Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | It had been run nose-first into the boat house where it lay like a huge , sleek beast in an undersized pen , the deep V of the forward end tucked under the gallery on which the three of them were standing . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Major Malcolm Wallace , the British Olympic equestrian team manager , said last night : ‘ I 'm sure she will do everything in her power to keep equestrianism where it belongs as a strong and integral part of the Olympic movement . ’ |
| 8 | Looking to the future , this conflict should cease to arise ; race-awareness training is now integrated into basic training , where it sits as a natural part of discussions on impartiality and prejudice during the interviewing process and should have the benefits that CAB anti-racist policy intends . |
| 9 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 10 | The provisions of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act make the following statutory requirements of case managers : ‘ Where it appears to a local authority that any person for whom they may provide or arrange for the provision of community care services may be in need of any such services , the authority ( a ) shall carry out an assessment of his needs for those services and ( b ) having regard to the results of that assessment , shall then decide whether his needs call for the provision by them of any such services . ’ |
| 11 | Pr85 env , the initial translation product of the env gene forms oligomers , undergoes glycosylation and is proteolytically cleaved during its transport through the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus to the cell surface where it appears as a small transmembrane C-terminal domain p15(E) TM , linked noncovalently or by a disulphide bridge to a larger extracellular domain gp70 SU ( ref 25 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Liathach , like its neighbour , is best seen from a distance , a popular viewpoint being the private road to Coulin Lodge , where it towers as a great wedge across the waters of Loch Clair , after a short stroll from the pass road . |
| 15 | We scrambled over the chockstone of the Eye onto the plateau and wandered over shimmering snowfields to drink from the icy waters of the Garbh Uisge where it emerged from a shadowy blue tunnel before tumbling from the plateau . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | No security dealer may deal in securities where it acted as an issuing house or in securities issued by itself , or in securities issued by another company where the trader holds an equity interest in excess of 10 per cent . |
| 19 | It then settled to the seafloor , below the level of wave action , where it accumulated as an enriched iron deposit . |
| 20 | The Bill does nothing to increase the powers of the courts if order should break down inside a prison , although it touches in a new way on some of the matters relating to aiding and abetting an escape outside a prison . |
| 21 | The nadir was reached when the Royal 600cc class went out with only 10 starters and although it developed into a tremendous race between Joey Dunlop and Ian King , there was n't the strength in depth which we have come to take for granted . |
| 22 | Fuchs wanted to solve his finance problems by selling off two Picassos in order to set up an endowment fund : the attempt was foiled although it resulted in a healthy debate about de-accessioning in Dutch museums . |
| 23 | Although it felt like a miraculous coincidence for us at the time , it was more that we were all ready to grapple with this issue in our lives . |
| 24 | A purpose which is for the direct benefit of a particular class of persons ( other than a State institution ) is not charitable , although it results in an indirect benefit to the community . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Although it stands as an important account of new anthropological theory and purports to throw a revealing light on the social organisation of Balinese society , its carefully organised narrative is also a good story arranged so the shifts between Geertz 's account of his gradual development as an aficionado of cockfighting and the development of his theory of the social significance of this sport merge . |
| 27 | It promoted the use of marijuana , they said , although it started with an anti-drugs message . |
| 28 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |