Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three methods being considered , this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water . |
| 2 | Its working was rather fitful and it failed in a couple of astounding thunderstorms they had . |
| 3 | The incidence of board theft is thankfully low but it does happen . |
| 4 | This central finding of the study was intensely controversial since it implied , firstly , that the USSR showed signs of fundamental weakness and was less of a ‘ threat ’ and , secondly , it appeared to run counter to the view of some econometricians that developing countries , especially those purchasing advanced foreign technology in large quantities , must eventually catch up . |
| 5 | It was dead right but it gave me a tough act to follow and only Joyce 's famous ‘ George , do n't do that ’ would fit the bill . |
| 6 | You become excited when you discover an entry from a brand leader but descend into despondency when you find that large , marketing-led organisations can be incredibly sloppy when it comes to presenting written reports . |
| 7 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 8 | Although it is less widely used than it once was , it is found in some bronchodilators and cough mixtures . |
| 9 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 10 | In a dinner queue yes , someone collapsing and dying in the dinner queue is rather absurd and it 's also very |
| 11 | While his arguments about capital punishment are still of great relevance , it now seems rather odd that it could have been thought necessary to have to argue against the use of torture for extracting confessions . |
| 12 | They say the human brain is at its most receptive when it is young . |
| 13 | Eric Hammond of the Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union said in The Daily Telegraph : ’ It is so fundamentally wrong that it will increasingly threaten Labour 's prospects of a national victory . ’ |
| 14 | The impact of computers on almost every aspect of industrial life has been most marked and it would be strange if R&D and project management had escaped . |
| 15 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 16 | MERSEYSIDE parents are among the most generous when it comes to giving pocket money , a survey has revealed . |
| 17 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 18 | The middle of the passage was , however , rather different since it concerned a motorcyclist 's deliberations about the nature of empiricism , and it was considerably more difficult to understand . |
| 19 | Although a notice inside clearly stated its capacity to carry three persons , he was secretly afraid that it would be inadequate to bear his vast bulk . |
| 20 | Mrs Letts is terrifically brave but it 's an awful tragedy . |
| 21 | All that is rather peculiar but it can be digested and lived with . |
| 22 | The curve is , however , something altogether different since it is the effective , as opposed to the notional , demand for labour function : its position is determined by the effective demand for goods which will , in turn , depend upon the magnitude of . |
| 23 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 24 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 25 | A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’ |
| 26 | It is not wholly clear whether it is permissible for the tribunal of fact to take into account the surrounding circumstances and the conduct of any person defending himself in assessing the level of violence being used , and the frightening quality of the incident . |
| 27 | The contract hire scheme is by far the most popular and it attacts over 90% of new car applications . |
| 28 | This view appears disarmingly general but widely acceptable when it is stated as the idea that any economy has to be seen as only one part of a structured world system . |
| 29 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 30 | Indeed it was runner-up in the European Car of the Year Award , which is only right because it looks and feels like a European car . |