Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 32 | Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms . |
| 33 | You can help this natural process by using friction to remove the top layer of dead cells , making the skin look clearer and fresher because it enables the surface to reflect the light . |
| 34 | Previously frozen meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't recook anything more than twice . |
| 35 | Previously frozen uncooked meat can be refrozen as long as it has been cooked , but do n't re-cook anything more than twice . |
| 36 | It is n't quite as simple as that but it works . |
| 37 | The service is tremendously friendly and efficient and it has some of the best ski schools in the world ( with instructors who speak English ) . |
| 38 | It would droop lower and lower until it rested on her knees , then she would clasp her knees with both hands and rock herself , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , moaning , her face hidden in her skid . |
| 39 | The types have also been used to describe processes such as denominationalisation , in which a sect becomes less inward-looking and world-rejecting as it accommodates to the rest of society . |
| 40 | Depressed and bewildered because it had inexplicably impaired his ability to think and concentrate , he soon guessed that his paralysis and clumsiness would make him always dependent on a wheelchair . |
| 41 | How insulting Delia Cope is , obviously she feels too high and mighty to read Spare Rib because it 's become less entertaining , uninteresting , uninformative and boring because it covers Black women 's issues . |
| 42 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 43 | The offence this may cause is attributed to the fact that it ‘ crosses the line between private and public since it makes available … some sexual act of a private kind … for a voyeuristic interest ’ . |
| 44 | The house seemed to be sucked in then out again and the foundations shook , but it was solid and well-built and it stood firm , although there were crashes and roars from immediately overhead . |
| 45 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 46 | We sat there and had two or three or four and it got to 11 o'clock and we had a few sandwiches and things like that , and we just sat there talking . |
| 47 | Literally , and then you have to sit there with this cream on , and it 's all very fiddly and messy and it smells . |
| 48 | Why was it that this man was such a pleasant and knowledgeable companion , and yet so hard and ruthless when it came to getting his own way ? |
| 49 | Golf is not privileged and much as it likes to think of itself as such , Augusta is not a cathedral . |
| 50 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 51 | As he rushes hither and thither , his note-books become crammed with an amazing collection of miscellaneous information which is so diverse and uneven that it gives colour to and so in a way explains Robert Lowie 's famous definition of culture as a ‘ thing of shreds and patches ’ . |
| 52 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 53 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 54 | But like those marriages , it should at least be fast and exciting while it lasts . |
| 55 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 56 | The French Government 's response , as swift and dramatic as it turned out to be highly risky , was to call its own referendum . |
| 57 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 58 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 59 | Well change is fine as long as it 's done sympathetically and actually has some purpose . |
| 60 | The people are generally friendly but shy and it takes a long time to gain their confidence to the point where they will teach a visiting scientist the secrets of their art . |