Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were originally intending to work in Zaire , but the situation is still somewhat unstable and it seems that the time is not quite right for them to go there . |
| 32 | Literally , and then you have to sit there with this cream on , and it 's all very fiddly and messy and it smells . |
| 33 | She said the notice was very detailed and it had taken longer than expected to draw up . |
| 34 | I find it unpleasant and it gives me an allergy so I 'd rather you did n't from my point of view . |
| 35 | He said , like coming to this well for your jug of water every day it 's alright while i , the jug , there 's some in the jug , but when you 've drunk it all the jug 's empty and it does n't do a thing for you ! |
| 36 | The cost of educating our children is below the national recoupment figure , and that I think is good , right and proper and it reflects the many years of excellent Conservative administration that Oxfordshire has enjoyed . |
| 37 | Unlike many psychodynamic theories , this one is at least susceptible to proof or disproof and it has just been comprehensively disproved . |
| 38 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 39 | ‘ But the language of our Parliament is English and it seems only right that any hospitality I give should be in English too . ’ |
| 40 | The Lycoming 0–320 B3B engine is very reliable and it has a TBO of 2000 hours but only when half inch valves are fitted . |
| 41 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
| 42 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 43 | And it was real crisp and it had prawn in it . |
| 44 | The new style is bright and crisp and it reflects the thorough , professional approach adopted by the college . ’ |
| 45 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 46 | since he came to our Lordships House with some very and has had to sit this thing ever since then with one exception er to speeches deeply and seriously critical er of the proposals er coming from Members of your Lordships House mostly with vast experience of the subject matter former Secretary 's er er former Chief Constable er and er so many others and I arise only to put one point to you if my Noble Friend decides to resist these amendments , it seems to me I may be wrong but it seems to me overwhelmingly clear that they will be carrying against him and they will be put into the Bill which will be very considerably altered and amended , some of your Lordships may think improved , but certainly drastically altered and I wonder whether er my Noble Friend thinks that really would be helpful from the point of view either of the pr future progress of the Bill , or the position of the Government . |
| 47 | The performances individually are ok but it seems the tactics are wrong . |
| 48 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 49 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 50 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 51 | ( Strictly speaking these orbits are heteroclinic but it makes sense , because of the symmetry , to identify C " + with C and to think of this situation as a symmetric version of a homoclinic orbit to a single stationary point . ) |
| 52 | In a move which has upset Leeds ' manager Howard Wilkinson , Batty said : ‘ I had heard that Blackburn were interested but it has all happened so quickly . |
| 53 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 54 | Jezrael thrashed to get free but it did n't work . |
| 55 | The thought was distasteful but it continued to play on her mind as she got dressed in a pair of jeans and a flowered silk shirt . |
| 56 | He had a reputation for being a bit slow-witted but it did n't perturb him in the least . |
| 57 | I think I 'll stick with Lulu — I 'm not superstitious but it 's been so good for me up until now that I 'm not going to throw it away . |
| 58 | Erm it 's a few years old but it 's hardly had any use . |
| 59 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 60 | The plant may be different but it uses basically the same manufacturing processes that the Partners licensed from the Belgian company of Solvay et Cie in 1872 . |