Example sentences of "it at [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sent for her confessor because she was in mortal sin ; she had withheld from him in confession a sin of which she was ashamed , but because he spoke sharply to her , she did not confess it at all this time either . |
| 2 | I did n't like the look of it at all this morning . |
| 3 | I spotted it and lost it at that last roundabout . |
| 4 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 5 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 6 | It is scooped shallowly out on the left of the esplanade , and forms an oval more than 200 yards long ; 20,000 people can be in it at any one time . |
| 7 | Some 64pc of those entitled to Family Credit receive it at any one time . |
| 8 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 9 | The training environment for this must always be an 8m x 8m ( 9.5yd x 9.5 yd ) area , and you should practise until you are sure of your position within it at any given time . |
| 10 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 11 | But you can never quite identify it at any given moment . |
| 12 | The only way you can do it at any particular point that 's the trouble . |
| 13 | In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem . |
| 14 | Mr Major said Opposition leader John Smith 's message was like Napoleon 's : ‘ Not tonight Josephine , we 'll debate it at some other time ’ . |
| 15 | We 'll debate it at some other time . |
| 16 | This includes a good proportion of the population as , in addition to persons currently employed by the state , many others have been employed by it at some earlier stage in their lives . |
| 17 | Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment . |
| 18 | You 're talking to it at this very moment , you 're talking it out , you 're talking it down , and you want my help . |
| 19 | Making the bend in a bamboo stick is surprisingly easy over a candle flame or similar , but be careful not to burn it at this vital centre point of the kite ! |