Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The succulent liberties it never had |
| 2 | The whole point is that if power falls into the wrong hands it usually hurts the railway cause . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But by the time we reached the foot of the fixed ropes it suddenly changed , with the wind dropping and the snow stopping . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | But for present purposes it really does n't matter which if either of them is the right definition . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Instead of trying to sort answers into meaningful groups it probably suits most people best if they use a percentage system . |
| 12 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 13 | Because much of Buick 's success is based on sales to the over-50s , its target customers will eventually be replaced by greying baby-boomers — the very customers it once steered away from . |
| 14 | Shakespearan drama is usually thought of as the embodiment of a truly popular art , whatever ‘ bourgeois ’ or aristocratic dimensions it also possesses . |
| 15 | And although the scheme has achieved its initial objectives it presently has 85 students at 11 organisations with the majority at the National Audit Office the Institute ‘ may need to re-examine its general approach to industrial and commercial organisations ’ , if it hopes to extend the range of its training opportunities . |
| 16 | Black-figure continues in use long for slight work , and for the prize vases at the Panathenaic games it far outlasts red figure , going deep into the Hellenistic age ; but from the generation after the Pioneers all major vase painters work primarily in red-figure . |
| 17 | When this logic was applied to the lower ranks of the armed forces it also carried the gloss that these men were less capable of intellectual control , being more animal and closer to nature . |
| 18 | With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity . |
| 19 | With new rolling stock to replace the unreliable and grubby 1950s locomotive-drawn carriages it now has a fleet of trains to equal the comforts of InterCity . |
| 20 | We are forced to conclude that while the main argument does confer qualified and partial authority on just governments it invariably fails to justify the claims to authority which these governments make for themselves . |
| 21 | Nevertheless sometimes it clearly has and other times it clearly has n't , so there does seem to be a line there , even if we do n't yet know , we certainly have to draw it . |
| 22 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 23 | While management attention was diverted into new projects it also missed obvious opportunities : the company took decades to figure out that it could sell work-wear as well as party dresses . |
| 24 | In the early Middle Ages it often meant kaleidoscopic change on the political scene but the new pattern ( unlike a kaleidoscope 's ) took some time to form . |
| 25 | It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers . |
| 26 | But as I say , I hate pedals , because the sound of a guitar through an amp is just a beautiful sound , and if you put it through too many other things it just gets weakened and made mock . |
| 27 | These northern immigrants soon set about reinventing the climate here , which is on the damp side , and investing it with therapeutic properties it hardly possesses . |
| 28 | ‘ In uncertain conditions it sometimes resulted in roads being gritted unnecessarily , and turning out the gritting teams costs £3,000 a time . |
| 29 | It was n't too hot at first , but after getting rid of certain actors it really has improved . |
| 30 | It sees no problem with adding the Alpha architecture to the MIPS Computer Systems Inc and Intel Corp-based systems it currently offers , a trail that DEC is already blazing in any case , but it has to figure out whether and how it will be able to address the window of opportunity it reckons the industry is now creating with the latest round of hardware and software announcements , and of course , how deep it would have to dig into its back pocket . |