Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 2 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 3 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 4 | One believer in the limits of law puts it like this : ‘ laws are often ineffective , doomed to stultification almost at birth , doomed by the over-ambitions of the legislator and the under-provision of the necessary requirements for an effective law , such as adequate preliminary survey , communication , acceptance , and enforcement machinery . ’ |
| 5 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |
| 6 | Now there there is the scheme by the Department of Transport to upgrade it to dual it u as far to Malton and then beyond subsequently . |
| 7 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 8 | In the productivity of Lake Vanda phosphorus is a limiting element ( Vincent and Vincent , 1982 ) , because of gravitational losses into the sediment and lack of turbulence to return it to general circulation . |
| 9 | The latter was begun in 1617 for William and Mary White , but rebuilt in 1633 ; when the iron-founding and gentry family of Freeman acquired it in 1666 , they refashioned the interior with some of the finest stucco work in Sussex , masking the simpler tastes of its earlier owners . |
| 10 | There are also these privatization a lot of husbands and wives bought these shares of privatization had it in joint names , well that tax will have been deducted and can be reclaimed also , so er this was a change that came about with independent taxation . |
| 11 | As one exponent of individualism puts it with unusual explicitness , |
| 12 | ’ It took quite a lot of resolution to utter it at all . |
| 13 | Recently , the society offered to give its building to New York City in exchange for a revision of status entitling it to city-provided operating funds . |
| 14 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 15 | Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction . |
| 16 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 17 | Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month . |
| 18 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 19 | It later passed to John Peach who in turn sold it in 1786 to the infant Canal Company . |
| 20 | If you feel further clarification is required BEFORE setting investigations in hand obtain it at this stage — otherwise unnecessary investigative duplication may arise . |
| 21 | The most familiar representative of this type of person is the public benefactor , who with the utmost aggressiveness and energy demands money from one set of people in order to give it to another . |
| 22 | These instruments are used to make straight cuts across the embryo in order to subdivide it into particular regions or fragments . |
| 23 | The second kind of implicatures come about by overtly and blatantly not following some maxim , in order to exploit it for communicative purposes . |
| 24 | It , too , must now be separately assessed in order to distinguish it from that part of general damages that bears interest — namely , damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities ( Pickett v British Rail Engineering Limited [ 1980 ] AC 136 ) . |
| 25 | In fact , the term ‘ interest ’ is applied to a claim in order to distinguish it from other claims , usually with the implication that the claim labelled an interest deserves a remedy . |
| 26 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 27 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 28 | APB chairman Bill Morrison stressed that the paper was the ‘ first stage in the debate , not the conclusion ’ , and many of the immediate responses on publication welcomed it as such . |
| 29 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 30 | Anyway , Nigel , who loved trout , used to drain the millpond from time to time to rid it of some of the accumulated silt and then just pick them up . |