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 | Small wonder that flocks of European and Scandinavian birds choose it as their resting point when migrating to more congenial climes each winter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | got the bloody money to do it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The church was n't particularly old , built on a high tide of Victorian prosperity like the tall houses surrounding it . |
| 16 | Conversely , Trade Indemnity maintained support for the Mirror Group , whose PAS-score trajectory shows it to be financially sound . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | The student will no doubt come across scores in which these numbers are exceeded ( e.g. among the works of Wagner , Strauss , Mahler , Stravinsky , Holst , etc. ) , but the above specification is , as we have said , the normal one and it is inadvisable for economic reasons to expand it unless , of course , extra instruments are absolutely indispensable for the full expression of the composer 's ideas . |
| 19 | She pulled off a fluffy piece and with sticky fingers offered it to Uncle Albert . |
| 20 | Most universities and higher technical institutions use it , and of course it maintains its position as the link language with the rest of the world . |
| 21 | That lash-up pedal near your right foot releases it . |
| 22 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 23 | After all , I had two Georgian coins to prove it . |
| 24 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 25 | We need the European Parliament to repair it , but in that regard the Maastricht treaty has comprehensively failed . |
| 26 | A bit of discreet negotiating sorted it out and the area chairman led Mrs Thatcher over to have a word with the local press on her way to the Battlebus , as we called the campaign coach . |
| 27 | What he could and did do , throughout the Algiers year , was to strengthen the CFLN 's position inside and outside France so that , whenever the operation began , the CFLN would be in the best position to preempt Allied attempts to marginalize it . |
| 28 | As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do . |
| 29 | Now that all the poll tax register computer equipment is installed , there is a strong case to let it be used to compile the electoral roll on the same basis . |
| 30 | And erm I think it 's a little bit of creative accountancy on their part in saying that and in fact putting that five hundred thousand elsewhere , and also they have erm done a further piece of creative accountancy in that the provision for pay and price increases they have reduced by one point five million , and the combined budget reduces it by half that figure . |