Example sentences of "[prep] it [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a large police presence at the rave , despite it being licensed by the local council . |
| 2 | Although it is from 1 to 3 km below sea level off Java , along most of the coast of Sumatra parts of it are exposed as the Mentawai and other islands ( Figs 3.9 and 3.14 ) . |
| 3 | A sense of the past may be retained by the use of remembrancers whose representations of it are differentiated from the everyday casual memories of people . |
| 4 | Anorexia is a relatively modern illness er the first descriptions of it are found in the nineteenth century and today it 's er by no means an uncommon illness in er mainly in young women , very occasionally in men , but , but er y it 's more or less safe to say it 's er it 's a disease of er women and almost always younger women . |
| 5 | The Sunday Liturgy is never celebrated without music and large parts of it are sung by the celebrant , the deacon and the people . |
| 6 | Projections of it are reproduced in the papers . |
| 7 | This creeps across the shelf and down the continental slope , spreading along the sea-bed ; much of it is formed over the shelves of the Weddell and Ross bights , and from there it spreads far northward into the northern hemisphere . |
| 8 | When the sun 's rays hit the Earth a lot of the heat is reflected back into space but some of it is kept within the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 9 | The insert procedure itself varies somewhat from model to model , but the essence of it is to arrange for the over-recording to end at a pre-determined out point . |
| 10 | If I said some of it is n't made from the words or the message some of it is made from the tone of your voice . |
| 11 | I make no attempt to define satisfactory ; for apart from the truism that it must not be so large that the individual member of it is lost in the crowd and hence in his own view and in that of those who lead , instruct or represent him , reduced to an impersonal average , what makes a satisfactory constituency will vary from case to case . |
| 12 | The most dominant structural factor in the work is that much of it is cast in the form of canticles . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes . |
| 14 | The trustee 's resignation is effective from the date the notice of it is filed by the official receiver at court ( r 6.127(7) ) . |
| 15 | In Madeira the local branch of it is dominated by the charismatic figure of Dr Alberto João Jardim and at any election , national or local , the party can count on between sixty-five and seventy per cent of the votes cast in the island . |
| 16 | Ostland lies on the far side of the Middle Mountains and a great part of it is occupied by the Forest of Shadows . |
| 17 | The region near the zenith looks rather dull , because much of it is occupied by the vast , dim Hydra . |
| 18 | Less bone is ingested by diurnal raptors , because some of it is left with the uneaten carcase after soft parts have been stripped off , whereas more of the bone is eaten by owls . |
| 19 | Much of it is preserved in the former DDR and now , thanks to German re-unification and to a renewed appreciation of grandiose kitsch , this great self-styled ‘ Universalkünstler ’ of the German fin-de-siècle can now be rediscovered at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut . |
| 20 | Levi-Strauss ( 1969 ) noted that such taboos certainly exist and a notorious modern example of it is found in the immorality laws of South Africa which forbid sexual relations between blacks and whites . |
| 21 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 22 | One of the best forms of supplement is haemoglobin iron which is derived from beef blood and is completely natural ( virtually 100% of it is used by the body compared to very low utilisation by the body of synthetic iron-ferrous salts ) . |
| 23 | India , Pakistan , Indonesia , Brazil and Kenya have asked to receive data from ERS-1 , which will be made available to them within three hours of it being transmitted from the satellite . |
| 24 | The legislation , which was signed by President Bush on the morning of June 26 , imposed a 38-day cooling-off period and forced the participants to submit to arbitration which , in the event of it being approved by the President , would be binding . |
| 25 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |
| 26 | There was an interesting sequel to this in 1967 when a book written by Len Deighton was published and sections of it were serialized in the Sunday Times . |
| 27 | Remember , when the sterling was redeposited with the UK bank only 90 per cent of it was credited to the NBPS ; 10 per cent was deposited in the name of the overseas bank and is not included in normal definitions of the money supply . |
| 28 | It is in such conditions that we should look for an explanation of the outcrop in the 1860s of sensational popular fiction , replete with desertion , adultery , bigamy and sudden death ; much of it was written from the woman 's point of view by women writers , such as Mary Braddon , Rhoda Broughton and Mrs Henry Wood . |
| 29 | Part of her annoyance was brought about by the fact that she had never met nor heard of Mary Brown but part of it was fuelled by the fact that her son had broken with the faith . |
| 30 | Most of it was done in the seventies , some was done in the sixties . |