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

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1 Is it complete and whole ?
2 So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't .
3 It is deeply offensive , some people find it wrong-headed and ill-informed .
4 It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid .
5 The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it .
6 What was it German and French ?
7 Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that .
8 Carefully removing the long pane of glass they had loosened from the skylight frame , the two men lifted it clear and Larsen propped it against his knees .
9 They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later .
10 Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’
11 The place was full of rumours and gloomy talk , most of it ignorant and ill-informed .
12 Because they are highlighted , so too is the gender specificity of the body and the bodily experience — the constructions of the body that go to make it male or female .
13 Was it male or female ?
14 Is it male or female ?
15 I shall not go on being hard on the Labour party , because I think it natural and right that there should be different views on Europe .
16 The point for Kojak will not be the relevance of the information , nor the nature of it , but merely that he has it and others do n't — that 's what makes it valuable and Kojak a computer stud .
17 Crush a sugar lump and add it to the brandy in which the raisins were soaked ; warm the mixture , set it alight and drizzle it over the pudding just before bringing to table .
18 ours is really cheap is it Aust is it Australian or Bulgarian or something .
19 Mr. Malone claimed that to be ‘ precisely what the government is doing — getting it patient and doctor led ’ , with reforms seeing ‘ services being delivered at recognised costs ’ .
20 Is it soft and prey to pest and disease ?
21 ‘ The remit was to make it brighter and newsier , to appeal to as many employees as possible at all levels , ’ says Jones , the editorial manager .
22 If you 're buying a Black & Decker power tool from B&Q , Do It All or Great Mills , you will notice that they are running a special promotion at the moment — buy one of seven selected power tools , or a WM536 Workmate , and you can get a book of vouchers worth £50 , to save money on various d-i-y products .
23 Without wading through it all and things are moving on
24 Is it primordial or fusion generated ? ’
25 Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people .
26 Ital , was it Italian or Mediterranean ?
27 As MP for Derby from 1868 to 1880 Plimsoll had for years attacked the shipowning interest and the government which supported it hip and thigh on the unnecessary loss of life and property at sea , attracting great publicity in 1875 by being ordered to retire from the House of Commons following a particularly violent denunciation of their callous and self-interested behaviour .
28 Lord Byron and Wagner are among those who found it irresistible and Hans Christian Anderson named its bay the ‘ Bay of Fairy Tales ’ .
29 Nor is it self-justifying and self-sustaining .
30 He dreamed of it and of himself catching it ; imagining it lunging and threshing as he played it and tussled to land it .
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