Example sentences of "it [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various classes of ordinary business investor are : ( 1 ) A company that has , or has a holding company or subsidiary that has , net assets or a called up share capital of £5,000,000 ( or , if it or a holding company has over 20 members , £500,000 ) ; quoted companies and their subsidiaries are therefore almost always ordinary business investors . |
| 2 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 3 | Either that report or a summary of it or a basic valuation prepared from the same materials is used by the building society for the purposes of section 13 . |
| 4 | It seemed to Alexei as he considered it that a great deal of effort must be required to sustain such a relationship , and he could not imagine how his father could be bothered with it , or how the women could be content . |
| 5 | We regularly take it that a causal circumstance is linked by way of a causal chain or sequence to its effect . |
| 6 | We do indeed have it that a causal circumstance necessitated its effect . |
| 7 | What do we have in mind in taking it that a causal circumstance makes an effect happen ? |
| 8 | How much more likely is it that a professional boxer , for example , would suffer permanent bodily damage , than a kidney donor ? |
| 9 | How was it that a major piece of canal engineering came to be constructed on one of the least profitable stretches of a minor and dilapidated canal , in the heart of rural England , at a time when the prospects for canals were at their gloomiest ? |
| 10 | Legend has it that a real giant terrorised the locals . |
| 11 | So does , it that a new one |
| 12 | Evolution must surely have seen to it that a good proportion of our thoughts are true of the world , and so in some simple sense the mind must perform computations which record the world and direct our behaviour appropriately . |
| 13 | How was it that a limited company made a contract otherwise than in the course of its business ? |
| 14 | Why is it that a specific person has the indefinable ‘ It ’ and another has not ? |
| 15 | How is it that a large cavern with a high roof may be formed underground ? |
| 16 | If we take it that a Conservative defeat is most probable , we assert the subjunctive conditional . |
| 17 | Somewhere in the middle of the fifteenth century , legend has it that a little girl was tending sheep here when a young lady came to play with her . |
| 18 | Their relationship was an oddly comfortable one , with nothing more demonstrative about it than a swift goodnight kiss , or hands joined on a walk in the beautiful countryside around Chastlecombe . |
| 19 | And anyway , I would n't like it if a male author did it with he . |
| 20 | This acceptance of the usual forms of court etiquette was first developed in a particular social environment , and it is important to comply with it if a proper atmosphere is to be established for the action which is to take place . |
| 21 | The place was not a very grand huge château , but it was imposing and romantic nevertheless , with lawned terraces sweeping down to the drive , great old trees around it and a small lake to one side that actually lapped the lower walls . |
| 22 | He would dispose of it and a key item of evidence would be gone for good . |
| 23 | The well had a little wooden roof over it and a simple winding device and there was the rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole . |
| 24 | Hell was a wooden arch with a cloth tunnel behind it and a simple catch holding shut the green eye . |
| 25 | with wa water boiling in it and a wee pot that fitted in the top . |
| 26 | The white sandy beach is typical of this area , with astonishingly pleasant scenery behind it and a warm and inviting summer climate . |
| 27 | The popularity is put down to a good flavour — with its tight creamy head it 's similar to Tetley 's — the lack of any other light bitters in Nicholson 's range that compete with it and a slight price advantage of around five pence . |
| 28 | When he had had his lunch , which he brought with him in the suitcase , a packet of salami sandwiches , a croissant with jam in it and a fruit-and-nut bar , he set off for West End Lane , to the Electricity Board and the Gas Board , to make inquiries about a chimney sweep , and put an advertisement for tenants in a newsagent 's window . |
| 29 | he 's got Kenwood words written on it and a great big diamond on the , at the end |
| 30 | There was a small paved area in front of it and a low wall . |