Example sentences of "it is [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 2 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 3 | ‘ And sure , there is no harm in the other ranks having a wee drop before it is served up to the new Brigadier . ’ |
| 4 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |
| 5 | It is bound up with the family as a whole . |
| 6 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 7 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 8 | Once again the Macintosh has the upper hand with its graphics capability but for much of this market WYSIWYG is irrelevant , the trained operator ‘ knows ’ what 's going to happen to the text when it is run out on the page printer or phototypesetter . |
| 9 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 10 | If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom , for it is sticking out of the hole . " " |
| 11 | It is pointed out as the place where the warriors were buried . |
| 12 | The real test of any training , of course , is how well it is applied back at the workface , and apart from Neale 's role in P-E , only the coming cricket season will show him how effective the Grid can be . |
| 13 | It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life . |
| 14 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 15 | Second , the speed to go through an object before it is hit out of the way must be developed . |
| 16 | Often it is transported out of the upland valleys and spread out as fans at the upland edges . |
| 17 | In such a sample , the researcher specifies what type of people he or she wants in the sample , within broad categories ( quotas ) , and it is left up to the interviewer to find such people to interview . |
| 18 | But it is left up to the Customs and Excise to implement on-site inspection and seizure of animals . |
| 19 | But it is left up to the applications developers themselves to synchronise the directories by reading the various separate directories and then updating the StreetTalk database with any changes . |
| 20 | The essence of it is summed up in the old proverb : " Give a man a fish and he is satisfied for a day : teach him how to fish and he will be satisfied for the rest of his life . " |
| 21 | It is summed up in the words of Paul about his planned arrival in Rome : |
| 22 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |
| 23 | Pindar wrote the first poem of his career ( Pythian x ) for a Thessalian patron in 498 : This opening places Thessaly straight away in the centre of Dorian Greek culture ; the Aleuad dynasty in Thessaly is treated as a branch of the house of Herakles , that is , it is grafted on to the Dorian Peloponnesian tree . |
| 24 | However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world . |
| 25 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 26 | The preoccupation in the past has been with the total size of the health service budget , how it is shared out at the macro level , and how much activity it funds . |
| 27 | When the card is full , it is handed in to the station in exchange for a new one ; the old card is kept for reference . |
| 28 | Registered letter envelopes in different sizes can be obtained from the post office , or a stout envelope or package can be used by drawing blue lines across the face before it is handed in to the post office . |
| 29 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 30 | I 'd like to move a petition containing seven hundred and twelve signatures , residents of Broadstone who request the installation of a pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane , bottom end of Shakespeare Drive and propose that it is passed on to the environment committee for consideration . |