Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if it was me to keep it balanced I usually put the bigger ones near the bottom or on one side so that the small bit are at the top and the big bits are at the bottom and artistically it looks a bit better balanced but it does n't really matter for the maths where you put it . |
| 2 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 3 | There was even a small river tumbling over the edge in a waterfall so wind-whipped that it reached the ground as rain . |
| 4 | The recession , which had proved deeper and longer than predicted , made Bush 's own re-election less certain than it seemed at mid-year . |
| 5 | In schools , the development of European awareness will have to be built into the curriculum much more than it has been so far . |
| 6 | She spoke with an accent so soft that it sounded as if an h was attached to each consonant . |
| 7 | But Miriam had noticed the slight intake of breath ; she had been perfectly aware that Louise might be shocked by her words but she had spoken them anyway , partly because she felt too weary not to say what she meant , partly because , though she liked Louise , she sometimes found her sweetness and prudish innocence rather cloying and it gratified her to offend them . |
| 8 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 9 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline ) . |
| 10 | It was as if I suffered from an optical illusion so strong that it consumed my other senses . |
| 11 | Against the rest of the sector and the market , that looks a good deal less attractive than it has in the past . |
| 12 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 13 | This is a good deal more difficult than it sounds , as small pieces of fluff and hairs always seem to appear from thin air by the million and float down on to the glass ! |
| 14 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 15 | I hit my pillow so hard that it has looked reproachful ever since . ) |
| 16 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 17 | When she switched on the light the little room exploded into a brightness so extreme that it hurt his eyeballs . |
| 18 | A physical longing so strong that it seemed her very survival must be linked to it . |
| 19 | So we were able to complete the Hall or complete the Hall as far as it 's got . |
| 20 | To me , in a book containing so many emotions , I find dialogue really important because it lets me know exactly how the character is feeling rather than leaving me to make my own assumptions which are often wrong . |
| 21 | Freedom from Communism is not going to last the flag very long if it 's identified with a freedom to starve . |
| 22 | But the DoE found the Whitehall struggle more difficult than it had supposed . |
| 23 | The former method requires some effort , but it makes the case more realistic when it comes to cross-examination , and it enables the preliminary proceedings , including the interviewing of witnesses and briefing of counsel , to be done by student ‘ solicitors . ’ |
| 24 | The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him . |
| 25 | Includes the classic mod ‘ floater ’ ‘ I 'm So Thankful ’ , a record so cool that it makes Inspector Morse look like The Bill . |
| 26 | Colours are plain and strong which , despite the underlying sketchiness , makes the picture less ephemeral than it seems in black and white and so further removed from the heavenly evocation of ‘ The Zone of Love ’ . |
| 27 | Living too far away from things : a ) does n't do anything at all , b ) extends the nose so much that it sags and closes down , c ) allows the nose to examine other things which are too close and therefore blunts it again . |
| 28 | Wild with fear , Constance opened her mouth and bit his nose so hard that it hurt her teeth . |
| 29 | Lenny Campion gripped the Bakelite microphone so hard that it began to hurt his hand . |
| 30 | His abuse beat in her face like rain so heavy that it forced shut her eyes . |