Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
2 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
3 | I seemed to remember statuary and flowers — hibiscus or something flaming red , roses maybe , in great urns — and there were doubtless other bedrooms leading off it with similar softly sliding glass doors . |
4 | There 's a process getting the kids used to it with dummy running so that the picture you get is a realistic one . |
5 | Beyond , the river was a polished blue and the feluccas glided across it like pink-winged swans . |
6 | Inside the wrist was a yellowish label with the words Mireille , gantière embroidered on it in blue silk . |
7 | First , it is clear that balancing necessitates some judgment as to how much we value a particular interest , and that people may well disagree as to the weight accorded to it in any particular instance . |
8 | One immediate difficulty is that the weight attached to it by different historians has varied enormously . |
9 | This tells us two things : there is a conception of what amounts to trust wording ; but there is a willingness to depart from it in certain circumstances . |
10 | It can also order the Chief Constable to report to it on any particular matter ( s.5(4) ) . |
11 | The Estonian government at the beginning of August accused the central USSR authorities of attempting to rob the republic of the economic sovereignty granted to it in 1989 [ see pp. 36825 ; 37045 ] . |
12 | It occurred to me that you might plan it as one great central shed with bays let off it on each side . |
13 | It was as long ago as 1863 that Lister pointed out , ‘ the real cause of the coagulation of blood is the influence exerted on it by ordinary matter … the contact of which effects a disposition to coagulate ’ . |
14 | Go to Bethlehem today , and in spite of the unrest there , it has that undeniable atmosphere of prayer and sanctity poured into it by millions of pilgrims and visitors . |
15 | A variation on the ring topology is the ‘ star ’ topology , where either the file server or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation . |
16 | A star topology is where the file server ( or a special network ‘ exchange ’ box ) sits in the middle and cable radiates from it to each workstation |
17 | He dipped the flannel in the water and bathed the swollen joint not once but many times , leaving the flannel wrapped around it for long seconds each time . |
18 | Indeed , arguments about the relationship constituted much of the core debate as is evidenced by the attention given to it by classical figures such as Weber and Durkheim . |
19 | More precisely , it is the conception of something which has the nature assigned to it above all by the independent nomic conditional ( 5 ) . |
20 | And it is the healthy CV system that can cope easily with all the strains placed upon it by modern living . |
21 | " Certificate of completion " has the meaning assigned to it by 5.9 of the Building ( Scotland ) Act 1959 ( s.29 ( I ) of the Act ) . |
22 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
23 | Acknowledgement of the fact of this fundamental need for a ‘ god ’ , and the need to provide for it in any social order , can be the vital factor in finding a way to ease the sufferings of the world . |
24 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
25 | Although there had been considerable growth in Russian manufacturing industry between 1880 and 1914 , by any criteria it was still quite inadequate to cope with the strains imposed on it by modern industrialised warfare . |
26 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
27 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
28 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
29 | Deaconess Tilley glanced at it with simulated interest . |
30 | THE ROLE of the police in South Africa needs a careful eye trained on it in these changing and unstable times , and Gavin Cawthra 's booklet does a fine job in relating the story so far . |