Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as being truly Scottish it needs to have strong international links . |
| 2 | He refused to comment on Pittencrieff 's intentions for its recently-acquired 16.6 per cent stake in Aberdeen Petroleum , but said Pittencrieff had made it clear it wanted to see rationalisation among the smaller oil companies . |
| 3 | The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy . |
| 4 | So if it tastes edible it gets eaten . |
| 5 | And the harder we try to recall it , the more elusive it seems to become . |
| 6 | The company , founded by Mrs Cooper 's great grandfather Robert Richardson , soon began to specialise in clock making and became so popular it had to set up a separate factory at Robert Street . |
| 7 | In one way the length of the history was a good thing as I have benefited in the end from the latest surgical techniques available in London , and although I still have to be careful it has made a tremendous difference to my life . |
| 8 | Mine 's gone whacky it 's gone stupid and spotty and |
| 9 | I am afraid it has met with a cool response from our colleagues , and in view of this , I am sorry to say that we will not be taking up your offer to publish . |
| 10 | The British-born star said yesterday : ‘ I am afraid it has come back . |
| 11 | Now I think , er and I 'm sure that Mrs will , I 've I 've got other information as well , that we could , I , I , I 'd like to recommend that we had an on going petition which could be in Welfare Rights , the Town Hall , The Libraries , but there 's no , I do n't think there 's an opposition to such a thing , whereby we ask for a P D S A clinic in Harlow , I 'm sure there 's room round where they were sit , sited before , and I do n't know , you know , I 'd like to know what Mrs 's thinks , also I 've got information er , a , following lots of phone calls erm there is an organisation called The Blue Cross , they have a clinic in Victoria and they 're , they have a head office in Oxford and they will help if they know the name of the vet and have the invoice and I 'm afraid it 's tested , but they will help pensioner 's and other low paid people to meet there bill 's , so that 's another outcome , while were doing the petition . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , we have so many robbers here , ’ he started sympathetically , ‘ and once the money is taken , I 'm afraid it 's gone . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’ |
| 14 | I know it 's just laid down as as sheet as to what you 're supposed to put down and all sorts but I ca n't remember exactly how detailed it 's got ta be . |
| 15 | Although the Challenge is only a year old it has established itself as the biggest single charity fund raising event in the region . |
| 16 | I conclude from that that the technical information on on all the sectors is at best patchy , erm and where it 's comprehensive it 's come from people who are advocating a particular development proposal . |
| 17 | Zack was relieved it had ended without blows . |
| 18 | It was remarkable how unsafe it had felt walking through the forest like this . |
| 19 | ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ ends more hopefully , despite Gatsby 's death , with the thought that no matter how impossible it seems to reach something , you must keep on trying to get it and maybe one day you will . |
| 20 | However , the further that one moves away from anything resembling a ‘ judicial ’ or ‘ quasi-judicial ’ situation , the more appropriate it becomes to use the term fairness rather than natural justice . |
| 21 | ‘ But to be honest it has broken my heart to leave Bangor . |
| 22 | But how excruciatingly real it had seemed . |
| 23 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 24 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |
| 25 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm glad it 's happened , ’ Matilda said . |
| 27 | Everybody said how quick it 'd gone . |
| 28 | It 's unfortunate it had to happen . |
| 29 | However , during the past year or two , as a result of the cuts in funds available to the polytechnic at large it has found itself , like other RMCs , under increasing financial pressure . |
| 30 | This is the practice that has been followed for many years and by and large it has worked . |