Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub . |
| 2 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
| 3 | The proposal for a Rhyl relief road could mean yet another where it crosses the A525 . |
| 4 | With a startled squawk a rook flew from one tree to another where it perched complaining loudly . |
| 5 | ‘ Is this where it hurts ? ’ |
| 6 | To date , LanOptics has used distributors such as Datarange Communications Ltd , but following the establishment of the UK company , it is now to sell direct where it feels this is more strategic . |
| 7 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 8 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 9 | The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting . |
| 10 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 11 | If we 're to win Fairclough must mark flash well and Newsome and possibly Pemberton play out of their skins — Battyburn do n't just have flash although it does appear that way at times . |
| 12 | Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) . |
| 13 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 14 | Maybe it 's more exciting than it sounds . |
| 15 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 16 | Sun and wind are so free so it makes sense to use them where possible for power . |
| 17 | Moneymen hope that parliament will act faster on this than it has on company-law reform . |
| 18 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 19 | CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’ |
| 20 | The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears . |
| 21 | With modern knowledge , we now know that this design of horn would have reflected more sound than it captured ! |
| 22 | Secondly , many of the subjects in the list can be studied in pairs , in ‘ joint ’ or ‘ combined ’ subject degrees , so that the overall pattern of studies is less specialized than it appears . |
| 23 | When Travis seemed in need of another stiff drink , Sebastian served him liberally and , Travis 's tongue more free than it had ever been , he spoke of his love for Rosemary , his wish to marry her , but how because of her sense of propriety she would n't even let him take her out , or so much as mention her name to his family . |
| 24 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 25 | Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters . |
| 26 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 27 | This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags . |
| 28 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 29 | Again , this is easier than it seems and far easier to do than to put into words . |
| 30 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |