Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we ask where that power comes from , the answer is broadly that Parliament claimed it and the courts recognised it . |
| 2 | The student will no doubt come across scores in which these numbers are exceeded ( e.g. among the works of Wagner , Strauss , Mahler , Stravinsky , Holst , etc. ) , but the above specification is , as we have said , the normal one and it is inadvisable for economic reasons to expand it unless , of course , extra instruments are absolutely indispensable for the full expression of the composer 's ideas . |
| 3 | Some accounts have it that the Leviathan was actually the mate of the land beast BEHEMOTH . |
| 4 | It had not been my direct responsibility to purchase it and I was operating in a field where everyone else — the companies from which I might buy , those from which we now bought , and the management of the division — was an expert . |
| 5 | It is therefore in my view taking too much out of this case to read it as supporting the broad proposition that payment in response to an unlawful demand by an official is ipso facto recoverable . |
| 6 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 7 | It begins to look as if what is exhausting is not the amount of work per se , but the lack of clear values to underpin it and the consequent lack of regular enjoyment and true satisfaction that arise from it . |
| 8 | One popular hypothesis has it that variations in rates of sea-floor spreading are the controlling factor ( Hays & Pitman , 1973 ) . |
| 9 | Old Minch had it and you seem to have it as well , Creggan . |
| 10 | I half expected some floosie to open it but no , it was Charles . |
| 11 | Some depositors may believe that they have an obligation to archive and make available their data by virtue of having used public funds to collect it or public time and co-operation in providing it . |
| 12 | No , that 's what I mean there have been three big ones very recently , cos like syndicate won it and the old lady won it and that other woman , that younger woman won it right what I 've done , all bits together what time do you think we 'll be back ? |
| 13 | We was carrying this ta erm table up the stairs and some boy knocked it and it fire alarms , everyone was , water started pouring down cos they have all the water as well , like , if it is a fire it was pouring |
| 14 | Now joint tenants is a legal term sensible place to describe it as it 's come up which is what husband and wife often own property as . |
| 15 | Popular idiom has it that the four themes are very imperfectly combined in the family : ‘ children ruin a marriage ’ , ‘ sex and family life simply do n't go together ’ , and so forth . |
| 16 | Thus , if team 3 , thinking of beef adds an e they have completed a word — bee — and lose a point ; but only if another team spots it and challenges them . |
| 17 | Ball , 44 , says his aim is to be ‘ the greatest coach and manager in the country ’ , and he will be given another chance to achieve it if he turns Stoke around . |
| 18 | We suppose that this person takes it that the rule he learnt demands this continuation rather than the one we favour ( which is of course the right one ) . |
| 19 | However , popular legend has it that Andrew Patterson , then Headmaster at the Manchester Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford , was perturbed to counter on several occasions a group of ex-pupils gathered around a certain gas-lamp in the city — the gas-lamp being a popular meeting place of local deaf people ( this was the subject of a Victorian drama as well . ) |
| 20 | sold it now , different people got it and they 've gone to Amer going to America yeah that was them , ever so nice girl she is and her children , two lovely girls and a boy of about sixteen I suppose , lovely girl she was , and they were frightened to go anywhere . |
| 21 | This theory has it that , as a breed , doctors like to be masters of every possible situation , and that this may even be a factor in their selection of medicine as a career . |
| 22 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 23 | And it 's , this woman had it and it swells up , and it er . |
| 24 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the Offline System . |
| 25 | The media item can be used again , but only if the Offline Manager re-initialises it and allocates it a new , unique identifier in VMS , then re-introduces it to the offline system . |
| 26 | It 's disgusting at his age , I agree , but old people do it and no young people say they ca n't . |
| 27 | The real problems came from studies by people like Tolman ( 1932 ) , Crespi ( 1942 ) , and Lashley ( 1963 ) , who showed that behavioural change can come about too rapidly for incremental learning to explain it and that what animals learn is not a set of reflexes but the location of desirable objects and events . |
| 28 | Well er , I think probably , I mean i so , this lady came on Friday and she 's coming on Friday of this week to collect it or collect the tapes |
| 29 | She 'd lick her finger and thumb , pounce calmly , then roll the flea for a few seconds to stun it before she cracked it between her thumb nails . |
| 30 | There was no short cut : farming was an art and few men had it unless they 'd come by it the hard way . |