Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as being truly Scottish it needs to have strong international links . |
| 2 | How completely different it sounded in French . |
| 3 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 4 | And that 's it 's not true at all it 's just different it considered . |
| 5 | He refused to comment on Pittencrieff 's intentions for its recently-acquired 16.6 per cent stake in Aberdeen Petroleum , but said Pittencrieff had made it clear it wanted to see rationalisation among the smaller oil companies . |
| 6 | Once you 've worked out your policy , you should make it clear it applies to all staff , at all levels , and you should be prepared to use it fairly and consistently . |
| 7 | Now it 's clear it did n't . ’ |
| 8 | BAe has made it clear it did not consider the bid by Mr Hooke as a serious contender and has said it regards the Raytheon offer as best for the company , shareholders and employees . |
| 9 | Although making clear it preferred Mr Major to Mr Kinnock , it concluded by giving its backing — just — to a vote for the Labour Party . |
| 10 | In the end de Gaulle 's strategy had succeeded , but the fact that it had required Coty 's intervention to be successful showed just how risky it had been . |
| 11 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 12 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 13 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 14 | ‘ It was chauffeur-driven and chauffeur-maintained before the war and if anything went wrong it went straight back to Rolls-Royce . |
| 15 | The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy . |
| 16 | Still get some wrong it do n't matter anyway does it . |
| 17 | ( But of course , if they 're wrong it deprives them of one or more credit options which might have actually suited them well . ) |
| 18 | So if it tastes edible it gets eaten . |
| 19 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 20 | After lying deserted it became a timber factory for a while in the 1960s . |
| 21 | For a second I considered whether I might not be able to make a meal from the remains , but , not only was the edge off my appetite , there was something repulsive about the thought of eating carrion , however fresh it looked . |
| 22 | What was funny it made a loud noise but it hurt my ankle as well . |
| 23 | This year , having described Martin Amis 's novel London Fields — at first widely expected to win the Booker Prize — ‘ as a fizzy , spiky , savagely satirical book ’ which was ‘ sometimes so horrible it makes you gag , so funny it makes you fall off your chair ’ , the judges instead gave the prize to Lindsay Clarke for The Chymical Wedding . |
| 24 | It looks so funny it makes me laugh , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Several hundred passengers lined the ship 's rails , staring into the fog and willing it to clear . |
| 26 | And the harder we try to recall it , the more elusive it seems to become . |
| 27 | you put the ti the trumpet too high it sounds very much out of place . |
| 28 | As they oxygen concentration that 's being produced , gets very high it slows it down , it slows it and it stops . |
| 29 | Where this is high it suggests that an additional sampling station might be set up . |
| 30 | The tide was so high it gave the impression of the train being waterborne . |