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

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1 The heading was subdivided into eight separate sections on such subjects as slavery , women , Plato 's ideal state and the mysteries , and Nietzsche was sufficiently interested in it to produce a draft version for the bulk of the sequence .
2 The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment .
3 When the inspectorate is reduced to 175 , it will be virtually impossible for it to produce a report with anything like the quality of those produced in the past .
4 But it was surely natural for it to feel a flutter of impatience with a fading tradition of Edwardian Modernism that had once invited the educated reader to find metaphysical foundations to his faith before he could believe life meant anything or was worth living .
5 A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain by P.A. Cowan ( London 1985 ) is , in its field , most valuable for it contains a gazetteer .
6 In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing .
7 The £130 Sega Mega Drive is Britain 's best-selling 16-bit video games machine and there are masses of games available for it to keep the family happy .
8 Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet .
9 ( vi ) Rejection by the other House It is rare for one House to reject outright a Bill passed by the other , more common for it to pass the Bill with amendments .
10 Not all transmitters excite the post synaptic membrane , some inhibit it so that it is more difficult for it to carry an impulse .
11 Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different .
12 We can of course continue to talk in jurisdictional terminology ; we can say that a tribunal 's jurisdiction is conditional on it making no errors of law .
13 Nevertheless , the year 1961 , in which Molly Sheavyn and Mark Frame assumed office , is historically very significant for it marks the beginning of an era when the BDDA was no longer tun by part-time volunteers from their homes , but became an organisation with its own office and full-time paid staff .
14 The reticence of the General Council was deliberate for it feared the violence which might ensue if all workers came out and was alarmed at the prospect of mass defections leading to the rapid collapse of the dispute if it did not immediately meet its objectives .
15 How such a venture was ever worthwhile is debatable for it had the disadvantage of the steep climb from the pavement .
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