Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We understand from the Office of Fair Trading and the Consumer Credit Sub-Committee of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration that — although there is clearly opportunity for it within the close-knit personal relationship between the check trader and the customer — exploitation of customers seems very rare . |
| 2 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 3 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 4 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 5 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |
| 6 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 7 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
| 8 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 9 | There was only one stroke in it after the first round ( Thomson 68 ; Thomas 69 ) , so it was n't cut-and-dried . |
| 10 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 11 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 12 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 13 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 14 | The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session . |
| 15 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 16 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 18 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 19 | What is certain is that the corn milling firm of Reynolds and Allen were using at least part of it during the 1860s . |
| 20 | Is he aware that what he achieved , or failed to achieve , might please the little Englanders behind him but will be a tragedy for the people of the United Kingdom and the Scottish part of it through the 1990s ? |
| 21 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 22 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 23 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 24 | We obtain a national picture of crime and people 's attitudes towards it from the three BCS , but for their critics these surveys have emphasised this national picture at the expense of the inner cities , which suffered more than their fair share of crime . |
| 25 | There is no reliable diagnostic test for it in the living animal . |
| 26 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 27 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
| 28 | The Precision in a way is too middly , but the thing about the Jazz is that you can get more top and bottom from it at the same time , and that 's the sound I like . |
| 29 | Keynes began work on it during the worst year of the slump , under a government which had slammed the door on his favourite project of public works . |
| 30 | He also said he had no desire to tackle the principle of comprehensive education : ‘ I do n't see any need for it at the present time . |