Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from these , and the research described in the present book , there has been relatively little research in this area , most of it resulting in unpublished MA theses ( e.g. Tate 1984 ) or doctoral theses ( e.g. Wright 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Can a major part of a church be demolished without consent on the grounds that part of it remains in ecclesiastical use ? |
| 3 | That when women are given the vote it follows that children should be given it too is no argument at all , but a version of it occurs in modern debates over the justice or injustice of Mill 's famous disclaimer in his essay On Liberty . |
| 4 | He sat in shirt-sleeved , patriarchal majesty and his spreading , black waistcoat ( the shiny back of it cracked in long lines ) was strung with an impressive gold watch-chain , of the style favoured by Victorian pit-owners . |
| 5 | The exhibition includes some delicately-worked gold jewellery , most of it found in Celtic tombs in the past 100 years : typically gold or silver torques , or saddle and bridle decorations of gold , silver , coral and enamel . |
| 6 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 7 | I 'd been out and I was out of it sitting in this shop doorway having this conversation with myself . |
| 8 | The fact that he wore a hat with a daffodil in it helped in this respect , he felt . |
| 9 | And it has enabled the Met to build up an institution that makes the arts splendidly accessible to the general public , without it indulging in crass commercialisation . |
| 10 | In the culture in which he specializes the anthropologist is admirably sociological ; but as soon as he steps outside it to engage in comparative studies and generalization he becomes paradoxically culture-bound , unwittingly taking unique cultural forms as universal facts . |
| 11 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |