Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again the government retained extensive administrative powers to give it a free hand in dealing with radical writers and journalists . |
| 2 | Likewise , our earlier analysis of the roots of Whiggery make it possible to appreciate why a Court Whig position developed after the Glorious Revolution ; there always existed such a potential for such a development , but it required the right political circumstances to enable it to come to fruition . |
| 3 | But we can be sure of one thing : before the end of the century we will see the telephone metamorphose into the mobile audio-visual communications centre it has long had the potential to become . |
| 4 | ‘ My aunt lives in Hastings , so my bloody overprotective parents thought it would be OK for me to come to Sussex . |
| 5 | It has been observed , for example , that British firms find it easier to persuade workers to accept redundancies but harder to obtain flexibility of working practices and job demarcations than do their French counterparts . |
| 6 | For what may be ‘ bossiness ’ in the home can turn out to be a valuable contribution of efficiency and ‘ drive ’ in a different setting , working with a team of strangers , where the usual social restraints keep it under reasonable control . |
| 7 | Officially it is for ‘ consultations ’ but the usual reliable sources say it follows a series of death threats by white bigots who were displeased when he said the South African-controlled Koevoet paramilitary forces were ‘ on a turkey shoot ’ against Swapo guerrillas . |
| 8 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 9 | With this in mind and a few sound nuts to bear it out , move left for Manzoku , onto a blanker patch — one of the more testing sections of the climb — then up and into true ‘ jug-hauling ’ territory and the obvious line . |
| 10 | In the monkey the primary visual cortex projects into a band of specialized cortical areas surrounding it ( Maunsell and Newsome 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Austin did n't exist until 1846 , when some prominent Texans decided it would be a good place for the new state 's capital . |
| 12 | There is even talk of making big city departments tender for work ( a few tiny ones do it already ) against bids from commercial competitors . |
| 13 | And if S&M is so politically challenging , how come so many judges and high-ranking civil servants enjoy it ? |
| 14 | Some present MPs think it has already " become all too easy to opt out of real responsibility at Westminster by immersion in constituency work " . |
| 15 | What he really needs is to have some blond streaks to lift it a shade or two . ’ |
| 16 | Television and radio advertising was banned ; the BBC refused to play it , and some major retailers to stock it . |
| 17 | The 18 months that Del Amitri have been away from the spotlight have n't been wasted and they 've come up with some belting songs to prove it . |
| 18 | No Prime Minister has enjoyed this twice-weekly brains trust — and Margaret Thatcher was no exception — but few Prime Ministers did it as well or as consistently . |
| 19 | A fine position , constant exposure , and some tricky sections ensure it status as one of the greatest sea cliff classics . |
| 20 | I mean , you can understand that light coloured breeches make it easier for the judge to see where the rider 's legs are against a dark horse . |
| 21 | Only in a few cosmetic details did it owe anything to French or other West European influences . |
| 22 | ( It is tempting to call this curve ‘ the tail ’ , though in fact the old mythological figures show it as the Bear 's head . ) |
| 23 | Erm I 've go some purple crystals believe it or not . |
| 24 | The full 60-second version of ‘ Nature ’ will be used , with some small additions to link it to the TV commercial . |
| 25 | The resistance on the part of some Anglo-Saxon archaeologists to formulating hypotheses and to examine methods currently in use is reflected in Wilson 's suggestion that ‘ the tendency on the part of some American archaeologists to force it [ archaeology ] within certain philosophic boxes … quite at odds with the loose methods of induction often needed to deal with the archaeological material must be ignored ’ ( 1976a , p. 2 ) . |
| 26 | Before that time , alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain , though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle . |
| 27 | Some young readers find it disturbing , not because the characters lack emotion but because the whole story expresses emotional immaturity or instability . |
| 28 | It is possible that the range of the nasal-raising rule was wider than in nineteenth-century Belfast , as some other spellings indicate it in monosyllables before nasal + voiced obstruent : these are hendes ( 'hands ' ) , bend ( 'band' ) . |
| 29 | and this other mates got it as well and these two mates have shot , he 's gone |
| 30 | There we would see about 30 pissed-up shaggers giving it some behind the piled-high sun loungers ( no standards ) . |