Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , the sex-differentiation pattern across the three inner-city areas is not as consistent for /a/ as it is for /Ε/; there is some indication that the young Clonard women are increasing their use of back realizations when compared with other female groups ( see table 4.10 ) . |
| 2 | We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep . |
| 3 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 4 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 5 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 6 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 7 | So , er it 's going to be first time you ever experience it , actually on , for real as it were ? |
| 8 | You 've then got to go below that and say , this was achieved through actual and it is the advertising making the public aware that we are prepared to employ females providing they 're good enough . |
| 9 | Well it does tell you for Central but it , up there . |
| 10 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 11 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 12 | Clearly woman is a philonym , but its meaning does not precisely match the presuppositions of pregnant because it has incompatibles ( e.g. ewe , mare ) which are also philonyms . |
| 13 | When taking aim , the fish also has to make allowance for refraction — the bending of light as it travels from the air into the water . |
| 14 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 15 | Mark Garner , a consultant with the channel 's parent company , Continental Television , said : ‘ The extra three nights will have films in Italian , German and French instead of English but it should n't be a problem for British viewers because dialogue is n't our strong point . ’ |
| 16 | The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers . |
| 17 | I think we 're being kind of unfair when it comes to football pa fans on the terraces because the majority of people who go and watch football are not hooligans . |
| 18 | It was an Arctic blast screaming from the east , picking up extra degrees of cold as it drove over the frozen white surface . |
| 19 | It 's kind of stupid but it 's kind of funny if you know what I mean cos the baby do n't talk and as soon as the Mum and Dad 's out of the room it 's let's go and find the chocolate . |
| 20 | We all it is ba , well I say all it is this bloody great strip right be between the ceiling and the walls , the right length of corridor and the manager see it and he said look that should be shiny sort of like and it 's all pitted so he said you 'll have to go up here he said and do it all with steel abrasive said fair enough . |
| 21 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 22 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 23 | So I mean it , it 's obviously a lot more sort of complicated as it seems on the outside . |
| 24 | As minister , he issued instructions to vignerons on the advantages of adding sugar at the time of pressing and it was the vignerons of the more northerly winemaking regions , like Champagne , who benefited the most . |
| 25 | One is that the process of falling in love is as different from the process of loving as it is from any other experience in life . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the Frankish court , where Alcuin now resided , was favourably disposed towards Aethelred and it may be that Frankish support was what enabled a prolongation of his rule . |
| 27 | He took a lot of convincing that it was , indeed , the same fish . |
| 28 | The man took a lot of convincing that it would not be well unless it was stitched ; and when John said that he would pay , there was a further argument . |
| 29 | It was considerably less straight than that of Sarazen as it clattered into the trees on the right but nevertheless rebounded on to the fairway short of the bunker from where he managed a four . |
| 30 | It 's kind of scary but it 's also what we 've wanted . ’ |