Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 2 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
| 3 | Grassy plains and both open and mountainous deserts , gregarious where it is common . |
| 4 | For the rest , it is distasteful where it is not dull . |
| 5 | With a startled squawk a rook flew from one tree to another where it perched complaining loudly . |
| 6 | The proposal for a Rhyl relief road could mean yet another where it crosses the A525 . |
| 7 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 8 | ‘ Is this where it hurts ? ’ |
| 9 | To date , LanOptics has used distributors such as Datarange Communications Ltd , but following the establishment of the UK company , it is now to sell direct where it feels this is more strategic . |
| 10 | But it was just the fact I suppose that maybe some of the the family had died out and the person that was was n't just quite clear where it was . |
| 11 | " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ? |
| 12 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 13 | ROS : Yes , it 's lighter than it was . |
| 14 | So the box is lighter than it should be and the price the consumer pays is too low . |
| 15 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 16 | The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting . |
| 17 | For statement pairs containing a negative , sorting was faster when the two statements meant something different than it was when the two statements meant the same . |
| 18 | If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's |
| 19 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 20 | If we 're to win Fairclough must mark flash well and Newsome and possibly Pemberton play out of their skins — Battyburn do n't just have flash although it does appear that way at times . |
| 21 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 22 | Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) . |
| 23 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 24 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 25 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 26 | But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is . |
| 27 | Maybe it 's more exciting than it sounds . |
| 28 | The westerly wind will remain light so it will feel pleasantly warm in the sunshine . |
| 29 | All seams are taped and for general use the jacket appeared to be more waterproof than it was breathable . |
| 30 | She 'd expected it to be more sumptuous than it was . |