Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North American mink , he says , has fitted into the niche which would otherwise have been occupied by the European mink had it ever reached Britain . |
| 2 | The political élite paid it more attention than it did radio , even though the latter had a greater importance insofar as size of audience was concerned . |
| 3 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the 1980 Act makes it abundantly clear that , though districts are the development control authorities , they must direct their decisions to the implementation of the structure plan for their area . |
| 5 | This , plus strengthening of the laws against vagrancy in 1714 , 1740 and 1744 , meant that many of the lower orders found it more difficult and more risky to move over long distances . |
| 6 | " German newspaper producers already use between 50 and 60 per cent recycled paper in production , and they do not have the technical means to increase it overnight . |
| 7 | Michael Walsh was interested as an experienced teacher who had the confidence to experiment with the video and the professional security to use it effectively . |
| 8 | If it is your first work of fiction of any great length , I think you are doing the right thing putting it forward for appraisal by the Eastern Arts Board , you are lucky in your part of the country to have this . |
| 9 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 10 | These included Jespersen 's Primer of the English Language , a book I had not opened since my student days , and then only to shut it immediately , never in the intervening years opening it again . |
| 11 | This gives a stocking length of 10″ ( 25cm ) , and placing them in a 20 gallon tank ( 90l ) you have , according to the aforementioned ratio stocked it correctly . |
| 12 | A stiff breeze on the outward leg made it hard going over the longer half of the race , resulting in slower times . |
| 13 | Security was to be bought — at least sometimes — but not for free men and women but , as the English terminology put it clearly , for ‘ servants ’ — whose liberty was strictly constrained : domestic servants , ‘ railway servants ’ , even ‘ civil servants ’ ( or public officials ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I was very pleased when it rained , as Silver Fling is best really at five and a half furlongs , and the easier ground made it more of a test ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Also , the high winds make it more dangerous when passing high-sided vehicles . |
| 16 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 17 | The steep hillsides made it more difficult to hide and transport cattle , and after the establishment of coffee plantations and gardens in the 1840s the crime must have become more difficult to carry out profitably . |
| 18 | Every so often the light wind teased it away from her ears , revealing her favourite earrings as they swung against its soft darkness . |
| 19 | I never could decide who was right , socialists — even revolutionaries — or the arch-capitalists , and it seemed we 'd never find out in Britain because whatever way the popular vote went it never really brought any real change of direction . |
| 20 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 21 | Does not the hon. Gentleman think it wrong in principle that elected councillors should be paid such salaries on these corporation bodies ? |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman has it precisely wrong on European policy . |
| 23 | The inclement nature of the British weather makes it either easier to stay put , or alternatively , if absolutely necessary , don galoshes , raincoat and ‘ souwester ’ . |
| 24 | Would my honourable friend be able to explain why it was that in the run up to negotiations with respect to the question of increase in the number of seats er , the German government made it quite clear that they were not interested or did n't want to have the additional number of seats and then subsequently , for reasons that have never been fully explained , we then found that er they had an additional eighteen . |
| 25 | ‘ The German soldiers put it there . |
| 26 | The Adjutant observed drily that the Foreign Secretary made it very evident in his missive . |
| 27 | However , the Foreign Office said it warmly welcomed and supported the US move to step up its contribution . |
| 28 | If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof . |
| 29 | The toilets and bathrooms and showers were at the end of the hall on the second floor , and from my window I had a splendid view of the cathedral , whose Gothic , Renaissance and baroque styles mingled perfectly in the dark-rose-and-amber stone to give it almost the appearance of some natural rock formation . |
| 30 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |