Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | That pleased the smart set , but secretly the old money decided it was a bit tacky . |
| 2 | Since its submission for debate at the end of May the plan , and especially the swingeing price rises it entailed , had aroused fierce opposition among politicians and the public . |
| 3 | But Coleridge soon discovered the shortcomings of Clevedon , and especially the inconvenient distance separating it from his literary friends in Bristol , and from the indispensable Bristol City Library . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , naturally the old ones remember it . |
| 5 | Perhaps the hooded crows thought it was a game , perhaps they misjudged his skill and speed . |
| 6 | Well if the definition of salinity is the amount of salt dissolved in a particular volume of water , perhaps the logical way to do it is simply to take a volume of water and evaporate it and weigh the amount of salt that 's left so that might be the simplest approach . |
| 7 | ‘ Why do all the other flats take it so placidly for Heaven 's sake ? ’ |
| 8 | This warm current generally flows around about Christmas time ( which in the southern hemisphere of course is in summer ) and so the local people call it ‘ El Niño ’ , which means ‘ the little child ’ , referring to the Christ child . |
| 9 | That boosted its price substantially but it could do things that no other printer was capable of so the added value made it well worth it . |
| 10 | Only the General Election stopped it going through . |
| 11 | These were only the official words setting it out in writing . |
| 12 | I WAS disgusted to read that the inquiry into the Windsor Castle fire produced only a one-and-a-half-page report writing it all off as an unfortunate accident . |
| 13 | The letters must have been at least two feet in height and to do this job from a ladder , with only a young apprentice to hold it steady was quite a feat . |
| 14 | In both cases the behaviour is not completely predictable , but observation for only a short time makes it so for all subsequent times . ) |
| 15 | THERE are renewed fears that the scenically spectacular Cairngorm estate of Mar Lodge — which contains Ben MacDhui , the second highest mountain in Britain — might be lost to the nation following a failure by conservation bodies to put together a financial package to buy it . |
| 16 | Thus the new State finds it necessary to accommodate precisely those processes which were one of the sources of the original movement of national liberation . |
| 17 | Tonight the Foreign Office insisted it was doing everything in its power to secure Paul Ride 's early release . |
| 18 | and that is , that would be exactly the right way to do it ! |
| 19 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
| 20 | So i it is just a sore thumb exercise it it 's er |
| 21 | It 's just a good way to mark it . |
| 22 | She 's a little preoccupied at the moment , just an ordinary person finding it hard to deal with the madness that selling vast amounts of records brings . |
| 23 | I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really . |
| 24 | He pushed aside the civilian Junta using it only to give decent sanction to new promotions . |
| 25 | Dr Prendergast , of Birmingham Children 's Hospital , said : ‘ Once the epileptic label sticks it often does n't get reviewed and leads to people not being able to do certain jobs or drive . |
| 26 | Ghost of the family that had failed it and sold it , still a stubborn Protestantism held it aloof from usefulness to any new owner . |
| 27 | Carr : Well , I think a ‘ Keener ’ price is probably the wrong way to put it . |
| 28 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 29 | It is also a good idea to give it some toys . |
| 30 | But these were rare occurrences , and when later a longstanding relationship developed it brought frustration and irritation rather than contentment . ’ |