Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Etched into Kinder Scout 's northern flanks , the clough provides pleasant rock-hopping as it twists and turns upwards until you enter a fine , hidden amphitheatre which gives good scrambling up rocky steps . |
| 2 | Most of Ray 's cows were grazing in another field when it happened but those he lost were his most valuable . |
| 3 | I felt fear at this moment but it passed and I was calmed in thought when the sensation passed . |
| 4 | Even depressed Fort William takes on a magnificence from this height as it glitters and reflects the late evening sun . |
| 5 | The Japanese like to negotiate each issue as it arises and there is an assumption that each party is prepared to make substantial accommodations to the other . |
| 6 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 7 | Japan does not have the facilities to produce as much plutonium as it needs and plans to import 153 tonnes of the highly volatile material from Britain and France between 1992 and 2000 . |
| 8 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 9 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 10 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 11 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) An institution shall not be regarded as conducting its business in a prudent manner unless it maintains or , as the case may be , will maintain net assets which , together with other financial resources available to the institution of such nature and amount as are considered appropriate by the Bank , are — ( a ) of an amount which is commensurate with the nature and scale of the institution 's operations ; and ( b ) of an amount and nature sufficient to safeguard the interests of its depositors and potential depositors , having regard to the particular factors mentioned in sub-paragraph ( 3 ) below and any other factors appearing to the Bank to be relevant . |
| 13 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 14 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 15 | The measurements are taken by accelerating the car in low gears at full throttle as it approaches and passes the noise meter . |
| 16 | This is a genuine surgical emergency if it occurs and the unfortunate victim has to be whisked off to hospital . |
| 17 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 18 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 19 | In bays , the tide tends to flow around the bay in one direction as it rises and then reverses as it falls . |
| 20 | ‘ You may stay and catch the ferry at first light when it crosses but that is your decision . ’ |
| 21 | In a series of meetings with employees he explained : ‘ A slimmed down , more agile Wedgwood Group will be much better placed to take advantage of worldwide recovery when it comes and to fight off our increasingly aggressive overseas competitors . |
| 22 | Invariably it is an ineffective communication as it antagonizes and also leaves the subject not knowing whether help would otherwise have been offered spontaneously . |
| 23 | Mr Brazauskas , 60 , was head of Lithuania 's Communist Party when it rebelled and split with Moscow in 1989 . |
| 24 | Do this for three days in succession and you will be able to make up your own mind whether it works or not . |
| 25 | Erm er this o this one is not one single job as it happens but it is the kind of thing that we have come up against before and I 've put them the things together in one so that we do n't identify people really under the circumstances . |
| 26 | This is not always necessary on liquid-based foundation as it dries and will set without leaving any residue . |
| 27 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 28 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |
| 29 | Ron and I take each year as it comes and we always plan for me to run a personal best every season . |
| 30 | Come on Aria , the Mad Axe might be a reasonably cheap guitar but it looks and sounds upmarket and it deserves a more upmarket name . |