Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balfour would say that Austen Chamberlain should be sent for ; and , according to Birkenhead , Balfour thought that this was ‘ the right course to pursue as it gave the King one other alternative before sending for Ramsay MacDonald ’ . |
| 2 | Ambitious young curators have a different axe to grind and it worked out very well because I did n't produce that much . |
| 3 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 4 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 5 | And one day he shave it off , it took his wife three hours to notice and it took his mum all day to notice |
| 6 | It was the priest who examined the wound after three days to see whether it had healed . |
| 7 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
| 8 | There is some historic evidence to suggest that it included about 800 titles , among which some so important that they have tantalised historians ever since : works by Cicero , Tacitus , the Greek historian Polybius , the playwright Aristophanes etc. , quite possibly in complete versions . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 10 | The Vimy was a heavy machine to handle and it took Jack all his strength to hold her steady . |
| 11 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 12 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 14 | It was the right thing to do because it captured everyone 's imagination . |
| 15 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 16 | Extending the requirement for leave to appeal It was to be hoped that in the context of forthcoming legislation , consideration would be given to extending the requirement for leave to appeal across the board , both because there was no justification for allowing any appeal to proceed if it had no prospect of success and because the present dividing lines between those in which leave was required and those in which it was not , was quite illogical . |
| 17 | The Commission will now issue a " Reasonable Opinion " , giving the government two months to prove that it had complied with EC law . |
| 18 | Early speech recognition systems relied on converting words in a given vocabulary into a pattern stored in the computer and comparing each spoken word to see if it matched . |
| 19 | When provincial committees produced two or even three sets of recommendations , the centre 's longstanding inclination to act as it saw fit returned in full measure . |