Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lionfish have venom glands at the base of the dorsal fine spines and the sting can prove very serious and excruciatingly painful although there is no record of it causing any human fatalities |
| 2 | Does the association of low pitch with authority and high pitch with lack of it have any reasonable basis , or is it simply a sexist prejudice through which everything that marks a speaker out as female becomes a cause for complaint and a proof of inferiority ? |
| 3 | She did n't even need to work out her notice , just go in any time she felt like it to collect any personal belongings . |
| 4 | In ‘ God 's Cop ’ , Mark Day 's guitar is raw and rasping like it eats ten jangly guitars for breakfast ; rhythm and booze at its best , but gelling easily with the older , classic Bez-dance tunes ‘ Hallelujah ’ and ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ , both still mesmeric , especially with tonight 's flashy light show , and ‘ Step On ’ still makes a stomping lingering finale . |
| 5 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 6 | And so the year 1798 drew to a close , and with it came another crippling winter in a decade of crippling winters . |
| 7 | One common source of fumes is the foam-backing on carpets — this tends to break down due to constant wear , and formaldehyde ( see above ) may interact with it to produce toxic airborne chemicals that can irritate the airways causing symptoms similar to bronchitis . |
| 8 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 9 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 10 | ALTHOUGH set in 1914 , Jennifer Johnston 's ‘ How Many Miles to Babylon ? ’ carries in it notes that still strike a chord today . |
| 11 | And also , as a children 's programme , I was intent upon it containing basic factual information that could be described as educational- — or , at least , mind-opening for them . |
| 12 | A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time . |
| 13 | If they can establish that literacy in itself constructs superior logical functions , then it will follow that those without it have inferior logical functions . |
| 14 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |
| 15 | The orange tree is particularly interesting for it produces three different-smelling essences with differing therapeutic properties : neroli ( blossom ) , petit-grain ( leaves ) and orange ( rind ) . |
| 16 | It is important to remember the liturgical context of these meditations for it supplies other expressed structures of meaning only latent within them but crucial to their full impact . |
| 17 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 18 | This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings . |
| 19 | Happily there was some friendly cloud ; this time I went right through it to regain some horizontal reference , then bob in and out of the cloud until Jock had repaired the damage , I stayed near the cloud base just in case we were jumped again . |