Example sentences of "it a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a consciously ironic reversal of the negative stereotype of blacks ? |
| 2 | Through its near monopoly of education the Church instilled into those who did not rebel against it a profoundly conservative system of religious , social and political values . |
| 3 | The inference is that the ritual remained as a memory in the Middle Ages , if not in actuality , and was linked with historical personages to give it a little more authenticity . |
| 4 | The taste of Guinness produces a fleeting dryness that makes it a most agreeable way to put an edge on an appetite . |
| 5 | This makes it a most useful instrument not only for solo pieces but also for the support of voices . |
| 6 | On the face of it a most ingenious scheme . |
| 7 | I 'm a great believer in it , I , I park my car close to that and find it a most convenient way of travelling around . |
| 8 | They all find it a most rewarding day . ’ |
| 9 | Not only was the amount of rubbish an eyesore , the conditions were such that anyone wishing to spend a night , whether in emergency circumstances or voluntarily , would find it a most unpleasant experience . |
| 10 | Flavour is reminiscent of fragrant China tea , making it a most acceptable afternoon drink , but it also has some medicinal use . |
| 11 | Highly trained Marines would have been utterly thorough , and would never yield to the malaise of combat , that battle-weary yearning to be done with a ghastly campaign , to rate it a probably total triumph , a practically unqualified success . |
| 12 | Get out there and give it a jolly good rogering . |
| 13 | The second feature of George Stephen 's narrative which gave it a markedly ideological cast was its distancing of the movement from the kind of radicalism and militant nonconformity of the 1830s and 1840s many of his readers associated with antislavery . |
| 14 | It depends , if you need them they 're involvement then you may have to do it a slightly different way or maybe it 's the case that they have to accept this or that you 're gon na turn them over too . |
| 15 | Let's let's make it a slightly different problem . |
| 16 | The fact that anti-perfectionism is based on restraint , on not doing as much good as one can , lends it a slightly paradoxical air . |
| 17 | She seems to find it a slightly amusing object . |
| 18 | Is it a straightforwardly positive thing or is it — as Lakoff might suggest — a disadvantage in many situations ? |
| 19 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 20 | This seemingly innocuous statement carries with it a completely new strategy for treating the 200 million or so malaria sufferers around the world . |
| 21 | This is not an educated guess , call it a completely uneducated guess , but I have an odd feeling that this is one of your planes , sir — an American plane . |
| 22 | Nor is it a completely objective evaluation . |
| 23 | The A48 at Westbury on Severn was badly hit , with several feet of water in places , making it a decidedly soggy beat for police trying to sort out the chaos . |
| 24 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It had occurred to me that if the substance known as Potassium Chlorate were to be contained in some small vessel with the right quantity of Sulphur , and the compound impacted — that is to say , if I hit it a pretty fair whack with a pestle — the result would be an explosion . ’ |
| 26 | Often , in private , one thought it a pretty silly instinct . |
| 27 | Indeed , the cross was such an enormous stumbling block that we have in it a rather surprising proof of the genuineness of primitive Christianity . |
| 28 | Though in her anger she 'd told him it was no more than he deserved , in reality she considered it a rather low thing to have done . |
| 29 | Style , however , is often misused if the approach is ill-founded or unsystematic , and such failures have tended to give it a rather poor reputation . |
| 30 | I found it a rather disgusting product of a self-admitted drug damaged brain . |