Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect . |
| 2 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |
| 3 | Trudgill writes : speakers are not capable of acquiring the correct underlying phonological distinction unless they are exposed to it from the very beginning , before they themselves have even begun to speak . |
| 4 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 5 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 6 | The court only intervenes when the tribunal is outside the ‘ scope ’ which has been assigned to it by the legislature ; the judiciary will not intervene if the tribunal has simply made an error within its assigned area since this would eradicate the distinction between review of legality and appeal . |
| 7 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 8 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 9 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 10 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 11 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 12 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 13 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 14 | DB2 is a relational DBMS , that is data structures are presented to it in the form of tables ; IMS views the data structures in terms of hierarchies ; and IDMS in terms of networks . |
| 15 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Intel 's hardware OEMs , already totally paranoid about delays to Pentium , are said to have been threatened with dire consequences , even lawsuits , if they leak any information about Pentium or the systems they 're building around it to the press . |
| 17 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 18 | I said you 're going about it with the wrong attitude ! |
| 19 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 20 | You do it all the time , they 're conditioned to it in the end . |
| 21 | Well you 're charged for it from the erm a private call but you 're not charged |
| 22 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 23 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 24 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 25 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 26 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 27 | While it was unquestionably the most important candidate for saving by the nation , if all efforts had been concentrated on it to the exclusion of others the nation would have lost Belton and Calke . |
| 28 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 29 | Similarly , unless it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances , a firm must not , in any written communication or agreement , seek to exclude or restrict : ( 1 ) Any other duty to act with skill , care and diligence which is owed to a private customer in connection with the provision to him of investment services in the course of regulated business ; or ( 2 ) Any liability owed to a private customer in connection with regulated business for failure to exercise the degree of skill , care and diligence that may reasonably be expected of it in the provision of investment services in the course of that business . |
| 30 | Homogeneous catalysts are compounds of metals that dissolve in the reaction mixture and which must be separated from it at the end . |