Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Etched into Kinder Scout 's northern flanks , the clough provides pleasant rock-hopping as it twists and turns upwards until you enter a fine , hidden amphitheatre which gives good scrambling up rocky steps . |
| 2 | The ant repays the tree by sweeping it leaves free of fungi , by assaulting any leaf-eating animals that it encounters and by attacking any competing plant that dares come within chewing distance . |
| 3 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 4 | Under these tests , a country reserves the right to refuse an operating licence to a foreign firm if it deems that it already has enough similar companies on its territory . |
| 5 | 'Little Bunnies ' is a very popular song and it helps if one or two adults lie down with the children . |
| 6 | Er , the position of the British government is this , that it regrets er the inconvenience and the expense , er it would like to see a very sensible resolution but it knows that there will only be a resolution as I know the honourable gentleman knows by unanimity and it does not expect to see that unanimity in the future though it will work for it . |
| 7 | No no and we even if we were offered them we would n't take them because the logic of the thing is that what we 're trying to show is a medieval house as it looked when it was nearly new . |
| 8 | Now we do n't have any new things , I should have Thank you for asking the question because we 're trying to give the impression of a medieval house the what 's special about this is that it 's a medieval house as it looked when it was new . |
| 9 | This is a typical result and it seems that , like the tendons , the early development of the muscles is quite autonomous . |
| 10 | It was his first experience of such blatant prejudice and it came as a shock . |
| 11 | Maxwell 's theory clashed with these generally accepted assumptions because it predicted that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon and also predicted , as was to be realized later , that fluctuating currents should emit a new kind of radiation , radio waves , travelling at a finite velocity through empty space . |
| 12 | Rupert Murdoch 's mass circulation tabloid stooped to a new level of vicious scaremongering when it seemed that Neil Kinnock might just succeed in leading Labour back into government . |
| 13 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |
| 14 | Yet paradoxically in 1956 it was the British government which chose to embark upon a high-risk and impulsive policy once it believed that fundamental national interests were at stake . |
| 15 | Note that this is of limited use as it implies that the data is held only in the index or in the main file . |
| 16 | Prof. Tom Thomas , chairman of the polytechnic 's research degrees committee , said : ‘ This is a crucial signal because it demonstrates that the work of the polytechnic extends to the highest levels of scholarship . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ The Chief Executive and Mayor have to don official robes so it helps if they can shower first . ’ |
| 18 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 19 | Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity . |
| 20 | The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit . |
| 21 | Henry remained overall policy-maker but it looks as though Eleanor had been left to supervise the day-to-day running of her duchy and effectively in sole charge of her second son . |
| 22 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 23 | Maybe erm maybe our culture has particular metaphors , particular ways of understanding ways of human distress and it seems that very often when people have a rather non-specific distress these days , I mean it 's very common to find that erm counsellors , professionals , will be looking in into people 's backgrounds , looking into people 's backgrounds for evidence of child sex abuse . |
| 24 | Jersey courts do , however , look at Norman customary law and it appears that the existence of any kind of market overt rule has not been fully explored . |
| 25 | Reports suggested that senior figures in the ANC had sought to prevent a top-level meeting until it appeared that a cessation of violence could not be brought about by any other means . |
| 26 | The sing-song lumbered along for a little while but it appears that the ‘ Ball of Kirriemuir ’ has been removed from the Examination Syllabus . |
| 27 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 28 | A few French Commandos were making their way across the farmyard in the direction of a large barn where it appeared that someone was attempting to prepare breakfast . |
| 29 | The failure to resolve Germany 's future added to Europe 's economic problems and it seemed that Communists in France and Italy might exploit the consequent social discontent in order to seize power . |
| 30 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |