Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 2 | They have a third canal in a horizontal plane and beneath it a large sac . |
| 3 | Instead , it was in western Europe that the mechanical clock first appeared and with it a new type of civilization based on the measurement of time . |
| 4 | There had been earlier moves towards international integration , but the 1950s saw a new impetus and with it a new school of thought emerging to claim that the sovereignty of the state was being eroded . |
| 5 | Despite a new relationship between philanthropy and the state being forged , and with it a new role for the voluntary social worker , there remained the old focus on family , home , and character . |
| 6 | The 80s had arrived , and with it a new form of ‘ exercise ’ which caught on fast . |
| 7 | The pendulum has swung on both sides of the Atlantic , and if the sexual habits of urban America had been transformed in the 1960s by the so-called sexual revolution , then the small-town traditions of middle America found their own political voice a decade later , and with it a judicial response from the highest court in the land . |
| 8 | Shell have a large oil refinery at Stanlow near Ellesmere Port and with it a petrochemical works producing plastics . |
| 9 | But if the argument from error does rely on PC k , which on his theory is invalid , he lacks that independent support and with it a considerable degree of plausibility . |
| 10 | The day came , and with it a forty days , forty nights style rainstorm . |
| 11 | Now she thought ‘ Mother ’ deliberately , summoning up from a deep centre the bossy voice which had haunted her and with it a sweet softness , older still and loving . |
| 12 | But I could hear the breathy snarl that Mala makes when she is about to hurt someone quite badly , and with it a menacing series of grunts that could only be Gharrgoyles . |
| 13 | We see the younger brother 's personality reflected in his friend 's portrait of this atheist mathematical economist : the stony heights and rare atmosphere in which his mind moved ; the easy efficiency of the intellectual machine which ground away beneath his broad smiling face , his bulky Johnsonian frame , and spontaneous gurgling laugh , and simplicity of feeling , and honesty of heart and mind and purpose ; and with it a common sense and practicality . |
| 14 | Above the sink was a mirror composed of glass tiles stuck to the wall , and under it a simple glass shelf . |
| 15 | Under the window was an easel and a stool and beside it a battered chest of drawers . |
| 16 | Inside an alcove was a fridge , and beside it a two-ring gas stove . |
| 17 | Inside the door number four was a light-lock and beyond it a dark cubicle like a flight-deck of a large airliner . |
| 18 | There was nothing green there , only a high concrete wall , and beyond it a huge stretch of agitated grey water that frightened me . |