Example sentences of "[prep] it the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 2 | The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash , exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon . |
| 3 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 4 | Britain still has the highest debt to income ratio in Europe and the appetite for credit may not be blunted until the review date comes and with it the monetary day of doom . |
| 5 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
| 6 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 7 | Since mathematics deals with purely imaginary entities , there is theoretically nothing preventing AB from being equal to CD except the need for someone to conceive them as equal , so that the actualization of let carries with it the automatic actualization of be equal . |
| 8 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 9 | In Franco they possessed a leader who , notwithstanding German and Italian annoyance at his lack of dynamism and broad vision , was a first-rate field commander , devoted to the gradual but irreversible conquest of territory and with it the total subjection of the Spanish population . |
| 10 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 11 | A challenging language , carrying with it the sweet allure of forbidden fruit . |
| 12 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 13 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 14 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 15 | The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered . |
| 16 | Others who take the view that the outcome was inevitable , and with it the continuing conflict between capital and labour , will find comfort in the fact that the conflict was , after a time , institutionalised . |
| 17 | Critical reflection is there ; so too is the dynamic dialogue with the students and with it the continuing development in the teacher 's own thinking . |
| 18 | Autumn was reclaiming summer and with it the sun-gilded image of Samantha , last and most innocent of all the Abberleys . |
| 19 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |
| 20 | But the other way this particular Friday can be called ‘ good ’ is by reading back into it the astounding outcome on the day after the Sabbath — the 1st day of the new week . |
| 21 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 22 | The sorrow of the sky was dissolving ; under it the relentless heaving of the compassionless waters mocked the sky 's concern . |
| 23 | This supports a thick earthen plate which forms the ceiling of the cellar and carries above it the central core of the nest with its tiers of nurseries , fungus gardens , food stores and , of course , the royal chambers where the king and queen live . |
| 24 | ‘ As to that , madam , I shall go further , ’ he said gallantly , whereupon he unfastened his leather pouch and carefully removed from it the Great Seal of England . |
| 25 | In other words , by insisting on the dominance of the ruling class in the last instance , Poulantzas 's approach retained within it the central tenet of all reductionist instrumental accounts : namely , the state must be functioning to defend and protect the interests of the dominant class all of the time . |
| 26 | Education and the Working Class , rooted in direct observation and rich reporting , raised ‘ the old dilemma : working class life — listen to the voices — has strengths we can not afford to lose ; middle class life transmits within it the high culture of one society , that must be opened freely to all . |
| 27 | This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life . |
| 28 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 29 | ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’ |
| 30 | In it the mutual affections of bishop and diocese can not be missed . |