Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 2 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 3 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 4 | Property shares will get a shot-in-the-arm should one of their over-geared number announce that its bankers are backing it into the New Year , rather than pulling the plug . |
| 5 | Oh , I 've no doubt that somewhere down the line these things are are built it , but what I 'm saying is that the majority of dealers these days are including it within the package and saying look this vehicle comes with it completely because there is such erm a demand for this erm type of insurance . |
| 6 | Amid the disillusionment felt by some , that the minority of farmers are spoiling it for the rest in not keeping the environment clean , one manufacturer at least , hopes not dampened by the weather , felt there was room for optimism . |
| 7 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 8 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 9 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 10 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 11 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 12 | Detectives are linking it with a series of recent armed robberies , and warn the men could inflict serious injury . |
| 13 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 14 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 15 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 16 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 17 | Anyway , have n't you seen how canny Labour and the Liberal Democrats are playing it on a pact between the two of them ? |
| 18 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |
| 19 | The alternative to burying cable in the walls is to run it on the surface in mini-trunking , and then use surface-mounted light switches . |