Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 2 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 3 | Even then , there is a good case for bringing it before a court so that each side is heard and specific boundaries are laid down . |
| 4 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 5 | Cunnilingus is a marginal case but since it involves genital contact and may involve a form of penetration , there is a case for placing it within the more serious category . |
| 6 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 7 | ‘ For these reasons I think there is a fairly strong case for marketing it as a health product but it will also probably be considered a luxury , ’ Mrs Rowan added . |
| 8 | That is when the strength of his emerging side , and England 's case for making it to the 1994 World Cup finals , will be truly tested . |
| 9 | He 'll introduce proposals for abolishing it by the end of the year . |
| 10 | When , turning , he reached the part about finding it behind the standing stone , he revealed the gleaming decoration . |
| 11 | We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division . |
| 12 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 13 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 14 | A simple microscopic examination of some vaginal discharge , suspended in a salt solution , will give the diagnosis in most cases , and there are also reliable methods of culturing it in the laboratory . |
| 15 | Any response which is offered as a result of reading it in a work of literary criticism would be unacceptable . |
| 16 | The first , noted by Labov with respect to the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies , is that however good the data there is no way in the absence of a supplementary broader study of locating it in a wider sociolinguistic context . |
| 17 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 18 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 19 | It was sensitive stuff and he had no intention of discussing it with the Bristol media . |
| 20 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 22 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 23 | Some talk of extending it until the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in early July ; others favour calling an extraordinary session in September . |
| 24 | ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London . |
| 25 | The islands had always been a smugglers ' paradise , and had proved a perfect place to stockpile cocaine before running it across the narrow Straits of Florida to the waiting American markets . |
| 26 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 27 | Most reckon that , with the holding in Hanson 's balance sheet as a fixed asset , Lord Hanson will probably hold on for maybe 18 months before placing it with an alternative international predator . |
| 28 | A private motorist who ‘ clocks ’ his car before selling it to a car dealer , may well find that he is guilty under section 23 , since it may well be his act which causes the car dealer to commit an offence under section 1 , Olgiersson v. Kitching ( 1986 D.C. ) . |
| 29 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 30 | IN the middle 80s , snooker was booming and I was doing my best to cash-in on selling it around the world . |