Example sentences of "it [adj] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 2 | Whatever advantages there may be to the shareholders in the adoption of one or other of these goals as the object of directors ' duties , liability rules , as will be shown in more detail in section II , are too unsophisticated a control technique to make it possible in practice to discriminate between them . |
| 3 | No doubt he 'll get it right in time for his second edition ; if there is one . |
| 4 | You do n't think about anything else apart from getting it right in front of the cameras . ’ |
| 5 | The American government owns one-third of the nation 's land , much of it rich in resources . |
| 6 | Centuries ago the birds themselves chose Low Island as a sanctuary and the droppings over the years made it rich in guano — a fertiliser . |
| 7 | If Leland had gone there , he might well have described the eastern Weald as he did the Forest of Dean : ‘ more fruitful of wood and grass than corn ’ with ‘ many iron mines and forges ’ ; yet although he judged it self-sufficient in corn , Dean was very much poorer than the Weald . |
| 8 | If we get it wrong in year two , it will be even more wrong in year three , because the distribution is n't going to alter dramatically in our favour , so if there is under-funding in ninety four , ninety five that we manage , it will present itself as a larger problem in ninety five , six , and an even larger problem in ninety s six , seven , so that needs to be borne in mind . |
| 9 | While Bush welcomed Yeltsin 's visit he made it clear in public remarks that relations with the new Russian leader would not be allowed to undermine " official relations " with Gorbachev . |
| 10 | Last August Australia sent three naval ships to the Gulf ; Bob Hawke , the prime minister , made it clear in December that they would be put under American operational control and could well see combat . |
| 11 | Mr Fyodorov made it clear in Moscow on Thursday that Russia was desperate for the West 's help , but he also vowed to press ahead with reform with or without G7 financial assistance . |
| 12 | Innocent was adamant that Lupold was unacceptable and he made it clear in June 1205 , at first secretly and later publicly , that Philip would have to drop Lupold as negotiator . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal made it clear in Janata Bank v Ahmed ( 1981 ) that this is certainly a possibility . |
| 14 | Is it different in Britain ? ’ |
| 15 | Nor is it different in terms of another relation between cause and effect to which we shall come , or any relation between causal circumstance and effect . |
| 16 | One complication that we see raised with Samson Agonistes , is that a text 's success in fulfilling the conditions of its chosen genre , in this case classical tragedy , may help to render it unsuccessful in terms of the way it was originally envisaged as intervening aethestically in its contemporary history . |
| 17 | The French referee awarded a dubious penalty to make it 1–1 in Germany , and then dismissed Wednesday goalscorer Hirst after Kaiserslautern defender Marco Haber dramatically fell to the ground after the players brushed together . |
| 18 | The effect of the section on this first analysis is , therefore , despite its mandatory language , to give the directors a discretion to act in the interests of the employees where they consider it appropriate in preference to those of the shareholders ; they do not have a practicably enforceable obligation to further employee interests . |
| 19 | I did n't think it appropriate in front of Sarah . ’ |
| 20 | Without such powers , the SIB is unable to create a climate of fear in the financial markets ; and without that , it will find it impossible in practice to control the SROs . |
| 21 | The task is not one of excusing behaviour or of attributing condemnation to it — only one of rendering it explicable in terms of a revealed social order . |
| 22 | They always found it natural in government . |
| 23 | Such a voice assignment for a man , a god no less , might raise some eyebrows today , but was it exceptional in France in 1663 ? |
| 24 | There are at least two special features of Senegal 's political inheritance which make it unique in Africa . |
| 25 | As with the other two scales of population redistribution surveyed above , the distinction between the inner and outer parts of individual cities and towns in terms of their inhabitants ' relative prosperity is not new , nor is it unique in Britain ( Herbert , 1972 ) . |
| 26 | Eataine 's control of the straits of Lothern makes it unique in Ulthuan because it straddles both the Inner and Outer Kingdoms . |
| 27 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
| 28 | We had this one you see put together and it looked quite nice , it all in reds |
| 29 | And to look at the colourful display of begonias , geraniums and fuchsias set against the trees and shrubs , the unusual rockery plants , the miniature acres in their raised beds , linked pools and waterfall , emptying into a small bog garden , and the greenhouse brimming with plants raised from cuttings and seed , you would think the Doughtys spend hours every day keeping it all in trim . |
| 30 | gets a fifty pence but she do n't like a fifty pence , she likes it all in change . |