Example sentences of "it [prep] various [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinhalese cattle medicine called for branding the animal with particular designs in order to give it strength or to cure it of various illnesses . |
| 2 | Then they tried it with various kinds of depression , even psychoses . |
| 3 | The figure is , precisely , that of the existence of a secret or an absent essence , and he traces it in various forms through a number of different tales . |
| 4 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 5 | The laird , Macleod , asked Johnson therefore to define ‘ the particular excellence of Burke 's eloquence ’ , and Johnson 's reply summarises not only Burke , but all men of such gifts , and it hymns education and the acquisition of learning : ‘ Copiousness , and fertility of allusion ; a power of diversifying his matter , by placing it in various relations . |
| 6 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 7 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 8 | The impact of technology is such that you can now do by electronic means a lot of things which were previously done by middle managers — collecting information , processing it , manipulating it in various ways : shunting it around the organisation . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps Spinoza could have strengthened it in various ways , by saying that people can not on odd occasions deliberately act out of the character they try to give their lives , without destroying that character , and that for the rational person the character of a life which includes good relations with other people at large is essential for personal fulfilment . |
| 10 | ‘ At the time one justified it in various ways . |
| 11 | When it has grown strong and healthy , you can display it in various ways . |
| 12 | ‘ You can translate it in various ways . |
| 13 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 14 | This category gives the pupils even greater control over the learning process by allowing the input data and manipulate it in various ways . |
| 15 | I 've heard it from various sources , but I do n't think it 's true . |
| 16 | Move around the image and look at it from various points of view . |
| 17 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 18 | He wrote this little publicity thing under the name Truth Shows and sent it to various places . |
| 19 | For seven years , Safarimoja kept track of the cassava , transplanting it to various places as he lived a nomadic hunting life . |
| 20 | The specifically indeterminate forms that inhabit the underside of misericords — birds with human heads , dragons with foliage tails — give way to bats , cats , men — on horseback or performing somersaults under the ledge to balance it on various parts of their anatomy . |
| 21 | They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages . |
| 22 | One of the tests of the success of this training in " picture reading " will be that pupils will gradually spend more and more time looking at the picture , and " reading " it at various levels ( see Box 4 ) . |