Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It also need have no privileges , since those required are passed to it by the initiator ( ie. the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |