Example sentences of "a [noun sg] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow . |
| 2 | The continued argument about transport development shows how important a part it still plays in the economy of the US . |
| 3 | ‘ If somebody 's already used a break it just means you 've got to use it in a better way . |
| 4 | Ben is described variously as a ‘ merchant 's clerk ’ and as an ‘ outrider ’ , itself a dialect term used extensively in Somerset and elsewhere to describe a tradesman 's travelling agent — a meaning it still carried in New Zealand , for example , well into the 20th century . |
| 5 | As a body it naturally reflected the dominant interests in society , though it was prone to being strongly buffeted by conflicts of interest in matters of land , property and amenity . |
| 6 | It took the merest instant , but as a process it never ceased to fascinate her . |
| 7 | With such a tool it only needs a little extra pressure to severely weaken the main trace line . |
| 8 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 9 | SGI was criticised at the time for the price it was willing to pay , a price it later trimmed . |
| 10 | Oh he 's not a character it only works in |
| 11 | As a by-product it also finds the shortest paths from s to all other vertices in the graph . |
| 12 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 13 | NO MATTER how talented or hardworking you are , if you 're a woman it always takes extra effort and drive to succeed in business . |
| 14 | But despite being a supplement it also replaces what it signifies . |
| 15 | In fact if you concentrate attention on a habit it often causes the habitual behaviour pattern to break down . |
| 16 | Last time , Congress got just six seats out of 42 in a state it once claimed as its almost exclusive territory . |
| 17 | Those who were seriously engaged in geology or biology could not allow such reasoning either , although in a sense it only represented the idea that science can not deal with origins , carried to an extreme . |
| 18 | We believe that the level is about right , although in a sense it always has to be arbitrary . |
| 19 | In its capacity to preserve a message it far outdoes tablets of stone . |
| 20 | THE wedding of red-hot lovers Kirsty and Karl Willey was such a scorcher it nearly set the town alight . |
| 21 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 22 | In the one set of cases , the adjective is used not merely as a subordinate element in qualification but also to apply a property directly to the entity designated by the noun , the head word of the phrase ; in the other the adjective mentions the same property but it is merely , in some way , to be associated with that entity ; it is certainly intended to assist in entity-identification — and that is why it is there — but as a property it actually belongs to someone or something else . |
| 23 | As the season drew to a close it actively encouraged early retirement and voluntary redundancy amongst its older or less productive workers and filled the resulting vacancies with the most productive temporary workers . |
| 24 | There are so many colourful characters within the jazz spectrum and as a form it really demands that you get in touch with your own personal self ; if you do n't have your own sound in jazz then basically it 's nothing . |
| 25 | The complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our U S council in the U S courts , in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at Heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not . |
| 26 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 27 | Retching , vomiting and desperately trying to rub its face clean , the animal learns a lesson it never forgets . |
| 28 | When you have these on either side of a path it often indicates an ancient trackway or road of some description . |
| 29 | It should n't really affect things er a lot it just makes things slightly more convenient . |
| 30 | Actually in erm our bathroom and when we have a bath and a shower it always runs all down |