Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 'd be polite and charming if it killed her ! |
| 32 | The spray is not merely unpleasant , but is also extremely painful if it reaches its target directly . |
| 33 | The Council … believes strongly that a first degree course in Educational Studies lasting three years may be designed to lead to an Honours award … the concept of a three-year degree course in Educational Studies , leading to an Honours or an unclassified degree , will be acceptable provided it combines an adequate period of practical experience in the classroom with a requisite minimum of academic studies . |
| 34 | ‘ Oh , would n't it be exciting if it landed near us ! ’ cried Hilary . |
| 35 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 36 | Can I just ask , would it be different if it had been a military aircraft ? |
| 37 | ‘ It would have been more interesting if it had been more explicit , ’ she said . |
| 38 | I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child . |
| 39 | ‘ Hothousing is entirely different because it involves a pushy parent force-feeding their child to be bright — the natural spark is n't necessarily there , ’ says Mr Short . |
| 40 | But applying QALYs to the allocation of resources is quite different because it involves a choice between the welfares of different people . |
| 41 | It 's too early to call it a breakthrough but it is different because it does n't set out to kill tumours , it stops the process which spreads them . |
| 42 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |
| 43 | ‘ This case is different because it appears not to involve the usual criminal fraternity . |
| 44 | John has two PhDs but I do n't believe he has This sentence is pragmatically anomalous because it contradicts the standard Quality implicature that one believes what one asserts . |
| 45 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 46 | This material is particularly interesting because it combines the radical with the species to which it is structurally related . |
| 47 | The result is interesting because it bears on the following problem . |
| 48 | To the historian , this makes it more interesting because it presents hostages to fortune , and there is more to interpret . |
| 49 | The case of " you know what I mean " is especially interesting because it does not fall into any of the traditional categories of lexis , grammar or phonology . |
| 50 | While a formal study of the nature and tasks of philosophy , this book is particularly interesting because it projects a theory of knowledge which subsequently provided the foundation for his studies of politics . |
| 51 | This diversity is interesting because it exhibits the creative originality of human beings . |
| 52 | The rise is particularly interesting because it confounded expectations . |
| 53 | The last quality is interesting because it has sometimes been suggested that his music-making lacks humour , one of those generalizing statements that , typically , posits a judgement without bothering to examine the evidence . |
| 54 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
| 55 | The mention of Cyprus is interesting because it shows that Egypt was not mere opportunism : the decision to attack Persia in strength on Cyprus had already been made . |
| 56 | This evidence is particularly interesting because it shows an effect of right-context information , that is information received after the segment in question . |
| 57 | The MOUTH vowel [ P9 ] is especially interesting because it shows all the possible variants , from the extreme basilectal variant which occurs before /n/ in sound [ ] through the JC/JE variant [ ] and [ ] , something close to RP in down [ ] to the Cockney variant in [ ] twice . |
| 58 | Britain is geologically interesting because it contains many different rock formations containing a large range of metals . |
| 59 | The noticeable familial disruption occurring in other cases is particularly interesting because it reflects social role expectations of women , where the primary role traditionally is that of homemaker , family manager , and housewife ( Oakley , 1981 ) . |
| 60 | A fair proportion of the cells they recorded from gave rhythmic bursts of high-frequency firing , at the rate of some 4–12 per second , more or less irrespective of what the animal was doing ; this rhythmic activity is interesting because it corresponds with the so-called theta rhythm of the EEG , and may be an aspect of the attentional processes necessary for the learning or remembering of particular activities . |