Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |
| 2 | Indeed , and by statute , in some senses it only begins . |
| 3 | The succulent liberties it never had |
| 4 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 5 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
| 6 | The whole point is that if power falls into the wrong hands it usually hurts the railway cause . |
| 7 | While this obviously placed great limitations on the evidence available to social anthropologists it also spared them.the problems of trying to find out what help they could get from documentary sources . |
| 8 | In such cases it usually means that a man has , at some time in the past , hurt the cat in question . |
| 9 | But by the time we reached the foot of the fixed ropes it suddenly changed , with the wind dropping and the snow stopping . |
| 10 | Such data could provide a better understanding of how pneumonia fits into the course of the chronic diseases it often accompanies , and thereby form a basis for therapeutic decision-making . |
| 11 | On such occasions it often seems foolish to intervene , for nature has a way of eliminating stragglers . |
| 12 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 13 | Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads . |
| 14 | Having seen the damage that a pack of hounds will do to domestic pets it far outweighs in my mind Chairman , any damage that a fox can do , that a fox hound can stop them doing . |
| 15 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 16 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 17 | Even after all these years it still carries an authentic medieval flavour . |
| 18 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 19 | Apart from these difficulties it soon became only too obvious that the drugs could be unexpectedly toxic . |
| 20 | For younger mothers it usually comes as a surprise , an unintended consequence of a past or current sexual relationship , and an event for which there has been little planning or preparation . |
| 21 | By progressive expansion of the diagonal minors it therefore appears that the two leading terms in the full expansion are unc Now if we write the determinant as unc the leading terms are unc Hence unc Example II Let unc and on expansion unc Then unc Theorem III — The product of the eigenvalues of A is |
| 22 | In its nine chapters and 234 pages it clearly bridges the gap between psychological theories and nursing practice . |
| 23 | In its cheaper forms it still suffers from the classical trouble of intolerable leakage in bad weather , especially because of the much higher loads put into the hull by modern rigs . |
| 24 | But for present purposes it really does n't matter which if either of them is the right definition . |
| 25 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |
| 26 | But , like all machines it also has a mechanical structure . |
| 27 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 28 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 29 | Even in purely political terms it never seems to have occurred to Polybius and Posidonius that the command of a foreign language meant power to the Romans . |
| 30 | Instead of trying to sort answers into meaningful groups it probably suits most people best if they use a percentage system . |