Example sentences of "it with an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has said nothing about the need to end the fiction of self regulation and to replace it with an efficient and effective and cheaper direct regulation . |
| 2 | But the North 's recent comb-out of traditional industries leaves it with an imbalanced legacy and serious economic handicap . |
| 3 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 4 | Between these two ridges the fire of the sunset falls along the trough of the sea , dyeing it with an awful but glorious light , the intense and lurid splendour which burns like gold , and bathes like blood . |
| 5 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 6 | Another method is to insert and inflate a tube , then fill the space around it with an insulating mortar , before deflating the tube and withdrawing it once this has dried . |
| 7 | Most people agreed that Pike had been out the night before working on it with an industrial fan . |
| 8 | At its best the structure of one of his perorations follows this pattern : he begins with a general statement and summarises it with an accessible example ; then he moves to a narrower statement and concludes with a final example taken from everyday life . |
| 9 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 10 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 11 | Or that avocado is the only fat-containing fruit and that when you order it with an oily dressing , or with prawns in mayonnaise dressing , you are ordering one of the most fattening first courses of all ? |
| 12 | Most reckon that , with the holding in Hanson 's balance sheet as a fixed asset , Lord Hanson will probably hold on for maybe 18 months before placing it with an alternative international predator . |
| 13 | With a sense of destiny , I leaned forward and tapped upon it with an invisible finger . |
| 14 | Then after a pause he took a letter at random from the middle of the stack ; he stared at it with an unfocused , an uncommitted eye . |
| 15 | He said it with an odd , teasing leer , as though he were asking for something very difficult , and when the boy spoke he sounded awkward , his voice high and polite . |
| 16 | He hated illness , hated it with an inner anger as though sickness were a devil attacking his life , his plans for his future , his energy . |
| 17 | The alternative , of close integration of the railways into the central machinery of the state , has not proved suitable for the efficient conduct of complex productive activities ; a Spanish experiment with direct ministerial control during the late 1950s ( RENFE 1957m : vii , ix ; IBRD 1963 : 192–3 ) was shortlived , and the disadvantages of direct control have recently led the Italian government , for example , to remove the state railway from under the direct control of the transport ministry and endow it with an autonomous corporate structure ( Railway Gazette International , December 1985 : 926–7 ) . |
| 18 | It defined Spanish patriotism , endowing it with an enduring myth . |
| 19 | But , from the standpoint of current usage in other social sciences and the philosophy of science , Realism aspires to be a Positive science and Behaviouralism is a particular version of it with an austere view of what is testable . |
| 20 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 21 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 22 | Stok quoted it with an excellent Highland accent , ‘ Robert Burns , ’ pronounced Stok , ’ ‘ To a Mouse ’ . ’ |
| 23 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
| 24 | Eventually he opened one for us by hitting it with an old chisel . |
| 25 | She fetched a cardboard box left over from her last shopping trip , lined it with an old towel and put the tiny creatures in . |
| 26 | An old , glazed porcelain sink can be transformed into a water garden by coating it with an artificial stone mixture . |
| 27 | He grew it , merged it with an American company , then a few years later , having developed a multimillion pound empire , cast around for a new challenge . |
| 28 | I made it a condition that I 'd only do it with an American choreographer , and my assistant is American , too . ’ |
| 29 | We share it with an unwelcome assortment of fellow travellers . |
| 30 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |