Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said it 's my bloody land that it do n't matter what I do |
| 2 | In fact , because only half an inch was involved it was impossible to see from the outside of my right shoe that it was different in any way from my left . |
| 3 | It is my strong impression that it is probably a very small MI5 mafia who have been out of the service for some time , who still continue the vendetta for no doubt extremely right-wing purposes of their own . |
| 4 | I agree with my hon. Friend that it is extremely important to bear in mind the key significance of the Chamber and the Smoking Room . |
| 5 | I agree with my hon. Friend that it is vital at this time , when there is the greatest risk of proliferation that the world has ever known and when the world 's greatest nuclear power is in a state of disintegration , that we ensure that while we take every positive and constructive step to try to deal with that very grave situation , we recognise the need to maintain our essential safeguard , our own nuclear deterrent . |
| 6 | As for communication , there is no way of knowing whether a cab radio would have made any difference in this accident , but I agree with my hon. Friend that it is desirable that cab radios should be fitted into locomotives and multiple unit fleets . |
| 7 | It was my stubborn belief that it would be better the other way round , because the little ones surely risked injury under that press of naked weight . |
| 8 | It is my firm belief that it is an ideal place to do all three . ’ |
| 9 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 10 | I have continuously taken the view during the time that I have held my present office that it is a great privilege to be Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Yet another crenellation had been removed from Sauniere 's library tower , reinforcing my instinctive belief that it was an integral part of the story . |
| 12 | ‘ It is my earnest hope that it will not . ’ |
| 13 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 14 | We could see by its black bib that it was a male ; the female 's throat is unmarked . |
| 15 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 16 | Heaving over to one elbow just in time not to drown in her own effluent , Jezrael was so involved with her physical self that it was only after a moment that she noticed the base of one wall oozing forward to cover her vomit . |
| 17 | A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head . |
| 18 | The Midland might have persevered with Crocker , but by then the bank had been so bruised by its American adventure that it could think of nothing but leaving . |
| 19 | At a horse show anyone can recognise the horse that is saying , ‘ You 're annoying me ! ’ , by the swishing of its tail ; or the horse that announces to its spurred rider , ‘ You 're hurting my sides ! ’ , by tightened muscles making a clear line along the lower edge of its ribcage ; or the halter horse , taut with anxiety and showing the whites of its eyes , telling all but its insensitive handler that it is afraid ! |
| 20 | I am looking at a photograph of an adult dunnock , so small in comparison to its monstrous foster-child that it has to perch on its back in order to feed it . |
| 21 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 22 | She says of her new career that it is ‘ partly choice , but I wanted to leave school-teaching anyway as I had become disillusioned ’ . |
| 23 | She had n't accepted then — and she was pretty certain that she would n't do so now — his dismissive claim that it was solely due to the pressure of business . |
| 24 | They stumbled out drowsily , responding with reluctance to his repeated assurance that it was " only a little way " . |
| 25 | When , for the first time , the Reverend John Wesley stopped in Portadown , then a village of about 700 inhabitants , on Friday 10 April 1767 he made his oft-quoted remark that it was ‘ a place not troubled with any kind of religion . ’ |
| 26 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 27 | At the beginning of December a Time-CNN poll gave his approval rating as 46 per cent , the first time throughout his entire presidency that it had fallen below 50 per cent . |
| 28 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 29 | Much of it can be attributed to his astute realization that it was possible to break with the disastrous tradition of Pius IX without compromising on essentials . |
| 30 | That 's his new thing that it goes bang like that to you . |