Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publicity is fairly short-lived , of course it has tremendous effect on the British media , and we 're all very , very happy for the families of these people |
| 2 | Insofar as municipal systems set limits to the use of force and punish at least some of those guilty of crimes of violence it has some success as law and an undisputed claim to be regarded as law for as long as the officials of the system pursue these objectives by taking steps against non-compliance ( Hart , 1961 , pp. 79–88 and 213ff . ) . |
| 3 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 4 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
| 5 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 6 | Thus as a formal method of scrutiny it has little value . |
| 7 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 8 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 9 | As a monument to extravagance of taste it has few equals in England , although it may not entirely justify the descriptions of a series of upended turnips stuck on boxes or St Paul 's pups which two irreverent contemporaries , William Cobbett and Dean Smith , bestowed on it . |
| 10 | This Act is very important in the commercial world ; in addition to being a very comprehensive regulator of contracts of sale it implies important terms into contracts such as requirements that the goods must match their description , be of merchantable quality , be fit for their purpose and that the seller has the right to sell the goods . |
| 11 | However , as a matter of principle it annoys Hon. Members to think that Welsh Members should adopt such an attitude , because millions of pounds of English taxpayers ' money are directed towards Wales . |
| 12 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 13 | For example it omits retail services |
| 14 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 15 | I do n't want to give any details just in case it gives other landlords ideas . |
| 16 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 17 | In addition it followed Roman Law on rape . |
| 18 | In addition it limits public understanding of government ability , inhibits the explicit establishment of public sector planning programmes , and leads to inefficiency and lack of accountability on the part of departmental and programme managers . |
| 19 | The maritime antarctic as a whole has 20% more lichens than the continent and 150% more mosses ; in addition it has 25 taxa of hepatics to the continent 's one , and two species of angiosperms that have not yet been found on the continent . |
| 20 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 21 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 22 | To those with no operational experience such as MPs , Courts of Enquiry , magistrates etc. , it can appear a sensible and foolproof system , but in practice it has many deficiencies . |
| 23 | Mill 's ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle seems simple , but in practice it has many problems . |
| 24 | In practice it overlooks two things . |
| 25 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 26 | In effect it travels 230 miles ( 370 kms ) also the entire northern flank of the Swiss High Alps , crossing 16 passes and passing below some spectacular peaks including those celebrated giants of the Bernese Oberland — the Wellerhorn , Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau . |
| 27 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 28 | To be of value in war it required Egyptian co-operation . |
| 29 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 30 | In fact it becomes two articles — one for punchcard machines still called ‘ Simply Silver ’ and one for electronics featured separately as ‘ Silver Scene ’ . |