Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Once the spit starts to form material is pushed along it by longshore drift , thus leading to its continued growth until it reaches water so deep that wave action is destructive . |
| 3 | Agreements were also signed on Kaliningrad ( administratively part of Russia but separated from it by Lithuanian territory ) , and on the rights of each population in the other republic . |
| 4 | Skelton Village and the area of D thirty nine and D forty form no part of the built area of York , but are separated from it by open country . |
| 5 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 6 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 7 | An envelope with Zach written on it in bold lettering was stuck to the inside of the lid . |
| 8 | All four men 's evidence agreed that the assailant was wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt with the word ‘ authentic ’ written on it in white lettering , and that he was between five foot eight and five foot ten inches tall . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by : ( a ) the executors , representatives or disponees of any person who held a licence in respect of premises situated within the area of the board and who has died before the expiry of the licence ; or ( b ) the trustee , judicial factor or curator bonis of any person holding such a licence who has become bankrupt , insolvent or incapable before the expiry of the licence ; transfer the licence to the applicant if the applicant is in possession of the premises . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by a person other than an individual natural person , substitute another employee or agent of the applicant for the employee or agent mentioned in section 11 or 26 of this Act . |
| 11 | That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 13 | We do n't know what he had thought about it before this moment when Jesus spoke directly ‘ Follow me ’ . |
| 14 | well I 'm sorry but from where I 'm looking at it sixty two but not that I 've thought about it in any depth but |
| 15 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 16 | We 've just talked about it in this room . |
| 17 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 18 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |
| 19 | There 's a process getting the kids used to it with dummy running so that the picture you get is a realistic one . |
| 20 | However I must have played with it for that tool set led to Dad 's most embarrassing moment — something which he never ever let me forget . |
| 21 | In fact , I think that we all get affected by it through prolonged exposure . |
| 22 | So have you ever , in terms of the crime , have you ever been affected by it in any way |
| 23 | It had different results for various sections in the community , but all were affected by it in some way , either directly or indirectly . |
| 24 | And it is the healthy CV system that can cope easily with all the strains placed upon it by modern living . |
| 25 | That the Church in the form in which it was re-established eventually survived the Puritan onslaught was to a large extent due to the philosophical and historical basis which was provided for it with formidable learning by Richard Hooker . |
| 26 | When economic distress forced a widespread unrest among the lower agricultural ranks at the height of Edward 's Protestant reforms in 1549 , Arundel had coped with it without overt force , using his traditional authority , with ‘ the people , having no small experience of his honor , and bearing dutiful affection unto him , as their ancient and chiefest lord of that country ’ . |
| 27 | The picture which emerges from this kind of work highlights collective action and collective advantage , but often says little about whether all the individuals involved in this enterprise benefited from it in equal measure . |
| 28 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 29 | Although in his work using transformational grammar , Ohmann neglected this function , he has concentrated on it in subsequent work . ) " |
| 30 | ‘ The Bank of England ( in this Act referred to as ‘ the Bank ’ ) shall have the powers conferred on it by this Act and the duty generally to supervise the institutions authorised by it in the exercise of those powers . |