Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debate about the blocking of acute beds by elderly people is interesting for it calls into question how the health care needs of older people are evaluated . |
| 2 | This duality between solidity and beauty thus expressed a sharp division between the material and the ideal , the bodily and the spiritual , highly typical of the bourgeois world ; yet spirit and ideal in it depended on matter , and could be expressed only through matter , or at least through the money which could buy it . |
| 3 | Those of us who live in north-east Kent have always believed that there should be a fast link , and we have been perfectly happy for it to go through south London , to where our constituents who will benefit from the link wish to travel . |
| 4 | Some unions , most notably the Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , were reluctant to invest the General Council with the power to call all unions out on sympathetic strike action and unemployment made it difficult for it to fight against wage reductions . |
| 5 | Historians agree that the size of this group was certainly much reduced in number by the middle of the eighteenth century , but the chronology of this decline is debatable for it varied from region to region . |