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

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1 Not surprisingly they may consequently pay it little attention and even discard it altogether .
2 In this form , it then remains , and when the rains return , it instinctively remembers it watery home and there lays its eggs , for the cycle to be repeated .
3 Is it that Socratism and art are not incompatible after all ?
4 How is it that love and hate live so close together within one pulsing heart ?
5 Radio , television and the evening newspaper carried reports of it that day and the morning newspapers carried them next day .
6 The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond .
7 The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century .
8 Certainly the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda saw it that way and his long meditation ‘ The Heights of Machu Picchu ’ had ensured that the ancient city acted as a Mecca for all Latin American writers :
9 Now , you may wonder , along with one of my guests this week , what the point is of having Punch lunches if their proceedings remain private , but we like it that way and , besides , it means that we get some seriously filthy gossip .
10 And there 's always the informality about these course , we 're all addressed on christian name terms , all speakers prefer it that way and of course we like to address you christian name terms when we know you .
11 I 'd like to say that I do sit on T U C youth forum and the G M B have the strongest , most active youth section so let's keep it that way and give our young members all the support and encouragement they deserve .
12 Now you count on that but the next vote then comes in and they 're still not available beds are not available in it , and the next four and the next four so you 'll have , for years you 'll have those out of operation would you like to call it that way and out of production .
13 You can do it that way and it works out a lot cheaper .
14 ( Presenter ) Some do n't perceive it that way and say it could be political suicide for the Conservatives ( Legge )
15 I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them .
16 Oh I 'll do it that way and take a chance .
17 round it that way and that way , but it just stops them in their sleep .
18 or owt owing to me , I says , we 'll do it that way and then you come
19 while you 're still able sort of comfortably to drive and that sort of thing , I mean if you put it that way and you 'll be saying anyway she 's my er she 's my only living
20 Or how is it that faith and uncertainty are automatically associated with each other while knowledge is regarded as certain and therefore different ?
21 We went past it that time and
22 It 's like , we do a bit of it each night and it 's over two weeks .
23 This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be .
24 Give it fifty years and I 'll bet you that the baker and all the rest of the folks , it 'll be coming from a supermarket , but they 'll be delivering stuff that you 've put on your computer .
25 I 've got ta be catched I wo n't actually do it I 'll just come in run a mo just give it complete customers and and help
26 Just gave it some thought , give it some thought and initiative and you 're in !
27 Yeah , he was on it some time and Charles and they 'd put him back on the ward becau when John last saw him , cos he , John was visiting er , used to be having treatment or something at
28 And as a result has awarded it top marks and a prestigious regional Quality Brickwork Award .
29 ‘ I 've lived with it for long enough , but I did n't get away with it this year and I 'm running out of time , ’ said the 26-year-old European champion , who needed a pain-killing injection before the race .
30 It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments .
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