Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said
2 For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual .
3 I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world .
4 It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief .
5 Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes .
6 It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs .
7 I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train .
8 One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ?
9 It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’
10 Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not
11 Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial .
12 The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm .
13 BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s .
14 January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles .
15 It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’
16 The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above .
17 It says nothing about the actual conditions of re-identification of any such topic .
18 Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age .
19 It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary .
20 It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook .
21 It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue .
22 A joint initiative between BMW and Bolney Motors , it recycles everything in the damaged cars that are sent there for ‘ treatment ’ .
23 And I 'm thinking work on your , work on your hard drive and when you 've got it the way you want it and when you 've got it the way you want it save it to the floppy and
24 Such rationalization is , however , of great interest to the historian because it reveals something of the social processes involved in gaining respect for scientific work both inside and outside a scientific community .
25 And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place !
26 The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead .
27 Change was a mass movement ; it owed nothing to the puny efforts of the individual .
28 The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write .
29 It takes one to the high , isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season .
30 Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant .
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