Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 2 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 3 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 4 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 5 | The Agnus is naturally the culminating variation ; in ‘ Misericorde ’ the four parts are expanded for it to six . |
| 6 | Skelton Village and the area of D thirty nine and D forty form no part of the built area of York , but are separated from it by open country . |
| 7 | This work laid the foundation for the later unravelling of the interior structure of the earth , through observation of the behaviour of seismic waves as they are transmitted through it from distant earthquakes . |
| 8 | Each term is usually given together with terms which are related to it in one of a number of ways . |
| 9 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 10 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 11 | So it 's not , you 're looking at it as two . |
| 12 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 13 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 14 | You 're talking to it at this very moment , you 're talking it out , you 're talking it down , and you want my help . |
| 15 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 16 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 17 | Any new food regime has to be simple to follow if you are to stick with it for any length of time . |
| 18 | However , I believe we are going into it in good shape and can fact it with out usual , and properly cautious , optimism . |
| 19 | So have you ever , in terms of the crime , have you ever been affected by it in any way |
| 20 | This includes a good proportion of the population as , in addition to persons currently employed by the state , many others have been employed by it at some earlier stage in their lives . |
| 21 | But questions have also been raised about it in non-social areas of linguistics , and these are often attached to reservations about the theoretical nature of sociolinguistics as a discipline . |
| 22 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 23 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Waugh acknowledged that he was once again freezing the Ayr Road project even although money had been allocated to it in 1991 . |
| 25 | But sociologist Jean-Claude Kausmann has found out what they are doing with it in private in a major piece of research that takes the lid off the French marital laundry basket . |
| 26 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 27 | A high proportion of diplomats everywhere still began their careers , until well into the second half of the nineteenth century , by serving as unpaid attachés ; and it was not unusual for the head of a mission to ask for a son or a nephew to be assigned to it in this capacity . |
| 28 | These may take a bit of finding — although an electronic stud detector will help — but once the batten has been secured , the kitchen cupboard ( or whatever ) can be secured to it with normal woodscrews . |
| 29 | Even where such material is not incorporated by reference apparently reference may still be made to it for contextual or confirmatory purposes . |
| 30 | That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of . |