Example sentences of "it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 62 | ‘ Yes , sometimes you create this illusion for yourself , because you 've been with it a certain number of hours , but it can also go the other way : you might think something 's horrible and then come in the next day and realise it 's actually pretty good . |
| 63 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 64 | Was it a certain gunnery officer 's intention to clear his field of view in Draconian style ? |
| 65 | Is it an annual charge or is it a twelve month payment thing on it , or just an annual charge ? |
| 66 | . Number two then is , is it a continuous function ? |
| 67 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 68 | And you can report that because this baby 's going to need to go to hospital right so those are the three things you do , you raise the room temperature , erm you cuddle the baby close to your own body which should be warm , removing any excess layers , you can then wrap a blanket around yourself and the baby , if you can , give it a warm drink but you , you may , may not be able to do that , you take the baby 's temperature and you seek medical advice right Is that quite clear ? |
| 69 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ Carrie said , though she thought it a strange dress for someone to wear in the daytime . |
| 70 | Of all the ways to commit a murder , is n't it a strange coincidence that Angy was stabbed in the throat , just like she was in the portrait ? ’ |
| 71 | Erm , then I can , well because dividing point eight by , that 'll make it a strange figure |
| 72 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 73 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 74 | But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident . |
| 75 | The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly . |
| 76 | He withdrew from it a rare bound second volume of Palestine Illustrated by François Schotten , published in Paris in 1929 . |
| 77 | Upon it a vast horde of souls were rumbling towards heaven . |
| 78 | Not only was it a vast amount of money for the fledgling state to raise , by many Israeli officials felt passionately that Israel should not begin its life be seeking to extend its reach ad influence through such obvious corruption . |
| 79 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 80 | So we begin to put pressure on the child , and the child reacts because he ca n't appreciate what we 're trying to get across to him , and so we get a sort of stalemate situation , where the teacher , be it a professional teacher or a parent , is pressurizing the child to understand something which appears quite simplistic , and the child is responding quite deadly , because he can not focus , he can not conceptualize , what is to us a very simple concept . |
| 81 | Although there is much good stuff here and I shall undoubtedly find it a useful reference , on putting it down my chief desire was to out and solo something barefoot ! |
| 82 | Is it a useful mutation that helps the race survive ? |
| 83 | Andrew might also consider it a useful opportunity to further his England captaincy claims , for which he has a growing number of supporters — although he expresses no such wish , since his old school-mate , Will Carling , currently holds the job . |
| 84 | Most respondents found it a useful medium for aiding some cosmetic task or other . |
| 85 | The numbers of applications and appeals have risen markedly in recent years , particularly in the retail development sector where developers have found it a useful means of overcoming local authority resistance to particular schemes . |
| 86 | First , because of membership of the EMS , wage-bargainers and price-setters in other countries may take particular notice of the DM exchange rate and inflationary trends ( if any ) in the Federal Republic ; second , over a period of time , wage and price responses in other countries might evolve towards the German norm ; third , it may simply be that in a period when for fundamental social and political reasons the control of inflation came to assume dominance in policy-making , policy-makers found it a useful discipline to conduct their fiscal and monetary affairs in such a way as to stabilise the exchange rate against the DM . |
| 87 | Social historians of the future should find it a useful source when quoting the anti-Reagan lobby . |
| 88 | How to fit specific hilltops into a statistical model is a problem , but the predictability of the pattern would make it a useful tool in evaluating leys . |
| 89 | Researchers in this area are likely to find it a useful entry to the literature , and a source of ideas on research needs . |
| 90 | You may have some if you have any dental fillings ; it is also used as a contact in telephone circuits and its malleability makes it a useful substitute for platinum in jewellery . |