Example sentences of "it [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but of course James and Danny ma erm and thingmajig find it incredibly funny because they 're incredibly thick and they have no sense of humour at all . |
| 2 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 3 | But selling more slaves would have done it little good if it could not get paid for them , and in the 1680s the planters owed the company money for two full years supply of slaves . |
| 4 | Before this century , Roman Ilchester was poorly known , and even Haverfield , in 1906 , thought it little more than a village . |
| 5 | Ashe , now 49 , grew up in the segregated American South of the 1950's , making it wholly appropriate that he should have become such a dedicated campaigner for equal rights all round the world . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that many citizens ‘ banned and cursed her ’ , nor is it wholly surprising that there were some among them prepared to give her money to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella in Spain . |
| 7 | Is n't it rather terrible that what brings the pricking behind my eyelids is not old Eddy 's death , or even the thought of human mortality in general , but certain strokes of rhetoric — certain alliterations , repetitions , and verbal sonorities which do n't hold any literal meaning for me ? |
| 8 | Given the opinion poll results in The Guardian today , which show that a clear and growing majority of people are against further moves towards European monetary and political union , does my right hon. Friend find it rather curious that both the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party favour unilateral disarmament on the question of federalism ? |
| 9 | I 've always found it rather sad that a man could produce something as evocative as this and also produce a child who could not appreciate it. , |
| 10 | ‘ And I find it rather sad that both of you should think I do — be so suspicious of everyone 's motives . |
| 11 | ‘ The figures we have access to put it rather lower than that . |
| 12 | There are certain adjectives or quasi-adjectives which make it rather explicit that they are directed at the relation between the entity of the noun phrase and its description . |
| 13 | Being aware of the strict alcohol regulations , I did not object to this , although I did think it rather unfair that a school-friend was obliged to dispose of his soft drink before he entered the ground . |
| 14 | ( Unfortunately , this sometimes makes it rather worthy and less punchy than her writing on women . ) |
| 15 | ‘ I thought it rather spiteful but the Prince ordered me to burn them . |
| 16 | with them and one or two remained behind but er , yes it was interesting how erm I always found it rather funny that er you had to go to Leiston to Sudbury to evacuated to school |
| 17 | Katy watched as Grandma wound it slowly round and round and the ball of wool grew bigger and bigger . |
| 18 | Since Plato ( dreamed that he ) saw Socrates most days , and this was among the most vivid and consistent of all his experiences ( dreams ? ) , and since Socrates said things which he , Plato , had not thought of before and which sometimes surprised him , Plato found it most consistent and convenient to ’ believe ’ that Socrates really did exist . |
| 19 | But all the indirect evidence , including the records of his reading in such writers on generation as Erasmus Darwin , Johannes Müller and Giorgio Gallesio , makes it most probable that he came to pangenesis in such a revision of his 1838 position , and that he did so in the years 1840–1 . |
| 20 | She therefore considers it most unfortunate that his statement amounted to an ‘ outburst of Anglo-Saxon parochialism ’ . |
| 21 | Marenches considered it most unfortunate that Morocco did not have oil , for Hassan was " one of the rare statesmen of our time . " |
| 22 | I have recently started reading Woodworker magazine and find it most interesting and informative ; thank you for an excellent publication . |
| 23 | For himself , he did not find the piece as graceful as could be wished , but Alice seemed to find it most enjoyable and had giggled over its charms ever since . |
| 24 | The symphony brings a refined performance , too , and many will find it most sympathetic that Marriner keeps Tchaikovsky 's big melodies flowing well . |
| 25 | They , likewise , would find it most unusual and uncongenial if they were expected to devote themselves to constraining and criticizing a Conservative Government . |
| 26 | I found it most questionable that Forward Publishing , having won fifteen awards — including a class winner — was not mentioned once throughout the whole ceremony . |
| 27 | Despite the large increase in the private sector , which has no single administrative body to which all private homes belong , only 12 homes refused to participate in the 1990 census , rendering it most unlikely that the changes in both demography and dependency in any sector are a result of response bias . |
| 28 | Forgive me , Commander , if I 'm stating the obvious , but is n't it most likely that someone unknown to him , a tramp , a psychopath , a casual thief , killed both him and this Harry Mack ? ’ |
| 29 | In Austria I consider it most important that the situation in VENEZIA GIULIA should not be repeated . |
| 30 | Teachers thought it most important that pupils should gain emotional pleasure , develop positive attitudes towards reading , develop personally and socially through empathy , become tolerant and gain insights into relationships . |