Example sentences of "it an [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people consider elimination to be a very private bodily function and therefore find it an embarrassing subject to discuss with hospital staff . |
| 2 | Central Grooves was repeated , making at least five ascents now , and hard V ( or is it an easy VI ? ) seems the consensus . |
| 3 | Is it an ordinary digital computer of the sort that 's used in commerce and industry , or is it a special type of computer . |
| 4 | The Wedgwood stand was decorated by Pam Griffith of the Barlaston display team to give it an authentic English look . |
| 5 | Some labelled it an Australian Private Eye , but there was more to it than that . |
| 6 | Though the 440 and 880 personal communicators are twice the price of the Newton — the 440 comes in at $2,000 to $2,800 , the 880 at $3,000 to $3,300 — Eo reckons its use of AT&T 's Hobbit RISC and telecommunications technology give it an important technical edge . |
| 7 | The efficacy of elemental diet treatment in controlling disease activity makes it an important potential alternative to traditional corticosteroid treatment , particularly for children . |
| 8 | On the one hand its ultra-patriotism and Ger-manophobia made it an important driving force behind the campaign for no compromise and total victory ; but against this was the undoubted fact that the most dynamic political leadership and organizing ability to ensure this outcome was provided by Lloyd George , the radical right 's bête noire . |
| 9 | The agency 's own Concorde charters swooping over the Grand National , and personal gifts such as bouquets of flowers for customers have earned it an enthusiastic local following . |
| 10 | Like many great cities , it fostered within it an active turbulent group of middle and lower citizens , with some local nobles among them , and with a strongly anticlerical flavour to it . |
| 11 | That last fact carries with it an unjust overall valuation of student status , eternal or otherwise , and one which Dostoevsky was not prepared to stand by ; which is why ‘ the student ’ becomes Peter Verkhovensky in The Possessed . |
| 12 | Its magnitude is given as 6.6 , but I have always found it an elusive binocular object . |