Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work . |
| 2 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 3 | The title Chair is useful in that it separates the formal role from the person occupying it . ) |
| 4 | Second , it stresses the importance of the immediate context of the poem over the distinction between ‘ metaphoric ’ and ‘ proper ’ , in that it analyses the pre-referential dynamic of the metaphoric process . |
| 5 | Anderson 's long turn , therefore , amounts to an extreme example of what Brown and Yule describe as 'speaking on a topic " , rather than 'speaking topically " ( Brown and Yule 1983 : 84 ) , in that it ignores the previous speaker 's utterance in order to develop a new topic . |
| 6 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 7 | However , s 382B is significant in that it allows the sole member to conduct members ' business informally without notice or minutes . |
| 8 | He also keeps the following Presto agitato simmering for longer than usual ( track 4 ) , and his restraint pays off handsomely in that it throws the later climactic phases into relief . |
| 9 | Nonetheless the Social Charter remains important in that it provides the underpinning for the implementation of an action programme of over 40 measures which will be prepared by the Commission ( COM(89) 568 ) . |
| 10 | Much controversy has attached to the word ‘ servants ’ in this passage , as to whether it cancelled the previous Leveller insistence on full , unqualified adult manhood suffrage and was intended to exclude all wage-earners from the vote , or — more likely — was meant to cover only those living in , and so dependent on their master or mistress for board and lodging . |
| 11 | In these sentences , it will be recalled , the event is seen as prospective , as a subsequent potential , a meaning that arises from intercepting the movement of to before it reaches the infinitival lexeme 's place in time . |