Example sentences of "it [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't think it right that a 150-year-old traditional English drink should be legislated out of the English language to satisfy the monopoly interests of the French champagne growers . ’ |
| 2 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 3 | The American audiences were kind of small at first and it was a major promotional coup to have survived it all because a lot of dates were pulled at the last minute — promoters could n't get any interest . |
| 4 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
| 5 | If I can use erm an analogy of my own rather than of his , to produce erm a detailed adaptation of an organism to a specific way of life , if only large steps , large mutational changes were possible , would be a little like trying a surgeon trying to remove erm an appendix with a scalpel mounted on some kind of trolley clamp with the rule that he could n't move it less than a foot at a time . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 7 | I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’ |
| 8 | He was n't expecting the jarring shock that shot through his other arm but the shortness of the flex prevented him from pulling it more than a few inches off the table . |
| 9 | She 's half brought it back already , but she ca n't make it more than a ruin . |
| 10 | The treaty on foreign policy carries with it more than a commitment to co-ordinate our policies . |
| 11 | From Miss Eaglen I have not yet experienced that personal involvement with what she sings which would make it more than an impressive exercise . |
| 12 | And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times . |
| 13 | Besides , in those days , the girls would have been on to it quick as a flash and we did n't want that . |
| 14 | Well I 've heard it before that a , said , said before that a , that , that the plant roots curl up to the surface to meet , rather than digging down deep and . |
| 15 | Such persons tended to see it simply as a question of money compensation for the injuries which had been inflicted in the shooting . |
| 16 | So you could see the pattern yourself and make it easier and a lot of the time at school when the teacher 's telling you , Why do n't you do it this way ? they 're not trying to make it harder for you . |
| 17 | I did n't take it seriously until a holiday took me to the Blakeney area of north Norfolk in 1974 . |