Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [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 | Termite fishing is not as simple or straightforward as it sounds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But like those marriages , it should at least be fast and exciting while it lasts . |
| 21 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 22 | The French Government 's response , as swift and dramatic as it turned out to be highly risky , was to call its own referendum . |
| 23 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 24 | More weed and a seed quickly becomes established in cracks on the asphalt In future years even willow trees will be in a foothold to these doomed power stations stands firm and proud as it slips and silently into decay |
| 25 | I mean , it will be , perhaps where they try and place the mortgage for you but erm I w I bet you they wo n't recommend anything but Legal and General when it comes to actually , you know , covering your mortgage . |
| 26 | If Sunset Beach , Banzai Pipeline , and Waimea Bay are the holy trinity of the thirty-odd North Shore breaks , Waimea is the Father , the holy of holies : slow to rise , but majestic and terrible when it does . |
| 27 | The floor was paved with marble flagstones , black and white so it looked like a chessboard , and on this had been laid the thickest rugs from Persia , India and Turkey . |
| 28 | The Procurator-General , however , on Jan. 10 declared this agreement null and void because it contravened an October 1989 ruling of the federal court in Brasília [ see p. 37292 ] . |
| 29 | The flesh turns spongy and tender as it cooks ; tastes like a cross between a cucumber and courgette . |
| 30 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |