Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 2 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 3 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 4 | The shape of a tapir makes it possible for it to push its way through the thick undergrowth at considerable speed . |
| 5 | Then we need to see that as Jesus prayed for it , it is possible for it to occur ! |
| 6 | By establishing the Centre in an academic institution it will be possible for it to benefit from the other resources of the University and at the same time enable the knowledge gained from the research to be linked directly to social work training . |
| 7 | In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work . |
| 8 | Well I think she could be right about it starting off as that , I do n't know . |
| 9 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 10 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 11 | Do you welcome the flats that are c the fact the flats are coming down or are you sorry about it do you feel ? |
| 12 | No you do n't have to , there 's no , there 's no rea there 's no , there 's no thing that makes someone but it , it if you 're pissed off it does n't , you do n't have to have a special reason to be pissed off you can just be pissed off like you can just be annoyed , it 's like saying you 're annoyed when someone nicks your towels . |
| 13 | This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings . |
| 14 | Makes the ground too dry for it to grow on . |
| 15 | The orange tree is particularly interesting for it produces three different-smelling essences with differing therapeutic properties : neroli ( blossom ) , petit-grain ( leaves ) and orange ( rind ) . |
| 16 | The debate about the blocking of acute beds by elderly people is interesting for it calls into question how the health care needs of older people are evaluated . |
| 17 | " The only safe and correct approach is not to allow an injunction to remain , even for a single day , if it was clearly wrong for it to have been granted . " |
| 18 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 19 | The instructions about practising will have been given while he was under hypnosis ( although he will , of course , have heard and understood every word ) and so , because he is willing for it to happen , they will be firmly planted in his subconscious mind . |
| 20 | The woodwind parts are too high for it to double effectively . ) |
| 21 | Last night , Gen Noriega 's armed militia were still setting up roadblocks in the city 's main financial district , while the new civilian government , headed by Mr Guillermo Endara , was kept under guard by the US military , which said it was too risky for it to appear in public . |
| 22 | In fact , Lyness got light off it to begin with . |
| 23 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 24 | There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism . |
| 25 | The last thing she saw , as her heart that had the little something wrong with it collapsed , was the bag with the dress in it , stuck between a pair of trousered legs . |
| 26 | And the next time you buy something from a shop and find there 's something wrong with it do n't just jump to conclusions that you 've been deliberately cheated . |
| 27 | One scuffed heavy shoe is braced against the floor , the other dangles in space , with the turn-up riding high above it to reveal a thick grey sock crumpled around the ankle . |
| 28 | The heading was subdivided into eight separate sections on such subjects as slavery , women , Plato 's ideal state and the mysteries , and Nietzsche was sufficiently interested in it to produce a draft version for the bulk of the sequence . |
| 29 | Ceauşescu was right : a few years later , the US Congress made freeing trade with the Soviet Union dependent on it permitting emigration , particularly of Soviet Jews . |
| 30 | The firmness of the French reaction was probably inevitable , given the circumstances , but it was also highly dangerous for it meant that if and when Bismarck sought to provoke France he knew that he had exactly the cause he needed . |