Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way . |
2 | The difficulties involved in learning it may also discourage the largely amateur choirs which accompany professional orchestras from adding it to their repertoire . |
3 | Remove the vanilla pod , skim the jam , and let it cool for a few minutes before turning it into small jars . |
4 | Rub the meat with salt ( about a couple of tablespoonsful ) and let it stand overnight or at least a few hours before cutting it into 1 ½-inch thick strips along the grooves left by the bones . |
5 | As there are few opportunities for making it by oneself , a great deal of the effort of those in low-income groups goes into working out how they can maximize their income within the existing rules . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Many have moved from saying proudly they were social workers to saying it with embarrassment . |
8 | In this second part we shall look at what is required of a spiritual director and suggest some ways of exploring it as a personal resource . |
9 | I 've tried a few ways of getting it off her … offering to telephone for her and so on , thinking she might improve if that was off her mind … ‘ |
10 | There are different ways of doing it with different people erm who do share it . |
11 | There was a lot of sympathy for the concept , but we saw real difficulties about enshrining it in the planning machinery without far more information about how one would take the concept of sustainable development forward in district plans . |
12 | Hodkinson , who has successfully defended the crown three times since taking it from another Mexican , Marcos Villasana , in November 1991 , added : ‘ That belt means so much to me . |
13 | Actually the ganglion cells are responsible for preprocessing the information in sophisticated ways before relaying it to the brain , and in some ways the word " interface " does n't do justice to this . |
14 | Strachan and Birks agree that water vole numbers were in significant decline before the arrival of the mink — which can overcome the water vole 's traditional defences by following it into water and even , in the case of smaller mink , into its tunnels . |
15 | There are also good reasons for associating it with rich clusters ( groups of several hundred galaxies ) as these seem to have a collective halo , possibly formed from the material in the original haloes of the constituent galaxies . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The makers of Lamisil , Sandoz Pharmaceuticals of Surrey say they tested the drug for 5 years before using it on humans . |
18 | He studied the English copy for a few more moments before dropping it into the shredder . |
19 | It had the advantage of not only offering a system of training ( that it was intended by Rudolf Laban for the retraining of ballet dancers did not deter physical educationalists from transferring it to colleges and schools ) , but also of offering a rationale . |
20 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
21 | But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation . |
22 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
23 | The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground . |
24 | The specimen bored straight into a weed bed and Pike Anglers ' Club member Andy fought the fish for 15 minutes before beating it with size 8 trebles to 11 lb line . |
25 | In any case , teaching English Literature to schoolchildren would only remind her daily of the superior satisfactions of teaching it to young adults . |
26 | World population , erm probably what I 'm gon na have to do is , although they , they said you ca n't do it do n't get any ideas about doing it with because it 's not possible . |
27 | The law of passing-off is particularly useful if there is no registered mark to be infringed ; perhaps a trader or manufacturer has used a mark for several years without registering it as a trade mark . |
28 | It did not seem likely that the Sun , at any rate , would have felt any qualms about printing it in full . |
29 | Seventeen firemen fought the blaze for four hours before getting it under control . |
30 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |