Example sentences of "[prep] it [be] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's particularly concerned about conditions in Jordanian refugee camps which two of it 's Middle East staff , sent on a fact finding mission , have described as grim . |
| 2 | But the poem progressed farther in the mind than on paper , and all that survives of it are some verse fragments describing the distant wail of swallows and seagulls , water dripping one Sunday from the miller 's wheel ( perhaps at Kilve ) , the snow blown curling from a wood ‘ like pillars of cottage smoke ’ , and a wild Quantock pony racing in the wind . |
| 3 | The huge black desk was flanked by a complicated system of telephones and intercoms ; on the top of it was one platinum de Chavigny pen and one plain white folder . |
| 4 | THE Russians are to build their first Western-style theme park — and the inspiration behind it is British cartoon dog Digswell . |
| 5 | Approach road junctions with great care , consider your road position and your speed , drive on only when you are sure it is safe to do so and that you will not block the junction , watch out for long vehicles which maybe turning left or right , at the junction ahead , but which may have to use to make a turn , when waiting to emerge at a junction , do not assume that a vehicle approaching from the right which is signalling with it 's left hand direction indicator would turn left , wait to make sure do you know what I mean ? |
| 6 | Taking more than a passing interest in the glam rock movement of the '70s , Suede 's debut — with it 's thick pounding drum intro , drawled Bowie-like vocals and brash bursts of chugging guitar — was never likely to pass unnoticed . |
| 7 | So with it being another student union and it being like a conference in aid of the homeless and that , I did n't really want to sort of give them a load of grief so I suggested about sixty pounds . |
| 8 | Penetration in many instances is not related to a property of the organism itself , in most instances it 's re related to some form of injury in which the organism is moved from it 's normal skin location to a deep tissue location . |
| 9 | And they would face certain disaster if the treasury goes ahead with plans to cut 270 million pounds from it 's overseas aid budget . |
| 10 | In it 's 11 year history , this is the first to crash in peacetime . |
| 11 | Since then the pubs passed down through sons , daughters , cousins and nephews to it 's present day owners . |
| 12 | Tied to it were two speed boats , a smack and a power boat equipped for deep-sea fishing . |
| 13 | There is an entrance hall of perfect proportions , which is twice as long as it is square , and leading off it are three reception rooms of great height and elegance . |
| 14 | That 's the sort of question to ask Stevie , by the way he says tartaric acid , ask him for it 's proper chemical name . |
| 15 | Britain may have to bide it 's time for it 's next tennis hero … |
| 16 | So far London had taken Peter over thirteen years , and all he had to show for it was six box files bulging with notes , newspaper cuttings and botched openings . |
| 17 | Around it were two steel chairs with putrid white plastic on the seats . |
| 18 | Our initial response to the publicity was that we would like the conference organisers to define precisely the importance of feminism , as from our point of view it remains an ideological tool of imperialism , which creates division and disunity by it 's reactionary reductionist theories . |