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

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1 The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right .
2 Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time .
3 He 'll introduce proposals for abolishing it by the end of the year .
4 We are therefore exploring opportunities for divesting it from the group and have already successfully negotiated a number of disposals , including the sale of its processed meats division .
5 A simple microscopic examination of some vaginal discharge , suspended in a salt solution , will give the diagnosis in most cases , and there are also reliable methods of culturing it in the laboratory .
6 Most reckon that , with the holding in Hanson 's balance sheet as a fixed asset , Lord Hanson will probably hold on for maybe 18 months before placing it with an alternative international predator .
7 The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground .
8 For instance , in the squatting ‘ demoiselle ’ Picasso had dislocated and distended the various parts of the body in an attempt to explain it as fully as possible , without the limitations of viewing it from a single , stationary position .
9 Part of the answer must be that the element of risk in a PRP scheme reduces its attractiveness to employees , hence the advantages of introducing it at a time when the alternative ( no pay rise ) is even worse .
10 Perhaps the best result of the current fascination with ‘ world music ’ is that , after decades of using it as a fashion accessory or status symbol , people have actually begun to listen to music again .
11 But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation .
12 It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment .
13 Once information is judged material , we weigh its relevance against the constraints , and balance the costs of reporting it against the benefits .
14 However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant .
15 The teacher 's purposes in selecting it as a ‘ collaborative ’ activity would be undermined if some children worked individually .
16 The law of passing-off is particularly useful if there is no registered mark to be infringed ; perhaps a trader or manufacturer has used a mark for several years without registering it as a trade mark .
17 Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho , had grown his own cannabis back home in Los Angeles and had thought to avoid being busted by customs by posting it to the hotel in Wales where he was due to stay in June 1989 .
18 There was a lot of sympathy for the concept , but we saw real difficulties about enshrining it in the planning machinery without far more information about how one would take the concept of sustainable development forward in district plans .
19 Sec. in his report gave a resume of the year 's business and in particular referred to the proposed museum and the difficulties of establishing it with the very limited resources at the Society 's disposal .
20 For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes .
21 Despite the difficulties of relating it to the archaeology , Bede 's statement about the origins of the Germanic settlers in England is generally accepted .
22 Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise .
23 We weakened the signal in several ways , one of which was by damaging the cells of the polarizing region with high doses of X-rays before grafting it to the anterior margin .
24 Erm , we started off with was that , erm , we would just write down any word that came up to our head , in terms of relating it to the story i.e. we thought about memories , and memories Erm , this is gon na match up with your is n't it .
25 The NIO wants to know what has sparked the increase and ways of bringing it to an end , said the source .
26 The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre .
27 In this second part we shall look at what is required of a spiritual director and suggest some ways of exploring it as a personal resource .
28 He unspooled it , ripped it from the plastic , then rolled it in his palms before dropping it into an ashtray .
29 Actually the ganglion cells are responsible for preprocessing the information in sophisticated ways before relaying it to the brain , and in some ways the word " interface " does n't do justice to this .
30 Soler argued that the higher altitude of the Guadix area ( 900–1100m above sea level ) had prevented cuckoos from colonizing it in the past , as the species seems to favour lowland below 500m ( but see ref. 9 ) .
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