Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Note that this chart is slightly different from that used for chariots because it is much harder to hit the crew or warhorses on a War Wagon because of the size of the tower .
2 This tactic does sometimes work , but it 's quite risky for Orcs because it ties up a lot of character points which you could well use elsewhere .
3 Year round it is popular for walks as it exudes an elegant serenity inspired of the water and the graceful trees .
4 This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull .
5 The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there .
6 The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before .
7 Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show .
8 I 've always been fond of animals and it interests me to have them about to look at .
9 The terminology of fractions and strata has proved popular amongst Marxists because it provides a framework with which divisions within the working class and capitalists can be analysed .
10 It was popular with farmers because it 's a quick efficient way of getting rid of excess straw and killing off harmful weeds .
11 There are now only 23 permanent residents in Pennan , which was once as popular with smugglers as it now is with film fans .
12 They are popular with parents and it 's no surprise that well over a thousand schools have voted in favour of such status .
13 He said such ceremonies were popular with tourists and it was likely people would notice the ceremonies were not as spectacular .
14 As Robert Rothstein has commented , Realism was popular with politicians because it ‘ encapsulated what they took for granted , especially after the failures of the 1930s and during the height of the cold war ’ .
15 ‘ I do n't practise scoring direct from corner-kicks and it was just luck that the first one went in .
16 sales and marketing director for Masters & Andren , explains , ‘ Induction cooking is becoming increasingly popular in kitchens because it brings together the key elements of energy saving and new technology .
17 It has been argued that differentiation in refugia is less marked in trees than it is in insects or birds , because of their different life spans , but such theory provides an explanation for the now sympatric occurrence of 12 species of Eschweilera ( Lecythidaceae ) near Manaus .
18 Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness .
19 For it is the personality of Law that has remained as elusive to historians as it was to his own contemporaries .
20 It 's tempting to be manly and brutal at times but it often pays to be more cautions with your responses that are selected using a multiple choice system .
21 ‘ I give my personal guarantee that this production of Swan Lake will be as magical for children as it is for adults , ’ he wrote .
22 It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it .
23 They saw for the first time what was to become a regular and tragic sequence of events : a dramatic response to the first treatment , a lesser one to a second , and in the end delayed death from a condition which had become as resistant to drugs as it was to radiation therapy .
24 The purpose and remit of the panel should , therefore , be made explicit to colleges and it was recommended that this be addressed by colleges and the Council as part of staff development .
25 As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic .
26 Situated in a secluded setting , yet only 100 metres from the beach , the hotel is ideal for waterlovers as it 's only a five minute walk to Ortakent 's watersports facilities and beachside tavernas .
27 Ultrasonography is ideal for infants since it does not entail ionising radiation , allows parents to be present during the examination , and is non-invasive .
28 It gives a neat neckline which looks hand stitched and is ideal for children as it has lots of stretch .
29 Risk is costly to individuals because it reduces their utility .
30 Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys .
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