Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm er what about the wor possibly a word like indifferent but it 's not a very common word in the English language , possibly would n't be bothered or something like that . |
| 32 | Now and again one would try to expostulate with the man in white but it was no good ; nobody was listening . |
| 33 | ( It must also be said that only about one in ten of the adult population in Britain in teetotal and it could be that at least some people in this group are unwell , rather than the other way round . ) |
| 34 | I 've just spent six months in Cottonvale and I mean its degrading , I mean cos your locked up in a cell from eight o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning and your not got any toilet facilities you 've got to use a potty if you want to go to the toilet and it is degrading , I mean there 's people in there , well I was a first offender the first time I was in , but I mean there 's people in there seventeen year old that have n't a clue about life in general and it is degrading for them . |
| 35 | Under the legislation , which has Government backing , it will become an offence to carry a knife in public unless it specifically relates to work , religion or national costume . |
| 36 | The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence . |
| 37 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |
| 38 | The two have users in common and it was at the request of some large accounts that the relationship was formed . |
| 39 | In fact I had never even imagined life without fat so it was something of a challenge to create a very low fat diet for myself , first of all , and then for my slimmers — a diet which at the same time as being very low in fat included all the necessary nutrients . |
| 40 | It is clear , however , that political historians can not afford to confine their attention to the goings-on at Westminster or St James 's , and that the history of party under the later Stuarts is as much about the divisions that emerged in society at large as it is about what happened in Parliament or at the royal Court . |
| 41 | Inner conflict has as much potential for good as it does evil , for the conflicts experienced provide opportunities for mature choices , as well as self-luxuriating indulgences . |
| 42 | He took a lot of convincing that it was , indeed , the same fish . |
| 43 | The man took a lot of convincing that it would not be well unless it was stitched ; and when John said that he would pay , there was a further argument . |
| 44 | Clearly woman is a philonym , but its meaning does not precisely match the presuppositions of pregnant because it has incompatibles ( e.g. ewe , mare ) which are also philonyms . |
| 45 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 46 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 47 | This was quite as true when Tabitha Jute met Marco Metz in Schiaparelli as it had been in the days of the Big Step , years before she was born . |
| 48 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 49 | You do n't usually write C for current because it gets confused with lots of other like capacitance . |
| 50 | As minister , he issued instructions to vignerons on the advantages of adding sugar at the time of pressing and it was the vignerons of the more northerly winemaking regions , like Champagne , who benefited the most . |
| 51 | The strategy effectively neutralised what the Conservatives had hoped would be a vote-winner with an electorate wary about an upsurge in union power under Labour if it could be made an issue . |
| 52 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 53 | The bombing was , she argued , intended to dislodge the Qaddafi regime in Libya-even though it was civilian property as much as air-bases that were bombed , with much loss of life amongst children and others . |