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

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31 Women and Beauty in April nineteen forty three wrote - there is a special kind of beauty preparation that ca n't be bought in a single shop in the world because you must make it yourself from spirit , heart and simple courage and you make it fresh each day .
32 It is necessary to have a lot of different stages , so that you 're coming to it fresh each time , and I used to find when I was younger that that would mean putting it aside for several days .
33 Ai n't it funny this time of year , the garden always looks bare and scruffy and
34 ‘ For this reason , ’ said Mr Bell , ‘ although we have maintained current levels of reversionary bonus rates for our life assurance policies , we have thought it appropriate this year to reduce slightly the interim reversionary bonus and bonus growth rates in respect of our pension business in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland . ’
35 One does not usually bother to mention it , but we shall make it explicit this time .
36 The coffee came and with it three more glasses of tequila .
37 Is n't it cold this morning ?
38 Oh , was n't it cold this morning ?
39 It did not in his opinion amount to murder , nor was it likely that Field would be convicted .
40 If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months .
41 The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy .
42 would you feel you 'd not want to do it all that time then Belinda ?
43 I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it .
44 I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise .
45 see how I 've saved it all those years .
46 And why had she secretly kept it all those years , when she did n't want it ?
47 On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all .
48 They had kept it all these years .
49 And how difficult is it all these Midland local Midland matches because the Midlands teams are finding it hard to get near the top .
50 I 'll pack it all this afternoon if you like .
51 I was gon na bring some back and I thought no I wo n't cos I 'll only end up eating it all this week and I 've got three weeks left to get really in shape for Christmas , you know , before I slob out and eat
52 There was no need to reiterate it all this morning , and it might be unwise to force Gesner into losing any further face .
53 Goodness there 's a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping er you got to go we finished all the shop and that 's it .
54 God its a great , a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping erm , just got to go in Smiths and , we , I
55 That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time !
56 And you 've been eating it all this time !
57 Erm from a personal point of view , I do n't really find it credible that planking down fourteen hundred houses in the Vale of York could be said to improve landscape quality .
58 I know , but it 's too dear , I looked at that and thought it would be nice to have your name on a brick , but to me twenty pound , if they made it cheaper more people would buy it would n't they ? , what building is it ?
59 If you find next time you need that remedy that it again does not work , put another mark on the bottle and give it one more chance before discarding the whole bottle .
60 Madeleine gave it one more glance , then shooed Thérèse out in front of her .
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