Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present map ( figure 3.1 ) shows an axis of high density extending broadly south-eastwards from the southern Pennines , where it takes in the industrial conurbations of Lancashire , Merseyside , and South Yorkshire , through the Midlands to the London conurbation . |
| 2 | There is a lot of blood ; it looks red where it seeps into the white sheets , black where it quietly pools . |
| 3 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
| 4 | Some of us went along and parked at Welshpool Station and took a look at the narrow-gauge line 's original terminus where it connected with the Cambrian Line . |
| 5 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |
| 6 | Where it ran into the special ceramic-and-leather codpiece that it tailored into most of my tights and leggings , a useful protection in many situations . |
| 7 | Yanto reached the end of the rock bridge where it disappeared into the hard sand The walking was now relatively easy as he made his way towards the first of the salmon traps , or kipes as they were called locally . |
| 8 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 9 | There is a curious contradiction here between Shedlock 's remark that the manuscript seems to have been copied up as Purcell completed the various numbers and his observation that it contains the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival — ; or , to be more precise , labelled ‘ new ’ where it appears in the 1693 word-book . |
| 10 | 15 years ago MOVIES were a major part of the schedules although the film of Up Pompeii starring Frankie ( Please yourself , missus ) Howerd was on back where it started on the small screen . |
| 11 | Why should the assumption of a perfect detachment be retained in ethics , where it amounts to the transparent fiction that I can , so to speak , stand outside myself , withdraw to a point of observing Ego witnessing unmoved even my own emotions ? |
| 12 | The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) , supported mainly by members of the scheduled castes , won one Lok Sabha seat and nine seats in the Assembly , where it emerged as the second party , having previously held no seats . |
| 13 | I have for instance discovered the Stars and Stripes flag of the 405th Fighter Group at Christchurch , Dorset , where it hangs in the ancient Priory . |
| 14 | MMT has two main lines of business : developing , implementing and supporting custom applications ; and software facilities management , where it looks after the day-to-day operation of a customer 's software . |
| 15 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 16 | The use of Form N111 , even if it has become ‘ obsolete , ’ was in fact more appropriate than the use of Form N79 , although it suffers from the same defect as the High Court form in that it does not draw the attention of the contemnor to his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 17 | It is convenient to discuss the architecture of this area separately , although it cuts across the geographical frontiers of a number of present day countries . |
| 18 | Whereas this job , although it centres around the similar sort of thing , has become much more diverse particularly in the last three or four years with our involvement with deposit of poisonous waste and site licensing … ; planning applications are referred to a lot more now than when I first started . |
| 19 | Although it decays into the short-lived iodine-132 , it is more mobile in the environment and the timing of its passage through the cow or human gut could be critical . |
| 20 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 21 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 22 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 24 | Claudia Schiffer , on the other hand , appears to represent a return to innocence and vulnerability , which has more in common with the glamorous screen goddesses of the 1930s than it does with the predatory allure of Sharon Stone . |
| 25 | Even in a socialist country like Tanzania , however committed one may be to the abolition of privilege in society , there is no arguing with the fact that young people with secondary and higher education can expect life to bring them a richer and more interesting experience than it does to the primary school leaver . |
| 26 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 27 | The basic idea can be captured in minutes and the total concept fully realised in , at most , a couple of hours , which is a lot faster than it takes for the same degree of finish to be achieved in any other medium . |
| 28 | This was more than it fell during the same stage of both the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions , but less than the short , sharp fall in 1980 . |
| 29 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 30 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |