Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to go sailing , play volleyball or have a round of mini golf it wo n't cost you a penny and the kids can be left in the Pirates Club while you spend the afternoon doing things you want to do … but you may have a job persuading them to leave a few hours later . |
| 2 | ‘ If they gave hard facts instead of patronising advertising it would be better . |
| 3 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 4 | With all this it is rather slow to grow and frequently when the culture plate is examined for evidence of gonococcal growth it will be found to be overgrown by other bacteria or yeasts , making it difficult or impossible to identify the gonococcus . |
| 5 | That had stopped the Ministry ‘ dead in its tracks ’ and it had come to the conclusion that if it denied premium to the rearer of suckled calves it would eventually be challenged by a hill farmer before the European Court . |
| 6 | ‘ I know that if Ken had had any kind of sexual relationship it would n't have been with anyone he knew well . |
| 7 | Thus , when it is intended to export a product to a number of different countries it may , and often will be , necessary to carry out separate tests at several different conditions of temperature and humidity . |
| 8 | Most of this chapter is devoted to a description of five sets of case studies of the new technology , showing the wide variety of different impacts it can make on the nature of work . |
| 9 | In the absence of magnetic saturation it can be shown ( Roters , 1941 ) that the torque produced is proportional to the square of the phase current in a variable-reluctance motor and linearly proportional to the phase current in a hybrid motor . |
| 10 | USING THE American motion picture industry as a gauge of public interest it would seem that through the post-war years the American public was content to uneasily ignore the catastrophe that was Pearl Harbor . |
| 11 | This means that if it is of public interest it will appear in all the newspapers and no particular paper will have the incentive to try to procure a scoop . |
| 12 | Now electrolysis is the permanent removal of hair by the insertion of a very small needle attached to a machine and you press the button on the needle holder which releases current , and that cooks the hair , it actually cooks the root of the hair , but each hair has to be individually treated , so if you 've got quite a lot of coarse hair it can take a lot of time , and a lot of money . |
| 13 | Yet , while it could play down the challenge of British fascism it could not ignore the threat of European fascism . |
| 14 | They present a critical agenda involved in a current cultural confrontation — questioning the ideological partiality of a neo-conservative critical perspective , which apparently refuses to confront the terms on which it asserts its authenticity and which limits the range of cultural artefacts it will admit as civilised discourse . |
| 15 | Taking equation ( 4.29 ) to represent the economist 's model , it is easy to see that he would recommend to a government that if it wished to achieve a higher level of real output it should raise the rate of growth of the quantity of money . |
| 16 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 17 | In the South Wales region it is expected that the annual quantity required from this source will rise from about 2.8 mt to 3.6 mt over the 20 year period , despite the fact that as a proportion of overall consumption it will fall from 15% to 10% . |
| 18 | In the South Wales region it is expected that the annual quantity required from this source will rise from about 2.8 mt to 3.6 mt over the 20 year period , despite the fact that as a proportion of overall consumption it will fall from 15% to 10% . |
| 19 | Sihanouk 's plan was unacceptable to Soviet leaders anyway since like the proposal for a neutralisation of contemporary Afghanistan it would imperil the retention of the socialist structure of government in the neutralised state . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , TNCs do introduce much useable technology into the Third World , and while it may not lead to the conquest of global markets it may still have a very positive effect on industry and employment in particular countries . |
| 21 | Without at least some form of official introduction it would have been almost impossible to get the co-operation and approval necessary to visit any government penal centre or institution . |
| 22 | If age discrimination was entirely a matter of individual attitudes it could be more easily tackled . |
| 23 | If cost-effectiveness is of paramount consideration it would clearly be advisable for any future project to focus particularly on those clients shown to be most likely to benefit from its services . |
| 24 | Unlike the construction of age equivalents , in the generation of standard scores it may help to include children with linguistic difficulties in the standardisation sample , since the test 's items will be designed to discriminate these children from children who are not experiencing language difficulties . |
| 25 | In the above illustrations of serial usages it will be obvious that the harmony does not sound well — in fact Example 141(c) is quite vile . |
| 26 | In fact , MAS provides a service similar to that of an investment banker in America , although when dealing with acquisitions of quoted companies it will normally involve a merchant bank in certain aspects of the work . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if you have had a number of unsuccessful taxations it may be that your draftsman is being too optimistic , especially if payment is on the basis of a percentage of the costs as drawn — If you want to test out your costs draftsman , having received a bill back , send the file off to someone else and see how they draw it . |
| 28 | Since word order is not now needed for signalling an increased specificity of conceptual meaning it can be put to other purposes , as we shall see presently . |
| 29 | In fact there are so many that without the use of sophisticated computers it would be impossible to monitor them all . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal has in such cases refused a jury even though the allegation accuses the plaintiff of committing criminal offences , although where the trial affects national interests or the honour and integrity of national personalities it may decide otherwise . |