Example sentences of "it [adj] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Over the last fifteen years , successive governments have taken the view that the best way to preserve great houses is to make it possible for their traditional owners to maintain them .
2 ‘ So I 'll worry about that when I 'm thirty , ’ Ruth retorted , hitching up her bikini-top before loosening her long jet hair from a silk bandeau and shaking it free around her golden shoulders .
3 May I make it clear to my hon. Friend that this is a document that the Labour party simply could not write , because the principle of being critical of the producer is anathema to a party that is totally in thrall to the producers ?
4 ‘ So , in the romantic setting of Bettystown beach , you reluctantly made it clear to your fair companion that it was goodbye and thank you .
5 This amendment permits preparers of financial statements , where they consider it appropriate in their particular circumstances , to use the same recognition criteria for the tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits as in accounting for the obligations to provide those benefits .
6 Paragraph 32A permits preparers of financial statements , where they consider it appropriate in their particular circumstances , to use the same recognition criteria for the deferred tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits as in accounting for the obligations to provide those benefits .
7 Future historians would in all likelihood use the same data to help answer entirely different questions were it accessible in its original form .
8 You want to see it safe in its new quarters . ’
9 But Senna 's renowned diffidence towards fellow drivers could make it tough for his British team mate , as Hill diplomatically acknowledged .
10 While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims .
11 Hayek thus seems open to the criticism that he skews his account of moral and social development in order to render it harmonious with his ideological preference for a particular conception of liberty .
12 He closed his eyes as he set it down on its place , flattening it open under his left hand , and laid the index finger of his right hand upon the exposed page .
13 This information is increasingly becoming of local nature , C C T and L M S make it difficult for our national research department to deal with local issues .
14 Is it relevant to our literary tradition , our aesthetic sense , our social and psychological concerns ?
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