Example sentences of "it [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
| 2 | Or is it rather a transgressive reinscription , a demonic perversion of the sacred ? |
| 3 | I find it rather a surprising one but good . |
| 4 | ‘ Is n't it rather a long walk ? ’ |
| 5 | Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little . |
| 6 | But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding . |
| 7 | They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river . |
| 8 | And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you |
| 9 | Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones |
| 10 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 11 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 12 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 13 | Bimbo , his last novel , was a cleverly sustained pastiche of tabloid culture , and the author 's veiled compassion for the eponymous narrator made it all the sharper . |
| 14 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 15 | He 'd do it all the more would he ? |
| 16 | He 'd do it all the more . |
| 17 | If he chucks something on the ground he 'll pick it up and give it to me and he 'll do it all the more . |
| 18 | Exports are one way for America to soften the impact of sluggish demand at home ; the undervalued dollar makes it all the easier , in effect , to import some vitality from Germany and Japan . |
| 19 | A little contempt for military life makes it all the easier … |
| 20 | The incorporation of the French intellectual tradition and the artistic underground made it all the easier to hide the ideological background of the Socialist regime . |
| 21 | It makes it all the sweeter when they fall . |
| 22 | Which made it all the harder to understand why Wilkinson had not begun with Cantona in the side on a summery day that seemed ideally suited to his ball-playing skills . |
| 23 | This made it all the harder for the mother to treat the ailing youngster and she might give up on the treatment for this reason . |
| 24 | It must make it all the harder that this reception has availed so little in the result … still this is n't the end of everything . |
| 25 | In fact probably you 'd move more cos he says yo your instinct is take your feet off I think your instinct would be to jump on it all the harder . |
| 26 | If a weaving yarn is thick and slubby , consider weaving it only every third row . |
| 27 | There is , then , a long-established subcultural reading of Brief Encounter that cuts across its ostensible/mainstream meaning , but does this have any substantive base in the text itself or is it only a collective fantasy , a shared ‘ special thrill ’ ? |
| 28 | But is this a legal or is it only a political right ? |
| 29 | Is it only a temporary ? |
| 30 | Is it only a thirty odd hour week ? |