Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singer Sebastien Bach , at No. 22 with Youth Gone Wild , says : ‘ I wanted kids to know it was n't just junkies or gays who get that disease . |
| 2 | Successful farming in DRAs demands very high levels of skill but an even smaller proportion of farmers in such areas appear to have received any formal training ; opportunities to receive it are considerably less than in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 3 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 4 | His finding was that the capacity to experience it was much more highly developed in wives who had indulged in intercourse before marriage than in those who had remained chaste — in short there was much to be said against chastity . |
| 5 | The first communities to use it were still small , organized on a segmental basis and dependent on a lithic technology . |
| 6 | In the electronics industry that Wild and Hill studied particularly , female turnover rates showed a high relationship with job satisfaction/dissatisfaction : many women , like many men , express a need for personally satisfying work and the failure to find it is often a reason for changing one 's job . |
| 7 | It 's ridiculous place to put it is n't it ? |
| 8 | WELL , IF you want to go on strike , the place to do it is obviously the London borough of Barnet . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's no reason at the moment to suppose it 's not benign , but if we don t take it out , it could turn nasty . |
| 10 | As full analysis may take several days to complete it is very important that it be carried out in a thermally regulated laboratory . |
| 11 | The failure to rebuild it is somehow indicative of what is wrong with our country . |
| 12 | The ‘ Davni Chasy ’ issue was important because it helped both the band and RCA learn a great deal about each other , although it is probably closer to the truth to say it was really a case of RCA simply learning more about the staunch and pedantic attitude of The Wedding Present . |
| 13 | This argument has a psychological ( and ideological ! ) appeal although the empirical evidence to support it is rather thin . |
| 14 | Hammering a metal to harden it is not uncommon : this was the way of hardening the edges of copper and bronze weapons and the old clockmakers always hammered their brass gear-wheels . |
| 15 | Top metalsmith has skilfully created the replica , with NMS archaeologists providing academic support to ensure it is as accurate as possible . |
| 16 | The old-fashioned concept of the sedimentation causing the subsidence to accommodate it is just not tenable . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend firmly rebut the criticisms made by those who continue to argue that although the aims of that Act are excellent , the funding arrangements to support it are not ? |
| 18 | With force becoming less attractive , the states-system was likely to stay in place , since the available means to overthrow it were too destructive to use . |
| 19 | No doubt she would be doing the cycle irreparable damage , but the urge to ride it was too strong to be denied . |
| 20 | ‘ The Government allowed people to believe it was always going to be good . |
| 21 | The fire officer inspected the set at about 6 o'clock on the evening of the performance , as fire officers normally do , to put a flame to the scenery to ensure it is properly fire-proofed . |
| 22 | We did n't want people to think it was only for production and engineering . |
| 23 | ‘ God speed , ’ he cried , and ran a few steps alongside the departing train to show it was n't just a question of out of sight out of mind . |
| 24 | Today provides a more immediate issue- the final opportunity for cricket to show it 's not administered entirely by blithering idiots . |
| 25 | For my tastes , watching the boats go by is one of life 's happiest pleasures , and the best place in the world to do it is undoubtedly Venice , the supreme and eternal sea-city . |
| 26 | Under the Lalonde scheme , any company producing toxic waste would have to reach an agreement with the state environment agency to ensure it was adequately treated . |
| 27 | You toss the coin from hand to hand to show it is not gone . |
| 28 | ‘ It was an easy decision to say it was n't safe , ’ said fly-past organiser , Wing Commander , Dave Roome , explaining the change of plan . |
| 29 | That was the movie in which Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye went to Vermont for the holiday to discover it was not snowing when it jolly well should have been . |
| 30 | Ronni glanced at her bedside clock to discover it was only just after six-thirty . |