Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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61 On the face of it such legislation seemed unnecessary ; after all , who in America would want to trade with a country like Iran ?
62 Is it standard policy to include facts like that in your research ? ’
63 The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader .
64 252 — 5 ) to which of course the prostitute can indeed testify that it these things appear incompatible — is n't misogyny a kind of hatred , and licentiousness a kind of love , albeit a debased one ? — in reality they go hand in hand .
65 Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River .
66 Do you shout it three times pointing towards Canterbury ?
67 He fires at it three times to try and open it , but without success .
68 Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora .
69 It makes it hard work does n't it ?
70 You could , of course , have the cement , sand and gravel delivered , and hire a mixer , but you would still find it hard work shovelling it all in and out .
71 On the face of it electric traction has many advantages .
72 But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident .
73 I 've had it all day get it going , apart , just from a
74 But , you know , they talk about it all day do n't they ?
75 The silent description of the dark scene seems to hold in all emotion , until it all breaks loose , and the melancholy that drags on throughout the poem is let out .
76 For the discerning holiday makers wanting to get away from it all while enjoying all the luxury conveniences of top class accommodation , the AKTI MYRINA is the perfect choice .
77 How on earth could any programmer keep the general plot and utter weirdness of it all while providing a playable , interesting game ?
78 Why was it all women hated her so , even when they did n't know her ?
79 It all looks polished , but that was only achieved with some difficulty .
80 It all shows does n't it ?
81 You see if I would go back , if I were doing it , to Times Heavy Titling or one of those do it all caps forget that .
82 do that tonight , cos it 'll take it all week to dry !
83 Their friend and spokesman Mark Lucas said yesterday : ‘ Writing it all down has been both painful and enjoyable for both of them .
84 The eyes have it Many women write to us complaining that they have puffy eyes .
85 In the exercise of it many factors have to be considered besides the strength of the case .
86 Rab thought ( the barman ) that it better Winnie went , for a couple more wines .
87 Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine .
88 The Times [ London ] gave it fourteen column inches ; Guardian [ London ] , eight inches ; The Irish Times [ Dublin ] , twenty-four inches ; Sunday News [ Belfast ] , forty-four inches ; and Belfast Telegraph , nil .
89 On the hills that crowded close around it black forest stretched up towards the skyline .
90 It is not a desirable place to paint pictures in , inside the Cuiraing : the silence and the grandeur awes you ; and the sheep above where we stood had an uncomfortable habit of loosening with their feet stones that came with an ominous crash near to us , and some shepherd lads , much less excusable , thought it good fun to threaten to , and likewise to perform , throwing stones near us .
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