Example sentences of "it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this maxim seems especially appropriate for the seed trade , in spite of it insatiable appetite for novelty . |
| 2 | She calls it corrective training . |
| 3 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 4 | That 's the important phrase , and if you find it 's easier to keep it mobile if you 've taken some paracetamol or aspirin , then by all means do that . |
| 5 | Having discovered which it is , say it up-to-time at normal speed . |
| 6 | Kisses , hugs , cuddles ( for very young children ) , pat on the back , words of praise ( 'great ! ' ) and encouragement ( 'you 're doing fine ; keep it up' ) . |
| 7 | This was a function of the domanial estate-structure ( sometimes known to English-speaking historians as the manorial system ) , that is of a central directly-farmed agricultural unit , having peasant-tenements grouped around it and owing labour-services on it , and more distant tenements associated with it owing other types of dues and services . |
| 8 | But frankly I find it bloody embarrassing ! ’ |
| 9 | This time in three weeks it will all be over , we 'll all be sat there thinking well was it bloody worth it , all that hard work money and rushing about , is it worth it ? |
| 10 | Oh it were I play a bloody tune on it bloody snake charmer |
| 11 | That 's a about a in n it bloody hell ! |
| 12 | It was only tiny but it bloody talk ! |
| 13 | Rage , part of it self-directed because she had temporarily forgotten it too , made her voice shake . |
| 14 | The huge proportions of the main rooms made it unsuitable for conversion into houses , as did the flat-roofed additions — albeit designed with some care . |
| 15 | As allopurinol did not inhibit the growth of L. casei nor interfere with the growth of experimental tumours , nor did it appear to have any other properties which made it unsuitable , it received further investigation in man . |
| 16 | It does , however , have some properties which are less well understood , and which , in the view of some data analysts , can make it unsuitable for analysing some contingency tables . |
| 17 | She had made no reference to Joan 's first visit to the Hall , considering it unsuitable to combine such a letter with practicalities . |
| 18 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 19 | Like Unix , it started life as a development environment , and like Unix , it had intrinsic features that made it unsuitable as a production operating system . |
| 20 | The essential feature of the judicial process which makes it unsuitable to deal with polycentric problems is its bipolar and adversary nature . |
| 21 | Now , however , the unfortunate residents of Mer have learned that their village is to be the site of a huge new quarry which would clearly make it unsuitable for exploitation as a centre of tourism . |
| 22 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 23 | Rue is an example of a common , well-known garden herb , with a long history of use , yet with properties that make it unsuitable for general use by the layman . |
| 24 | The natural history of the disease also makes it unsuitable for screening by imaging techniques : a normal scan now is no guarantee of a normal heart in the future . |
| 25 | The quality of the printing is very high although the restricted paper width makes it unsuitable for wordprocessing and other serious uses . |
| 26 | The sides are made of contrastingly coloured elasticated nylon with no foam fitted , the lack of kidney protection making it unsuitable for use in canoe polo . |
| 27 | Etruria had been the world 's most up-to-date factory in the eighteenth century and mining subsidence and the encroachment of other industry had made it unsuitable for modern development . |
| 28 | The buyer found it unsuitable for making into dresses . |
| 29 | Organisers said the display was amusing but warned that some people might consider it unsuitable for young children . |
| 30 | I spelt it wrong that 's why I spelt it Spanish Nouveau riche either . |