Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heading was subdivided into eight separate sections on such subjects as slavery , women , Plato 's ideal state and the mysteries , and Nietzsche was sufficiently interested in it to produce a draft version for the bulk of the sequence . |
| 2 | The firmness of the French reaction was probably inevitable , given the circumstances , but it was also highly dangerous for it meant that if and when Bismarck sought to provoke France he knew that he had exactly the cause he needed . |
| 3 | It was in the midst of these preliminary discussions that his lordship entrusted me with a mission sufficiently unusual for it to have remained in my memory to this day , alongside those other more obviously unforgettable occurrences that were to take place during that remarkable week . |
| 4 | It is relatively easy for Rome to control the bishops , exceedingly hard for it to control anyone else . |
| 5 | St Michael 's Church — ‘ a gem of Baroque Moravian architecture ’ — was firmly shut and St Wenceslas Cathedral , founded in 1109 and rebuilt at the end of the last century on a vast neo-Gothic scale , was dark , impressive and so cold inside it made your head ache . |
| 6 | dinner , I 'm So full up it hurts , I |
| 7 | I felt my face go red , as red as it was physically possible for it to go red , and a surge of hate and rage and fear swept through me from nerve ending to brain cell to nerve ending . |
| 8 | Whilst the press must not overstep the bounds set , inter alia , for the ‘ protection of the reputation of others ’ , it is nevertheless incumbent on it to impart information and ideas on political issues just as on those in other areas of public interest . |
| 9 | A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain by P.A. Cowan ( London 1985 ) is , in its field , most valuable for it contains a gazetteer . |
| 10 | I 'm just rather despairing about it happening . |
| 11 | There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism . |
| 12 | But when the church has spoken in these terms , saying in effect that women should not be discriminated against in the world , it becomes all the more problematical for it to appear suddenly to turn around and declare that women may not be ordained in the church ! |
| 13 | It is , indeed , politically more difficult for it threatens the very essence of capitalism . |
| 14 | Not all transmitters excite the post synaptic membrane , some inhibit it so that it is more difficult for it to carry an impulse . |
| 15 | It has been more difficult for it to investigate the non-physical nature of prehistoric society . |
| 16 | ( vi ) Rejection by the other House It is rare for one House to reject outright a Bill passed by the other , more common for it to pass the Bill with amendments . |
| 17 | The arousal I 've always thought that er that you should n't be nervous but you always are but obviously as you 're nervous when you do a whole host of things and nerves as you become more skilled at it go away er and I 'd assume that like most things that the nerves will totally disappear and was somewhat surprised to find out that you 're always aroused |
| 18 | It is also sociologically misleading for it implies that the bulk of black people are new to this country . |
| 19 | This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings . |
| 20 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 21 | " The only safe and correct approach is not to allow an injunction to remain , even for a single day , if it was clearly wrong for it to have been granted . " |
| 22 | Those of us who live in north-east Kent have always believed that there should be a fast link , and we have been perfectly happy for it to go through south London , to where our constituents who will benefit from the link wish to travel . |
| 23 | The question was out even before she was really aware of it forming in her mind , but if he was surprised by her sudden change of tack , he did n't show it . |
| 24 | The orange tree is particularly interesting for it produces three different-smelling essences with differing therapeutic properties : neroli ( blossom ) , petit-grain ( leaves ) and orange ( rind ) . |
| 25 | But it was surely natural for it to feel a flutter of impatience with a fading tradition of Edwardian Modernism that had once invited the educated reader to find metaphysical foundations to his faith before he could believe life meant anything or was worth living . |
| 26 | When the crack is very shallow it is consuming more energy as surface energy than it is releasing as relaxed strain energy and therefore the conditions are energetically unfavourable for it to propagate . |
| 27 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 28 | When the inspectorate is reduced to 175 , it will be virtually impossible for it to produce a report with anything like the quality of those produced in the past . |
| 29 | Indeed it would have been quite impossible for it to have adopted any other attitude . |
| 30 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |