Example sentences of "it [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few more dives and it surfaces with a larger fish which , judging from its colour , is a sea-scorpion . |
| 2 | Its local Shetland name is ‘ neesick ’ , which means ‘ the sneezer ’ , referring to the explosive exhalation of breath it gives as it surfaces for air . |
| 3 | It not only leaves a catalogue of unresolved hurts , it surfaces in an apprehensive and unrealistic way of coping with present difficulties . |
| 4 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 5 | GIVEN that the most decisive factor in the Lincoln Handicap has traditionally been the draw — made the previous day — it seems odd that trainers have a fetish for ‘ laying a horse out ’ for it months in advance . |
| 6 | Give it schools fe education |
| 7 | It will be suggested here that , because each one of these terms carries with it connotations regarding what these processes are , ‘ learning ’ , ‘ acquisition ’ and ‘ development ’ are associated with different accounts of developmental change . |
| 8 | When you exacerbate this situation by confronting him with direct questioning or something which intimidates him and causes him to feel even more nervous , his breathing can become so rapid and so shallow that it borders on hyperventilation . |
| 9 | It is certainly undemocratic , and many people are beginning to feel that it borders on the unconstitutional . |
| 10 | Greater Manchester 's area extends from Tameside in the east to Wigan in the west , and here it borders on Merseyside , which takes in the metropolitan districts of Knowsley , Liverpool , St Helens , Sefton and Wirral . |
| 11 | What , seen , what have you been to that Liberti is it Liberties by the town church ? |
| 12 | To conclude : we have found that the industrial co-operative , in a market economy , is a fully effective form of organisation for production or provision in the United Kingdom as in other liberal democracies ; that there is no necessary reason to attach to it limitations of size or kind ; and that the general adoption of the form would import into the national economy such a structural change as is urgently needed to resolve the problem , ominous and intractable , of securing near-full employment without inflation at other than an insignificant rate . |
| 13 | With experience , the flyer soon learns how to steer by allowing the kite to determine its direction as it terns from the vertical , then , with a combination of ground movements and line pull , it is controlled with precision . |
| 14 | In Libya the peace which flowed from state justice , impersonal , universal , was not enough for the Zuwaya : they added to it peaces of their own manufacture , tailored to the social personalities involved in particular breaches of the peace , guaranteed by specific and contingent undertakings made between Muslims . |
| 15 | If natural rock is such an influence and repository of psychic memory , it is not surprising that the sites where it outcrops to the surface should be considered so special . |
| 16 | There is a dynamic about poverty that makes it a risk increaser when it interlocks with other factors . |
| 17 | There is a dynamic about poverty that makes it a risk increaser when it interlocks with other factors . |
| 18 | Finally , grab yourself a makeshift whip : lash out at the face with the leather belt from your waist so that it cracks like the real thing . |
| 19 | It 's the snap-shot of people paid in a period , and it has in it comparisons with the previous quarter , June ninety-three and the previous year , September ninety-two . |
| 20 | But really it was it years without . |
| 21 | They added to their test-tubes a poison called ethidium bromide which inhibits the synthesis of RNA : it gums up the works of the machine tools . |
| 22 | The Left tradition incorporated within it memories of war resistance between 1914 and 1918 , in which many leaders of the Labour Party had joined . |
| 23 | The Scottish bus passengers consultative committee proposed in new clause 5 would consider the needs of the disabled if representations were made to it Provisions for the disabled should also be contained in the code of conduct that we have asked to be drawn up . |
| 24 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 25 | Listen all you viewers out there , is it viewers on the radio ? |
| 26 | He grew used to her absence , thought of nothing but his book , and decided to call it Principles of the Real . |
| 27 | If you tell me something ca n't be done , I 'll probably tell you it can and when I 've started on it things like sleep and food can become secondary . ’ |
| 28 | Right I mean , part partly related to body language , but it things like proximity |
| 29 | Well erm there 's a lot of there 's a lot of abuse that goes on between kids of similar ages , often in schools , and we call it things like bullying . |
| 30 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |