Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's usually because the heart itself is getting either old or tired or it 's damaged in one way . |
| 2 | And my body was lumbersome and sluggish and it slowed me down . |
| 3 | The manager can say this and that and it looks good on paper and there may be great reasoning behind it . |
| 4 | Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek . |
| 5 | The PC Wayplanner is economical and flexible since it runs on ordinary IBM-type personal computers . |
| 6 | Whereas the house was darkly masculine in its Victorian confidence , Miss Hatherby 's music room was so light and feminine that it seemed quite out of place in the general heaviness and gloom . |
| 7 | The texture of Les Majeurs is so light and natural that it gives a sensation of comfort and a sensational finish . |
| 8 | Boulestin 's writing still seems so fresh and original that it comes as a shock to realize that these happenings occurred over forty years ago , and that his first cookery book Simple French Cooking for English Homes appeared in 1923 . |
| 9 | His shaggy , walrus moustache was deeper coloured , streaky , with irony grey still in it and it was brown and sodden where it dipped into his own , special , pint-size mug which had the word ‘ Father ’ executed on it in rosebuds . |
| 10 | ‘ They were old and shredded but it crossed my mind to get out the glue stick . ’ |
| 11 | Peel told the NME : ‘ The Wedding Present 's virtues are that they make records which are direct and uncomplicated and it seems that these are now being regarded as vices in some quarters . ’ |
| 12 | It 's lighter and funnier than it sounds , but this was no gentle role . |
| 13 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 14 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 15 | This process can be painful and revealing but it leads to greater self-awareness — the first step to unambiguous communication . |
| 16 | Termite fishing is not as simple or straightforward as it sounds . |
| 17 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
| 18 | ‘ It was warm and personal and it felt right for him , ’ says Marie . |
| 19 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 20 | The people have been most warm and welcoming and it has been one of the most enjoyable times in my ministry . ’ |
| 21 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 22 | At last , with a little shaking of his arm , and thrice his head waving up and down , he raises a sigh so piteous and profound that it does seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's easy , simple and elegant and it goes right across the age range . ’ |
| 24 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 25 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 26 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 27 | The second revised ending though gives Estella a complete character change and seems to leave everything a bit too perfect and predictable as it ends more like a ‘ Mills and Boon ’ love story with |
| 28 | In 1561 he received a royal dispensation to be absent from his Durham prebend to finalize a map of England ‘ both fairer and more perfect and truer than it hath been hitherto ’ . |
| 29 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 30 | Its tone is playful and frivolous but it makes some valid criticisms . |