Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 2 | When taking aim , the fish also has to make allowance for refraction — the bending of light as it travels from the air into the water . |
| 3 | It 's kind of stupid but it 's kind of funny if you know what I mean cos the baby do n't talk and as soon as the Mum and Dad 's out of the room it 's let's go and find the chocolate . |
| 4 | I think we 're being kind of unfair when it comes to football pa fans on the terraces because the majority of people who go and watch football are not hooligans . |
| 5 | It 's kind of scary but it 's also what we 've wanted . ’ |
| 6 | Adversity breeds a special kind of Christian and it has remarkable members who devote their lives to helping , for instance , people abandoned by the state , such as punks , conscientious objectors or would-be emigrants . |
| 7 | This is most common in the case of overlapping when it can be falsely assumed that part of a continuous form is obscured from view . |
| 8 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 9 | Research has indicated that police are more likely to perceive an act as delinquent if it occurs in a low-income inner city area . |
| 10 | The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers . |
| 11 | Public opinion turned slowly against bread in general because it was considered " fattening " . |
| 12 | The stated aims of the organisation continue to be those originally associated with the NFoL , namely : ‘ the advancement and propagation of the Christian Gospel in particular as it bears on or affects national or individual morality and ethics ’ . |
| 13 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 14 | We all it is ba , well I say all it is this bloody great strip right be between the ceiling and the walls , the right length of corridor and the manager see it and he said look that should be shiny sort of like and it 's all pitted so he said you 'll have to go up here he said and do it all with steel abrasive said fair enough . |
| 15 | So I mean it , it 's obviously a lot more sort of complicated as it seems on the outside . |
| 16 | One is that the process of falling in love is as different from the process of loving as it is from any other experience in life . |
| 17 | 5 Format QM — Lets you format lots of floppies without fuss and even puts a picture up on-screen while it does it . |
| 18 | " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ? |
| 19 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 20 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 21 | I also believe that the editorial staff of the magazine are open to criticism in allowing the article to printed as it was . |
| 22 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 23 | It was stressed to us that pupils having difficulty with English because it was their second language should not be equated with pupils with other special educational needs . |
| 24 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 25 | It is far easier to prevent behaviour problems from developing than it is to correct them once they have become entrenched habits . |
| 26 | If it 's a bank account where you 've both got to sign before you can draw the money , one dies the other ca n't draw it out because you ca n't have two signatures so it 's tenants in common and it would be split in accordance with whatever the agreed proportions were . |
| 27 | Similarly , the interest of one party can be increased ( for instance , where the husband and wife hold the property as tenants in common and it is agreed , or ordered by the court , that the wife 's share should be increased ) . |
| 28 | Though this project is principally concerned with the city of Edinburgh its relevance is much wider , to British cities in general and it is expected that it will demonstrate how land-owners , builders , house factors and other interests in property were able to control the pace and pattern of urban development largely to their own ends without recognising the long term consequences for the physical shape and quality of the housing and building stock and its long term impact on modern society in terms of street lay outs , maintenance and repairs , and the availability of open spaces . |
| 29 | There are few parts of Prestel where you can get information of this quality for free and it is heartening to know that the service has been gradually tailored to users ' needs by the feedback AIS has received from the past year . |
| 30 | In our hands , double dose omeprazole ( 20 mg twice daily ) plus amoxicillin 2 g for two weeks is at least equally effective in eradicating H pylori in gastric as it is in duodenal ulcer disease . |