Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek . |
| 2 | The PC Wayplanner is economical and flexible since it runs on ordinary IBM-type personal computers . |
| 3 | His shaggy , walrus moustache was deeper coloured , streaky , with irony grey still in it and it was brown and sodden where it dipped into his own , special , pint-size mug which had the word ‘ Father ’ executed on it in rosebuds . |
| 4 | It 's lighter and funnier than it sounds , but this was no gentle role . |
| 5 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 6 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 7 | Termite fishing is not as simple or straightforward as it sounds . |
| 8 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
| 9 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 10 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 11 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 12 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 13 | The second revised ending though gives Estella a complete character change and seems to leave everything a bit too perfect and predictable as it ends more like a ‘ Mills and Boon ’ love story with |
| 14 | In 1561 he received a royal dispensation to be absent from his Durham prebend to finalize a map of England ‘ both fairer and more perfect and truer than it hath been hitherto ’ . |
| 15 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 16 | You can help this natural process by using friction to remove the top layer of dead cells , making the skin look clearer and fresher because it enables the surface to reflect the light . |
| 17 | Previously frozen meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't recook anything more than twice . |
| 18 | Previously frozen uncooked meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't re-cook anything more than twice . |
| 19 | It would droop lower and lower until it rested on her knees , then she would clasp her knees with both hands and rock herself , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , moaning , her face hidden in her skid . |
| 20 | The types have also been used to describe processes such as denominationalisation , in which a sect becomes less inward-looking and world-rejecting as it accommodates to the rest of society . |
| 21 | Depressed and bewildered because it had inexplicably impaired his ability to think and concentrate , he soon guessed that his paralysis and clumsiness would make him always dependent on a wheelchair . |
| 22 | How insulting Delia Cope is , obviously she feels too high and mighty to read Spare Rib because it 's become less entertaining , uninteresting , uninformative and boring because it covers Black women 's issues . |
| 23 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 24 | The offence this may cause is attributed to the fact that it ‘ crosses the line between private and public since it makes available … some sexual act of a private kind … for a voyeuristic interest ’ . |
| 25 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 26 | Why was it that this man was such a pleasant and knowledgeable companion , and yet so hard and ruthless when it came to getting his own way ? |
| 27 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 28 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 29 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 30 | But like those marriages , it should at least be fast and exciting while it lasts . |