively involved — that it has much to do with the reader 's thought processes . |
| 24 | In its more specific uses it has much to contribute by way of correction to generalizing uses of culture' . |
| 25 | When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers . |
| 26 | It has more to do with geography . |
| 27 | The fact that his form has been positively Bradmanesque may have something to do with this , but one suspects it has more to do with the ‘ Get Out of Jail Free ’ card he appears to be clutching . |
| 28 | Rather than being selected for our speciality , which also extends to French naturalism and British art generally at the turn of the century , I believe it has more to do with our publishing scholarly catalogues over the years and with our track record as dealers . |
| 29 | By recognising that it has more to learn from Hanson than to fear . |
| 30 | If , as the Department of Health survey reveals , most Brits are monogamous , it has less to do with morality than the fact that they believe a sexual partner is someone who helps you change the duvet . |