Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain this is a ground nesting bird of the open country , and there is no record of it entering caves , but like the snowy owl it could have altered its behaviour during colder stages of the Pleistocene . |
| 2 | The history of attempts to control and regulate corporate crimes does not give much cause for optimism , and indeed the idea of it reduces radicals to knowing laughter . |
| 3 | The department co-operates with Oxford Brookes University in teaching a new Master 's course in Historic Conservation ; the course is modular in form , and part of it entitles students to a certificate awarded by the department . |
| 4 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 5 | However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification . |
| 6 | And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends . |
| 7 | The formality of the occasion slightly spoiled as Sadat and about thirty Egyptian officials waved goodbye ; the Shah turned the 707 too soon and his hosts were exposed to the full blast of it taxiing engines . |
| 8 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |
| 9 | This reply raises large issues ; but chapter 5 contains a lengthy argument that if there is any non-inferential knowledge , some of it concerns things other than our sensory states — so why not sheep , for instance ? |
| 10 | Sir Christopher said : ‘ The treaty is far from perfect and much of it concerns issues that should be debated more thoroughly . |
| 11 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 12 | At its inception the BMC adopted a positive attitude towards it training commitments ; it recognised a duty to foster the safe training of young climbers . |
| 13 | Ah , you got ta go past it to collect wages . |
| 14 | Internal squabbles will never divide this nation like it has others because America has a constitution that will ultimately hold it together , despite some stretching at the seams . |
| 15 | The form most frequently found is the barn with lean-tos built against it to provide cow-houses , stables or cart-shed . |
| 16 | The pilot stayed with his aircraft and steered it away from the school and bravely died with it to save others . |
| 17 | In a short speech of thanks , Bill told us that he was ‘ heading on down ’ to a DIY megastore with it to purchase drills , saws and other paraphernalia necessary for home improvements which is his first project in retirement . |
| 18 | With it came strings of skin , leaving Zulei 's skull pitted with the strip-mines of her disease . |
| 19 | I reckon she 's overly keen on coke and spends too much time in clubs , but maybe I 'm just jealous ; my cub-reporter status on the Caley and the triumph-of-miniaturisation salary that goes with it make habits that expensive out of the question . |
| 20 | It 's cheap , it 's easily available and playing with it teaches children all about weight , volume , the way liquids behave — and how to have fun ! |
| 21 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 22 | Once you decide to get rid of a Windows application , it 's vital to make copies of any important data you 've created with it to make copies of any important data you 've created with it before embarking on a ‘ slash and burn ’ policy . |
| 23 | The impact of the National Curriculum and all the changes it brings with it gives heads a pressing reason — just as Mr Baker 's off-the-peg allocation of incentive allowances gives them an opportunity — to review the structures and responsibilities of management in their schools . |
| 24 | You should also work into it check lists for each month with every detail you can think of , and have an arrangement for assessing the event after it has happened . |
| 25 | A series which is broadcast each week has a number of features designed into it to help viewers recognise " their " programme and encourage them to watch it at the same time every week . |
| 26 | The elaboration and detail of the scheme and the variety of techniques available under it to protect investors suggests that it would be wrong to assume that the statute and its rulemaking powers should be interpreted as being in the shadow of the common law . |
| 27 | They have room within it to welcome strangers and make them friends . |
| 28 | Rather , it invents a sort of simplified version of the training set : When the net has finished learning , the nodes in it form clusters of just a few points which each reflect much larger clusters in the training set . |
| 29 | ‘ At the end of the day all of us are in it to sell records . |
| 30 | She had one made out of ice … with ROOMS in it to keep prisoners in . |