Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Three Women , Bread and Fruit Dish is a work of extraordinary gravitas ; and it has about it a physicality and a presence seldom associated with ordinary still life . |
| 2 | It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries . |
| 3 | Miliband 's book is important because it contains within it a bridge between instrumentalist and structuralist accounts of the state and power in capitalist society . |
| 4 | For some strange reason the image of the corpse of Nicola Sharpe floated up in his mind , and it brought with it a breath of foreboding , a sense that he was in the presence of evil . |
| 5 | Rolle fingered his chest in consternation , trying to work out where this strange warmth had come from , but soon decided that it was from God , because it brought with it a flood of pleasurable and consoling emotion . |
| 6 | It had about it an air of doom . |
| 7 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 8 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 9 | Here , it carried with it the notion of breaking down not only the school/community barrier but also the school/curriculum barrier by suggesting that parents might be directly involved in the education of their children by participating in classes . |
| 10 | The fourth point is to check whether your choice of a particular subject calls for any prior knowledge or qualification ; or whether it carries with it the obligation to study a related subject . |
| 11 | The trouble with the ‘ functional ’ approach , however , is that it carries with it the risk that you will omit general considerations such as overall objectives and strategy . |
| 12 | It is never easy to come to terms with death — it brings with it a surfeit of emotions ; disbelief , anger , guilt , resentment and remorse . |
| 13 | The threat of liquidation by " shareholders ' is far more potent than in other forms , and it brings with it the threat that management will have no assets to manage . |
| 14 | ( iii ) I look forward to , but then usually fail to take much pleasure in , because ( a ) having reached it , there is no possibility of looking forward to it , and ( b ) it brings with it the prospect of ( i ) again . |