Example sentences of "[adv] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposite it the passage was separated from the body of the church by a ten foot long grille in delicate wrought iron which gave a view up the nave to the cavernous glitter of the apse and the Lady Chapel on the right . |
| 2 | The barrage intensified : the explosions merged into a continuous crackling rumble of noise , the clifftop where Daak had stood was turned into a firework display of blinding flashes , and below it an avalanche of smoking rocks . |
| 3 | The building was completed by 457 B.C. , for Pausanias saw on the apex of the east pediment a golden shield or bowl with a Gorgoneion and below it an inscription ( still partly preserved ) saying that it was dedicated by the Spar tans , a tithe from the spoils taken from the Argives , Athenians and their allies at Tanagra , a battle which took place in that year . |
| 4 | And below it the |
| 5 | There is the indestructible Mandalay Hill with its kilometre-long covered stairways and remarkable pagodas , and below it the totally destroyed Royal Palace . |
| 6 | Above this surface the hydrogen would have been gaseous , and below it the hydrogen would have been liquid : Jupiter would have thus been covered in hydrogen oceans . |
| 7 | My stomach felt as if a huge wheel lurched and turned inside it every time she moved . |
| 8 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
| 9 | Imagine a space capsule in free fall near the Earth : inside it an astronaut strapped to one wall shines a beam of light horizontally at the opposite wall . |
| 10 | A Gothic cathedral is a complex design , but when standing inside it the individual knows where he or she is and how to reach any other point in it . |
| 11 | No cos it , it was straightforward I think and does n't look to be too much wasted , you , you know they leave all that so I 'll just it a quick , a quick , really a very quick hoover but I ca n't get to the bit where the waste carpet is but er yes it looks nice I think . |
| 12 | In the centre of one wall there was a Palladian mantelpiece in grey marble and above it a shield , bearing the coat of arms of the Challoner family . |
| 13 | As I walked in I was handed a leaflet bearing the image of an apocalyptic Pipeline wave and above it a line from Psalms 93:4 : ‘ The Lord on high is mightier than the mighty waves of the sea . ’ |
| 14 | There was a white lodge with a man in a booth and a turnstile , and above it a notice saying Bristol Zoo and a row of black silhouetted animals in wrought iron walking along in a line . |
| 15 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 16 | The ‘ link building ’ as it is aptly called , houses the warehouse , yarn store , dispatch , a new canteen , and above it a new sales office . |
| 17 | Not really a march , not even a brisk tramp , but a shuffling movement forward towards the opened gate : Holly saw the high wooden fence of vertical overlapping boards and above it the rise of steep angled roofs and in the corners were watch-towers built up on stilts with the platform reached by open ladder . |
| 18 | A discontinuity known as the Thurber Discontinuity occurs in some Pacific areas : above it the corals are younger than 6 000–8 600 years old , depending on the locality , and may represent Post-glacial coral growth when sea level rose above the discontinuity . |
| 19 | Is not it a disgrace , however , that the concierge service has been developed entirely out of Glasgow district council resources and that no money for it has come from the Scottish Office ? |
| 20 | With all the income from oil and from selling off the family silver , is not it a disgrace that manufacturing investment is now lower than in 1979 ? |
| 21 | Is not it a scandal that , in so doing , their feet will be kicked out from under them ? |
| 22 | Is not it a blight on Scotland that we can not provide homes for our homeless , including those who are still kids ? |
| 23 | Is not it a fact that the principal political risk against which British industry needs insurance is the risk of a Labour Government ? |
| 24 | Is not it a fact that doctors and nurses in France were on strike recently , and that in Italy patients have to ask relatives to bring in food because none is provided by the hospitals ? |
| 25 | Is not it a fact that he never learns from experience ? |
| 26 | Is not it a fact that the Labour party would throw out of the window all the grant-maintained schools and return them to the control of its friends in the town halls ? |
| 27 | Is not it a strong strategic interest of the United Kingdom to maintain an effective and comprehensive defence industrial base , in case international circumstances change ? |
| 28 | Is not it a pity that when we had the chance we did not finish the job ? |
| 29 | Is not it a sad reflection on the Government that after 12 years they have failed to provide the necessary skills training for our work force to make our industries competitive in world markets ? |
| 30 | Is not it a fact that the Government are robbing the poor to pay the rich ? |