Example sentences of "[prep] it [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
| 2 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
| 3 | Corporal Blagg had spent his childhood — those parts of it the local authority had n't been able to control — in the courts , alleyways and concrete ‘ gardens ’ of Rotherhithe 's blocks of flats . |
| 4 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
| 5 | Underneath it a second note reads , ‘ Capt FitzRoy Parrot beaked finch comes from James Island ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon . |
| 7 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 8 | The linear trim position indicator runs immediately behind it a red pointer moving back and forward to markings numbered either side of a central zero . |
| 9 | Bourgeois democracy was seen as a facade , concealing the fact that behind it the capitalist class continued to rule and dominate bourgeois society . |
| 10 | Incorporation thus brings with it a useful device to facilitate borrowing , from both the company and the lender 's viewpoint . |
| 11 | For the purposes of this chapter , this question of chronology makes only one difference , and that is in assessing how long the two separate procedural regimes lasted ; how long therefore the use of a trust brought with it a distinct advantage compared with the use of a modal legacy . |
| 12 | Shell have a large oil refinery at Stanlow near Ellesmere Port and with it a petrochemical works producing plastics . |
| 13 | But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker . |
| 14 | Some people worry that this argument , along with cheating by Iraq , North Korea and others , could fatally undermine the NPT , and with it the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | When grammar teaching fell into decline much of value was lost : a certain analytic competence , and with it the valuable ability to talk and write explicitly about linguistic patterns , relations and organisation . |
| 16 | The original metre is lost , of course , and with it the lovely lilting pauses at mid-line in the hexameter , and the " rest " at the end of the trimeter ; but still the English quatrain scheme answers generally ( there is one exception ) to the patterning of the Horatian strophe into distich and answering distich . |
| 17 | The water was covered with a film of ice whilst above it a grey mist boiled . |
| 18 | Above it an old man fished while others sat on benches , tankards in hand . |
| 19 | The second stage is a kind of broadside display ; it is called the ‘ parallel walk ’ , and in it the two males walk back and forth along side each other . |
| 20 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 21 | We believe that the right way to deal with that offence is to build on the offence under the Theft Act 1968 — the taking and driving away — and add to it the aggravated offence covered in clause 1 . |
| 22 | Our classroom had a chart ; on it an apricot glow marked the apotheosis of a vast flight of yellowed marble stairs . |
| 23 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 24 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 25 | But when she thought about it an odd picture came into her head ; a picture of herself innocently lifting the lid of a box and letting out a dark , shapeless shadow … |
| 26 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 27 | In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry about the turning a blind eye I er I er Mr I really do feel that if you are passionate about it the one way to get rid of this debate is to vote for my motion . |
| 29 | All around it the bloodstained undergrowth lay broken and flattened by its struggles , and as soon as it saw him , the animal lowered its needle-sharp horns that had grown in its prime to a length of nearly three feet . |