Example sentences of "it [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 2 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 3 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 4 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 5 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 6 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 7 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 8 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 9 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 10 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 11 | Those who have a real interest will leave it for a few years before attempting training . |
| 12 | Lisa struck a pose of melodramatic fervour and held it for a few seconds before slumping back in her seat . |
| 13 | On those grounds , the court in reply to the questions referred to it for a preliminary ruling by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales , Queen 's Bench Division , by order of 10 March 1989 , hereby rules : |
| 14 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 15 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 16 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) compiling his catalogue of specimens in the MCZ recognised it as a new species of Ophiolebes . |
| 17 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 18 | In fact , I often look back to that conference and , for more than one reason , regard it as a turning point in my life . |
| 19 | Although nominally Producer and Script Editor for the series , neither John Wiles nor Donald Tosh had much to do with this serial , the former greatly resenting it as a three-month obstacle to his attempts to raise Doctor Who towards a more sophisticated and adult level . |
| 20 | But the Arts Council stepped in to buy the place in 1976 and re-opened it as a traditional theatre with Frank Carson in pantomime in December 1980 . |
| 21 | For example , followers of Islam would regard it as a blatant affront to the omnipotence of Allah/ God that He should be confined within a mortal frame , yet they accord Jesus an important role as a prophet . |
| 22 | When it comes to the mother-in-law/son-in-law relationship , this is often a little less complicated , in spite of all those mother-in-law jokes that depict it as a continuous battle between a slightly hen-pecked , but still spirited little man , and his wife 's fierce , ugly , overweight mother . |
| 23 | It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique . |
| 24 | example An essay which describes the narrative of Alasdair Gray 's novel Lanark and interprets it as a symbolic representation of the state of contemporary Scotland . |
| 25 | Joyce accepted it as a necessary tactic by Hitler . |
| 26 | And then I said well I will buy it as a joint sort of joint family Christmas present |
| 27 | Instead of thinking of it as a zero-sum game in which one side gains what the other loses , they are beginning to regard it as a positive-sum game from which both sides may gain , provided both play with skill and finesse . |
| 28 | Given our ration of luck , we can then ‘ spend ’ it as a limited commodity over the course of our explanation of our own existence . |
| 29 | The previous owner had parked a large , old-fashioned caravan at the back and the Canadian had made no difficulty about letting this to Neil for two pounds a week , seeing it as a useful way of having someone to keep an eye on the property . |
| 30 | Erm but it w saw it as a useful experience in a clearance exercise , which |