Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Officially 20 acres of arable land was regarded as standard , but with some of it left fallow each year , many people must have got by with much less in practice , for in East Anglia , c .
2 Though the antarctic ice-cap is estimated to contain 90% of the world 's water , only a tiny fraction of it becomes available each year for living material .
3 Selby enjoy partially part part of their area enjoys assisted area status , part of it enjoys objective two status , it is an area where land is cheap , it is an area where there is a plentiful supply of labour , and yet the past allocation in the structure plan has not been taken up .
4 One common source of fumes is the foam-backing on carpets — this tends to break down due to constant wear , and formaldehyde ( see above ) may interact with it to produce toxic airborne chemicals that can irritate the airways causing symptoms similar to bronchitis .
5 In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth .
6 And also , as a children 's programme , I was intent upon it containing basic factual information that could be described as educational- — or , at least , mind-opening for them .
7 If they can establish that literacy in itself constructs superior logical functions , then it will follow that those without it have inferior logical functions .
8 The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry .
9 It is important to remember the liturgical context of these meditations for it supplies other expressed structures of meaning only latent within them but crucial to their full impact .
10 it takes six bleeding hours to think about it let alone six minutes .
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