Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are extra shopping centres and the Lady Godiva statue now has a marquee-like canopy swamping it . |
| 2 | As one of the party 's rural Deputies put it : ‘ If Ray proves he can do the toughest job in the EC , and he has , would n't it be foolish not to give him the opportunity to run this little country of ours ? ’ |
| 3 | During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) . |
| 4 | Stunned by a Thameside painting by Whistler , it was only later that Strayhorn discovered it was actually a view of Battersea Bridge that he 'd admired ! |
| 5 | Small wonder that flocks of European and Scandinavian birds choose it as their resting point when migrating to more congenial climes each winter . |
| 6 | As that money disappears it will inevitably put more of a burden on the union . |
| 7 | A false belief that p has no fact that p to cause it . |
| 8 | The biggest complaint was prison food , with just one in eight prisoners saying it was good . |
| 9 | Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the effect of synonymous substitution and the continuing relevance of their literal meanings make it unsatisfactory simply to call them ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 11 | Far from being sport , it 's his job to keep herds in check and make sure these ‘ sportsmen ’ do n't leave an animal wounded and in pain from their hopeless attempts to shoot it , and his respect for living things is acute . |
| 12 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ The fact that American Airlines started a new route in the middle of the economic recession meant it was slow to take off . |
| 14 | However , a degree of sensitivity is required as the purchaser may need their assistance in any due diligence exercise it is undertaking , and to effect a smooth handover of the business . |
| 15 | On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’ |
| 16 | Yet that weakness makes it extremely difficult for Patten to make any concessions on his plan . |
| 17 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 18 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 19 | Fifty P bet it 'll be for him ! |
| 20 | ‘ If so , give it a little milk to keep it quiet . ’ |
| 21 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 22 | ‘ Are yer sure it 's what that geezer said it was ? ’ |
| 23 | got the bloody money to do it . |
| 24 | This might mean that a firm was ‘ released ’ from ties to traditional , skilled ( and often well-unionized ) labour ; the technical change freed it to seek out cheaper and less well-organized labour elsewhere . |
| 25 | The church was n't particularly old , built on a high tide of Victorian prosperity like the tall houses surrounding it . |
| 26 | Conversely , Trade Indemnity maintained support for the Mirror Group , whose PAS-score trajectory shows it to be financially sound . |
| 27 | The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice . |
| 28 | If we ask where that power comes from , the answer is broadly that Parliament claimed it and the courts recognised it . |
| 29 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 30 | Whilst other space agencies have equally ambitious plans , they remain as blueprints , or , as one European scientist puts it , ‘ pie-in-the-sky-eyes-in-the-sky . ’ |