Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a hired car , a motorhome or even on horseback , America is the place for British visitors to go it alone . |
| 2 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | This sort of conditioned need makes it very difficult for the horse to be taken out for the day , and makes it completely unsuitable for a day of hard work . |
| 4 | Whether as ratepayers or as employers the farmers who ran the majority of rural councils found it more advantageous to provide tied housing for farm workers and build the minimum number of local authority homes . |
| 5 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 6 | One interesting feature of this discovery seems to me that it 's been a combination of different individuals approaching it almost laterally , in a sense , because you 're not an astronomer , particularly , are you ? |
| 7 | The close association between the visual and the cultural may explain the reluctance of some teachers to give it much attention . |
| 8 | Veterans of this procedure describe it as ‘ more hassle than it 's worth ’ and ‘ a complete waste of time ’ . |
| 9 | Any judge faced with cases of this type found it very difficult because whatever the decision , somebody was going to be grievously hurt . |
| 10 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 11 | Conflicting interpretations of this move saw it either as a sign that the armed forces were no longer capable of confronting internal subversion , or as an astute move aimed at allowing the guerrillas to save face and disarm before taking up seats in the Constitutional Assembly . |
| 12 | Everyone who subsequently learned of this action condemned it as utterly stupid and irresponsible , but perhaps such criticism may be tempered by the fact that the man was in a deep state of shock . |
| 13 | 1 What area of paper would be needed to stick on the outside of this box to cover it completely ? |
| 14 | A positive approach to study of this nature makes it more interesting and provides a degree of excitement . |
| 15 | Aurab Yakobashvili , deputy minister of science , says that the lack of such coordination makes it more difficult for the government to plan for the future of Russian science . |
| 16 | Extensive remains of the foundations of such temples make it relatively easy to establish their plan , but reconstruction of the superstructure is more speculative as almost all the walls and trabeation have disappeared . |
| 17 | Proponents of this view contend that it is the intensity of social deprivation and its institutionalization in centralized state policies , production processes , and social attitudes that constitute a sufficiently novel form of structured dependence to render it qualitatively different from reliance by elderly people on Poor Law , charity , or family in the past . |
| 18 | Given that part of the rationale behind the ACDP is the devolution of responsibility to colleges , one could make the case that the specialist nature of these courses makes it very desirable that colleges should undertake the main part of the development work , in partnership with the Council and the commercial organisations served by the course . |
| 19 | The economic stresses of our time and the pressures of international competition make it more necessary than ever before that Britain 's work-force should possess the skills and attitudes , and display the understanding , the enterprise and adaptability that the pervasive impact of technological advance will increasingly demand . |
| 20 | On the other hand , there are a lot of women who do n't command high salaries but who still want to work , yet to pay for childcare out of taxed income makes it economically impossible . |
| 21 | The hapless mammal is left with a pair of savage chelae pinching it tight , while the crab makes its escape . |
| 22 | And , ironically again , the increasing specialization of Greek scholarship made it increasingly more problematic for German writers to draw on Greek literature and its topoi as wholeheartedly as they once had . |
| 23 | ( i ) Proponents of probabilistic analyses have it that two events can be cause and effect if the presence of the first raised the probability of the second from 0 to only 01 , or of course less . |
| 24 | The extent of unpredictable change makes it very hard for Mr Kinnock to plan his Shadow Cabinet reshuffle in advance of the election results . |
| 25 | The massive destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes it very difficult to justify them as ‘ effective ’ weapons in this sense . |
| 26 | Superb it is too with a long list of discerning enthusiasts ordering it regularly . |
| 27 | Well did the Book of Common prayer put it succinctly when it spoke of the relationship between us and God : ‘ Whose service is perfect freedom ’ . |
| 28 | The performance of modern gliders makes it much easier and more likely for a pilot to fly himself into a potential death trap unless he uses his imagination or has already learned to have a healthy respect for the elements . |
| 29 | A shoal of young roach approached it unawares , sensed its presence and immediately closed ranks — safety in numbers — before darting off . |
| 30 | But the public took to this comedy of two sisters going it alone while their husbands are in prison , and now it is watched by an estimated 12m viewers . |