Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub .
2 To date , LanOptics has used distributors such as Datarange Communications Ltd , but following the establishment of the UK company , it is now to sell direct where it feels this is more strategic .
3 The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting .
4 But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years .
5 If we 're to win Fairclough must mark flash well and Newsome and possibly Pemberton play out of their skins — Battyburn do n't just have flash although it does appear that way at times .
6 Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) .
7 Maybe it 's more exciting than it sounds .
8 Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign .
9 Sun and wind are so free so it makes sense to use them where possible for power .
10 The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers .
11 CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’
12 The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears .
13 With modern knowledge , we now know that this design of horn would have reflected more sound than it captured !
14 Secondly , many of the subjects in the list can be studied in pairs , in ‘ joint ’ or ‘ combined ’ subject degrees , so that the overall pattern of studies is less specialized than it appears .
15 When Travis seemed in need of another stiff drink , Sebastian served him liberally and , Travis 's tongue more free than it had ever been , he spoke of his love for Rosemary , his wish to marry her , but how because of her sense of propriety she would n't even let him take her out , or so much as mention her name to his family .
16 John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level .
17 Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters .
18 Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago .
19 This may sound a silly question , since this book assumes that its readers are looking for a place to live in the British Isles , but it is more sensible than it sounds .
20 It 's completely cordless so it goes where you go , and because it operates on both batteries and mains , you 're not tied to the nearest plug .
21 The Clause was wrong if it meant schools could not have proper and adequate discussion , but if it meant that local authorities should not promote homosexuality then Mr Roberts would support it .
22 First of all we must rid ourselves of the belief that punishment is wrong if it causes pain or inconvenience and does not have the full interest of the criminal at heart .
23 The demonstration should not go wrong if it has been adequately rehearsed beforehand .
24 It is the dies incertus an , certus quando of the glossators : it is not clear that the day will actually ever come , even though it is clear if it does when it will be .
25 Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ?
26 It would be equally grave if it had been a burglary charge but he was facing one of the most serious allegations you could make .
27 ‘ It may get rusty with wet if it stays there all night .
28 Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains .
29 That this would be an inappropriate objection is evident from the fact that the Punch cartoon I mentioned earlier would have been almost as funny if it had figured a human fisherman rather than a kingfisher .
30 And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) .
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