Example sentences of "it [adj] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Why is it that European companies do not regard looking after their workers well in terms of hours and wages as destroying competitiveness , but instead see it as a way to obtain good work from their workers ? |
| 3 | So what is why is it that labour party oppose education spend ? |
| 4 | Why is it that content words tend to be preserved and function words omitted ? |
| 5 | ‘ Why 's it that stupid colour anyway ? ’ |
| 6 | But if , indeed , higher returns on retirement can be bought at the expense of derisory returns on death , how is it that terminal bonuses play such an important part in the ultimate returns . |
| 7 | Why is it that black kids are so amenable to the influences of their peers ? |
| 8 | Why is it that black kids develop their sporting progress to the point that , by the time they leave school , their educational motivation is rather low , while their sporting motivation is soaring ? |
| 9 | And , finally , why is it that black kids find support for the idea that they have only limited employment opportunities ahead of them , not only from their peers but also from the school ? |
| 10 | In an account based on the Sanford-Garrod framework , we take it that plural reference is possible if more than one atomic entity is mapped into a single role-slot in an elicited representation . |
| 11 | At the terminals the gas is processed and measured for quality and quantity and injected with an odorant which gives it that recognisable smell . |
| 12 | Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax . |
| 13 | Was it that alienated man was deaf to the language of the hills and valleys , the forests and the shore ? |
| 14 | ( Is it that good colour vision at small visual angles has been more important for frugivorous monkeys than for our own recent ancestors ? ) |
| 15 | In time , she hoped that some theatrical Producer would see to it that Shakespearian plays were performed on the cliffs again , as they had been in the nineteen thirties . |
| 16 | He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies . |
| 17 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 18 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 19 | Perhaps there are so many new routes being done West Cumbria that the writers can not keep up ; or is it that other areas are more important to the committee ? |
| 20 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 21 | If the Government are so committed to training , how does the hon. Gentleman explain the letter from the Merseyside TEC to Hexagon Community Ltd. in my constituency , telling it that output-related funding is to be cut by 25 per cent . |
| 22 | What do you call it that tall cylinder thing ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Why is it that bogus applicants , and even genuine asylum seekers , are given housing when they claim to have no alternative accommodation ? |
| 25 | Why is it that clinical usefulness of colonic pressure measurements remains elusive ? |
| 26 | Comedy : ‘ It that old saying … there 's a thin line between comedy and tragedy . |
| 27 | Is it that different people are turned on by radically different things , and that many people get some enjoyment from performing routine and apparently undemanding jobs ? |
| 28 | Er , oh yes well I think it , I think bearing in mind the size of the hotels , I think probably it would be a help if there was something sort of decided , but I , I know , I 'm , I 'm a wee bit sort of , possibly like yourself , er I might order something now and then not look forward to it that particular night |
| 29 | Is it that silly cow in the office ? |
| 30 | There are verses and choruses and chick backing vocals and a big Chris Hughes production to give it that radio-friendly oomph . |