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

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1 The School Government Regulations even allow the governors to decide that any matter ‘ by reason of its nature ’ should be treated as confidential and so exclude papers and minutes about it from public scrutiny .
2 Take your eyes off it for one second and … something frightful might happen .
3 The Prime Minister added : ‘ The Home Secretary is responsible for immigration and has made speeches about it for many months .
4 The ocean floor is scored and fissured , and a suture line miles deep plunges through it in sudden counterpoint to the nearby mountain-building .
5 Although parts of this tradition have been examined in great detail , some of the most important aspects of it for this theme have received little attention .
6 The dense tubular system which probably represents residual smooth endoplasmic reticulum is discrete from the open canalicular system ( Behnke , 1970 ) but forms very close relationships with it in certain areas of the cytoplasm ( White , 1972 ) .
7 ‘ Fish Street , ’ says Esme , ‘ did have 19 fish shops in it at one time .
8 He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things .
9 They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages .
10 Rather it is couched in absolutist terms that reify literacy as though its very essence were being described and that unjustifiably relate specific cultural manifestations of it to such universals as logic , abstraction etc .
11 Perhaps this is due to the erroneous descriptions of it in early texts as ‘ a large , dull , uninteresting fish , difficult to keep ’ , coupled with confusion caused by some retail outlets offering the natural or ‘ wild ’ form of Orange Chromide ( Etroplus maculatus ) as ‘ Green Chromide ’ .
12 Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’
13 An abstract recently presented by R K Yu et al at the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Anaheim , California , indicated no clear association of treatment with monosialoganglioside ( G m 1 ) and the development of antibodies to it in 418 samples from human subjects receiving parenteral gangliosides .
14 And you can bung , you can bung some bipolar adjectives underneath it of one sort or another er
15 Only 5% of respondents agreed with this suggestion , and there were huge majorities against it within all categories of respondent , the principal objections being its impracticality and the fear that it would encourage ‘ blind signing ’ by the co — signatory .
16 ICL claims Bull and SNI are at least two or three years behind it with commercial EDS products .
17 Well we can get to grips with it at this meeting when you talk amongst yourselves er as to how you divide up the base accounts yeah ?
18 When Henry Homer wrote this in 1767 the canal age was in its infancy , but he predicted that not only by the turnpikes but with the aid of " an even more valuable project of increasing inland navigation , a facility of communication is soon likely to be established from every part of the Island to the sea and from the several places on it to each other " .
19 Twenty pounds for it at twenty pounds at twenty pounds thank you , twenty is offered and selling for twenty pounds only , twenty five for you sir , thank you , twenty five , thirty thirty five thirty five to my left and selling for thirty five pounds yours sir , thank you , thirty five pounds for number eight four five , thank you very much .
20 Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way .
21 Firstly , by appointing a proxy to perform the oath , and secondly , transferring the fief and his rights over it to another person .
22 So if we can be quite clear in our minds from now , you might get questions on it tomorrow , you might get questions on it at some point in the future during the week , but they inevitably come at some point .
23 He had not visited the place he was seeking before , but he knew it was there , and had heard tales of it from numerous acquaintances .
24 The sinker plate supplied with the YC6 for single bed knitting has wheels and brushes beneath it like any sinker plate .
25 Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings .
26 Fortunately , ex-Prisoner James Taylor is aware of the problem and is finally coming to terms with it after five albums of patchy solo meanderings .
27 However , as the table has to be moved out of the way whenever the patient gets up , it should not be too heavy , or have too many items on it at one time .
28 It is evident that even at seventeen Nietzsche took life and his own views on it with great seriousness ; also , that implicit in those views was an uneasy relationship , here in its first stage , between the inevitable " mere specialism " of the professional classical scholar and a growing " longing for Greece " .
29 If a nursing mother has a normal-sized litter it is possible to add one or two orphaned kittens to it without much difficulty .
30 There , that manoeuvre is known as gybing but really it 's as simple as that , sailing downwind you do n't have to change course very often , unlike when we 're sailing upwind with tacking but we need to show you a few more demonstrations about it in quick succession .
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