Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This argument tacitly assumes that once the collapse begins there is no hope of stopping it at a later stage . |
| 32 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 33 | It did not occur to him that it was following the track of a mole , in the hope of killing it with a blow of its beak and then pulling it out of its shallow run . |
| 34 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 35 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 36 | If you read Totem and Taboo , and I , by the way I do expect all of you er to read it , because it is one of the set er books , and one of the things I 'm not gon na do in these lectures on the black books , is to tell you what the book says , and just kind of repeat it in the lecture . |
| 37 | It was a film made some years ago in black and white , but , despite the difficulty of watching it in a foreign language , the power of the drama gripped them both , Sarella because she was a professional and was impressed by the intensity of the acting , and Marc because it seemed to strike some deep chord within him . |
| 38 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 39 | For my part , I promise you I will continue at all times to have this possibility in mind , and to take every opportunity of bringing it to the minds of those who can best move in the matter . |
| 40 | Of course , if you have a young family and feel water might be a hazard , the feature could become a raised sandpit or planter , which naturally gives you the opportunity of converting it at a later stage . |
| 41 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 42 | A perceived event then is not in the same relation to the act of perceiving it as an inferred event is to the act of inferring it . |
| 43 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |
| 44 | There 's been talk on the council of turning it into a swimming pool , but they ca n't afford it . |
| 45 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 46 | As far as the Science Museum is concerned it 's a question of helping it with the whole game of raising finance and all the other things they have to do . |
| 47 | The likelihood of finding it on a University reading list , or even in a University library , would be slight , though the books of Roberts 's lifelong friend George Gissing do have a place in the approved literary canon . |
| 48 | When you remove food from the freezer , do n't leave it in a warm atmosphere or allow it to come into contact with unclean hands , surfaces or equipment before returning it to the freezer — you will be at risk of freezing in any contamination . |
| 49 | The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case . |
| 50 | Stonier and Conlin point out that , " A word processor allows the student the opportunity of correcting their own work before presenting it to the teacher as a finished product " . |
| 51 | On an impulse , she opened the case and took the violin out , held it and held the bow without applying it to the strings . |
| 52 | Although technically the reform had taken effect on Nov. 1 , Yeltsin told the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet that it was simply impossible to proceed with the Shatalin plan without co-ordinating it with the central government . |
| 53 | Right : Protect your outdoor pool from the rigours of winter by enclosing it in a Norwegian log chalet . |
| 54 | In both cases these are intellectuals talking about their own work by linking it with a process continually taking place at a popular level and in everyday life . |
| 55 | T HOSE with a vested interest in rubbishing the Prince of Wales 's new Institute of Architecture by tarring it with the brush of eccentricity will have a field-day when they learn that the founder of the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes , Isaac Tigrett , is to sponsor a Russian student to attend the Institute for five years beginning this autumn . |
| 56 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 57 | They have no gills , but obtain their oxygen by absorbing it through the skin of their body and greatly enlarged tails . |
| 58 | There , the missing gene will be added to the marrow by infecting it with a genetically altered virus . |
| 59 | In the course of the book Nash delineates popfiction by comparing it with the classics and tabloid journalism ( Chapter 1 ) , with naturally occurring conversation ( Chapters 2 and 3 ) , and finally with narrative techniques pertaining to film-making ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 60 | The crime for which Jean Campbell was charged was one of wilful murder of her own three-year old child by throwing it over the Old Bridge in Glasgow into the River Clyde where it drowned . |