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 | Grassy plains and both open and mountainous deserts , gregarious where it is common . |
| 3 | For the rest , it is distasteful where it is not dull . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! ) . |
| 15 | But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is . |
| 16 | Maybe it 's more exciting than it sounds . |
| 17 | The westerly wind will remain light so it will feel pleasantly warm in the sunshine . |
| 18 | All seams are taped and for general use the jacket appeared to be more waterproof than it was breathable . |
| 19 | She 'd expected it to be more sumptuous than it was . |
| 20 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 21 | Sun and wind are so free so it makes sense to use them where possible for power . |
| 22 | The range of media is large and the costs can be high so it is worth investigating the pulling power of different choices . |
| 23 | America has got to do that , Russia is broken up so it 's lesser than it is , in fact it 's going down , if only they 'd look , but you see they ca n't do it now without outside help . |
| 24 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 25 | It was dangerous , too , to appear too over-confident , or to do anything that might provoke him into making his unofficial fatwa slightly more public than it was already . |
| 26 | CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’ |
| 27 | The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears . |
| 28 | In historical time , the household formed the unit of work and the division between paid work and domestic work was less clear than it is to-day . |
| 29 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 30 | tabloid there , I read those , the headlines are hilarious , the headlines I think the manager who runs the headlines in The Sun is more funny than it all together . |