Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 2 | Island Graphics says it has added multimedia features to IslandPresents , the graphics packages it introduced back at Uniforum , and has started delivering it for Sparc-based systems fitted with Open Look and Open Windows 3.0 . |
| 3 | The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing . |
| 4 | The UK Committee on the Safety of Medicines regularly provides General Practitioners with questionnaires with which to inform it of any irregularities encountered in the use of new , but already licensed , drugs . |
| 5 | In fact the United States was already tilting towards Israel in order to prevent its economic collapse but intending to ‘ progressively reduce the amount of economic aid to Israel , so as to bring it into impartial relationship to aid to others in the area ’ . |
| 6 | And you also see the other function of the relief road as a means of distributing local traffic er around the fringe of Harrogate er and trying to push it onto other radials to get into the town centre . |
| 7 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 8 | Kate tried to ignore his admiring glance , but she could n't help blushing a little , which showed how much off balance she was because normally she was so used to this sort of conversation that she could , as it were , verbally handle it with one hand tied behind her back . |
| 9 | For a start , it will be necessary to invest it with sufficient authority to act with independence and integrity as a basis for effective oversight of the financial reporting process . |
| 10 | The dependency structure representing the reading was converted into a network form , and enriched by conflating it with definitional information associated with the word senses it contained . |
| 11 | There was a bench at one side of it with empty tea cups on it and some comic papers . |
| 12 | He lifted the object he was carving , lifted it with both hands to show to her . |
| 13 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 14 | The meteorology men told him his wind strengths at his chosen altitude of 50,000 feet , and he worked out he would make it in 5.4 hours flying at Mach . |
| 15 | Figs 3 and 4 were generated by a flexible PostScript generator , show , which can either summarize the entire data-set on a single page , or show it in greater detail spread over several pages . |
| 16 | And clearly I would say that rather than to cross it in that column shown to the A sixty four north that Mr shows , it should be the converse and at least a tick , if not two . |
| 17 | Now we could n't have him in this year to give the others a chance so this is how you voted for the nineteen ninety three racing personality of the year on Channel Four and let's take it in reverse order starting with the person who finished fourth . |
| 18 | The electron is made to pass through a magnetic field which deflects it in different directions according to the different orientations of the spin . |
| 19 | Or was it in some way connected with her pallor and unsteadiness remarked upon by Dr Pringle ? |
| 20 | Cereal farmers are using less nitrogen fertiliser and have changed the way that they apply it in direct response to concern over nitrogen pollution , according to a report form the Home Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 21 | Alexander also did much to augment the common fund for resident canons at Lichfield , reserving pensions to it from several churches appropriated to monastic houses , securing the endowment of Lichfield 's sacristy and of chaplains celebrating masses to the Virgin , and continuing the rebuilding of Lichfield Cathedral begun by his predecessors . |
| 22 | They called a protest strike for Aug. 21-23 , leaving it to individual parties to decide on a boycott . |
| 23 | As he spoke , he was drawing back slightly , capturing her hand and carrying it to tumescent flesh pulsing with vigorous life . |
| 24 | A particular , and in representational terms crucial , development of this new activism ( and one which links it to other movements based on class , gender , colour , and so on ) is the de-biologising nature of the disability . |
| 25 | Presumably the loch — lochan , rather , for it is not large — is fed by springs eternally replenished by the rain , for nothing flows into it except small burns seeping through rush and bog myrtle , which spread after storm into sodden quagmires of moss . |
| 26 | D is not required to prove any of this : in a murder trial , if there is sufficient evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , the judge is bound to leave provocation to the jury , and the burden of disproving it beyond reasonable doubt lies upon the prosecution . |
| 27 | So , to be safe it would be wise to use it at any time flying above 10,000 feet . |