Example sentences of "it [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Why is it that content words tend to be preserved and function words omitted ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Why is it that black kids are so amenable to the influences of their peers ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Why was it that other women did n't mind ? |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Why is it that Eastern peoples acquire languages so easily while we in the West make such heavy weather of it ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why is it that bogus applicants , and even genuine asylum seekers , are given housing when they claim to have no alternative accommodation ? |
| 16 | But why is it that Northern towns , like anywhere else , have their monumental civic buildings , public libraries and baths , named after and often founded by the old city fathers , local entrepreneurs , the class enemy ? |
| 17 | Can we take it that elected members will be representing the United Kingdom on that body , but the formal distribution of that representation has not yet been worked out ? |
| 18 | Why was it that bad things always happened when you were feeling happy ? |
| 19 | Is it that English players are not hungry enough ? |
| 20 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 21 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
| 22 | What is it that social anthropologists actually do ? |
| 23 | Once that is understood then the answer to my original question : What is it that social anthropologists actually do ? becomes easier to understand . |
| 24 | If we do n't get it right then developers will be very reluctant to integrate the technology ’ . |
| 25 | If we do n't get it right then developers will be very reluctant to integrate the technology ’ . |
| 26 | New wards and accommodation blocks , laboratories and car-parks have all but masked the original building , whilst within it spacious airy wards , huge staircase halls and corridors have been extensively partitioned and bear no resemblance to their original plan . |
| 27 | Yes , that 's it some odd nights we was on our way home from work , it 's going up to the even when we 're on earlies and and weekends we can go there ca n't we ? |
| 28 | If it is like hell , it is sometimes a cosy sort of hell , snug with the smell of clay , but the work is treacherous , and the machinery has brought with it some new risks . |
| 29 | Since lots of birds have highly conspicuous plumage , the possession of such plumage would seem to carry with it some real advantages . |
| 30 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |