Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The trick of combining lower marginal tax rates with a higher average tax take comes from the stepped progression of the tax system : as incomes rise people 's taxable income rises proportionately faster and larger slices of it attract the higher rates . |
2 | The nature of the economic system and the conflicts within it influence the changing rules of the game . |
3 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
4 | As he bent tenderly over it to examine the flattened tyres , a hand stuck a length of rubber piping out of the wash-room window and directed a jet of water down his neck . |
5 | Without it appears the extra bods |
6 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
7 | For on it lay the prickly pears he had picked for her earlier , now denuded of their spikes and cut into quarters . |
8 | Hugh Manson has tried for the best combination of feel and usability by planing the fingerboard to a compound radius — a medium-curved 10″ radius near the headstock , but flattening right out to 16″ as it reaches the upper frets , in order to minimise the strings choking off when you play bent notes and to allow a lower overall action . |
9 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |