Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 2 | It appears to be the commission 's way of making clear that it sees a huge chasm between recreational hacking and hacking for more sinister purposes . |
| 3 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |
| 4 | You can protest about this if it becomes a burden , but the time expended in doing so is probably inefficiently spent . |
| 5 | from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear . |
| 6 | Liked to pull that down that 's a normal hip joint , this is your bony pelvis with the socket joint , right , socket , this is your leg bone the femur , with the head of the femur at the top and it looks like that and they fit into one another and it forms a very good swinging joint you can do all sorts of things with your hip joint , ca n't you ? |
| 7 | The Lycoming 0–320 B3B engine is very reliable and it has a TBO of 2000 hours but only when half inch valves are fitted . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , ’ was all that Maidstone said to this but it had a knowing sound to it . |
| 9 | ‘ Hothousing is entirely different because it involves a pushy parent force-feeding their child to be bright — the natural spark is n't necessarily there , ’ says Mr Short . |
| 10 | But applying QALYs to the allocation of resources is quite different because it involves a choice between the welfares of different people . |
| 11 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |
| 12 | While a formal study of the nature and tasks of philosophy , this book is particularly interesting because it projects a theory of knowledge which subsequently provided the foundation for his studies of politics . |
| 13 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
| 14 | It is interesting because it gives a tiny glimpse into the mind and intention of the Gospel writers . |
| 15 | I find it painful because it wastes a lot of effort . |
| 16 | It is economical because it allows a high temperature to be maintained in just a small area , and useful as it encourages speedy germination of seeds and rapid rooting of cuttings . |
| 17 | True religion makes spiritual progress easier because it provides a vocabulary , a structure and a community , all of which can help people to attend to this dimension . |
| 18 | If two groups acquiesce in the representation of their perspective through the same array of objects , which for one group is acceptable because it is bright and cheerful , while for the other is acceptable because it enshrines a sense of good design , each may project its own perspective onto the other ; in this case , the object permits the coexistence of two perspectives , rather than the dominance of either . |
| 19 | The middle of the passage was , however , rather different since it concerned a motorcyclist 's deliberations about the nature of empiricism , and it was considerably more difficult to understand . |
| 20 | In the case of the APT , the approach is diametrically opposite in that although it derives a causal relationship , it does not identify the determinant factors . |
| 21 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 22 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 23 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 24 | Or it may be that the internal organization of the firm is such that it replicates a capital market so that middle managers are obliged to profit-maximize . |
| 25 | However , it is increasingly clear that the scale of this challenge is such that it demands a response from a national as well as local level . |
| 26 | From the opening stomp of the title track , a joyous collusion of The Glitter Band and M 's ‘ Pop Musik ’ , to the final rip-roaring ‘ I 'm Against The Eighties ’ , ‘ Back In Denim ’ is such a labour of love , so insanely , often painfully personal that it raises a smile even as we 're being made to feel ashamed that we allow our music to be hijacked and controlled by them . |
| 27 | It has lots of similar properties to a larger computer , in so much that it has a similar , what is referred to as a central processing unit , and in some instances similar peripheral devices , but if one can imagine that for certain applications where these have been collectively gathered together in erm the ultimate setting on a single integrated circuit , then one has a microcomputer , comprised of a microprocessor , some memory and some appropriate interfacing devices to the outside world . |
| 28 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 29 | After about three weeks it was noticeable that it had a problem with its mouth . |
| 30 | Curran is convinced that it produced a ‘ muted radicalism ’ but it would be equally justified to claim that the Mirror had to change because it could not portray the 1950s and 1960s in the language or imagery of the 1940s . |