Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pontiac crouched for a whole foot lower than it did before , and General Motors shareholders were beginning to complain at annual meetings of bumping their heads or not being able to wear a hat in a Buick . |
| 2 | It is a little bit weak and it lacks a bit of punch . |
| 3 | To ta just to make it look a bit respectable because it 's a church , they 're using that part of it . |
| 4 | ‘ Being a Pisces , I normally love rain , but this shirt 's a bit see-through when it 's wet . ’ |
| 5 | Erm I put that in In practice it 's a bit unnecessary because it is not enforceable . |
| 6 | It struck me as a bit odd that it never seemed to leave the ground . |
| 7 | Mr Kettering going off without the dog and his wife bringing it round to you — it all seems a bit odd if it 's so devoted to him . ’ |
| 8 | And and then er I took it to the station as well , but I could n't get many other voices , they were a bit garbled but it works really well ! |
| 9 | She finds our convent hateful because it cuts her off from the light , the air , and the sun to which she is accustomed . |
| 10 | The language is a bit spicy but it did n't put me off in the slightest . ’ |
| 11 | Unfortunately he 's still a bit dozy when it comes to starting . ’ |
| 12 | After some 10 days we received our order back from Bailey Distribution Ltd with a memo asking for a new cheque made out to them , since they could not transfer the original cheque due because it was crossed . |
| 13 | Yeah , ultimately they might wan na end up with erm a mouse driver high but it 's alright . |
| 14 | Well I do , I do them all , try and do them all a bit different but it 'll be something on that line . |
| 15 | If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's |
| 16 | The one on test here is a bit different as it 's a Windows product . |
| 17 | It was a bit different as it turned out . |
| 18 | He had a reputation for being a bit slow-witted but it did n't perturb him in the least . |
| 19 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 20 | True religion makes spiritual progress easier because it provides a vocabulary , a structure and a community , all of which can help people to attend to this dimension . |
| 21 | In the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 22 | Yes but why did Hitachi Data Systems Ltd choose the name Osiris for its new mainframe Unix combination ( see front ) : in the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 23 | The removal of the box at Pinmore made his photograph possible as it gave an unimpeded view of the subject . |
| 24 | It would be better than the ferries , cost travellers no more and ‘ would be toll free before it was ever likely to be publicly funded ’ . |
| 25 | At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule . |
| 26 | The jurisdiction of the respective courts is set out in Chapter 2 and it will have been observed that there is an overlap between them . |
| 27 | This definition was first developed and used in Chapter 2 and it can be applied directly without alteration to equities . |
| 28 | Stevedoring is provided by Larne Harbour Limited and it is the company 's proud boast that customers need only make one phone call to complete their requirements . |
| 29 | This aspect of the subject is pursued in more detail in Chapter 7 but it is worth stressing the value of the library as neutral territory . |
| 30 | This is covered by David Robinson in Chapter 7 and it is only necessary here to emphasise the need for some of the partners ( and to a lesser extent senior managers ) to allocate time to financial control and administration . |