Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Don claims that his material runs with less friction than normal matting because it contains a silicone additive .
2 Educational integration therefore becomes a wider concept than social integration since it involves , among other things , how we use the knowledge given to us by the act of socialisation .
3 First , Europe 's defence needs are already satisfactorily met by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , which is inherently more effective than any alternative because it includes the transatlantic nations .
4 The application of dynamic input is more restricted than static recognition since it demands that the user have available a suitable input device at the time of writing and is obviously only applicable to handwritten text .
5 ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said .
6 Well I think you did very well much better than last time as it goes
7 This suggests that the solution of limestone in such areas must be controlled by components other than carbonic acid and it seems likely that organic acids play a major role .
8 Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason .
9 The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living .
10 Determination surged afresh through Emily 's consciousness , she would rebuild her father 's reputation and his business , she would show the world that Emily Grenfell was no weak-kneed lady of leisure , but as strong as any man when it came to business .
11 MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway .
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