Example sentences of "[prep] it in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 2 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 3 | Shop till you drop among the world 's most madding crowd , or stay far from it in the fragrant forests of The Land Between |
| 4 | And er , on the other side , the , the people interested in it in the social sciences , erm , did n't particularly like it , because , at that time , they were heavily dominated by er , Marxist and people on the left . |
| 5 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 6 | Thousands of people suffer the handicap of not being able to read or write properly , but that handicap could be eradicated if we put our minds to it in the coming years . |
| 7 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 8 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 9 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 10 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 11 | But you are going to hear a great deal more about it in the coming months . |
| 12 | There is a copy here if Members want to browse through it in the small hours of morning . |
| 13 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |