Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the present it will suffice to say that on this matter Lanfranc , no less than Anselm , would seem to have been content to rely on the tradition of the Canterbury monks , supported by documents which gave historical support to the testimony of the living word . |
| 2 | For the present it deals only with with the two expeditions that attract most excitement : Bosnia and Somalia . |
| 3 | More will be said below of their history in fiction ( chapter 4 ) ; for the present it is enough to notice that in this case , too , Sketches by Boz appears to mark a divide . |
| 4 | For the present it is sufficient to explain the term as the apparent increase in the size of a subject as the illumination intensity increases . |
| 5 | For the present it is assumed that the N ( No ) option is selected . |
| 6 | For the present it would be advisable not to report such allegations without giving the person defamed an opportunity to refute them in the same report . |
| 7 | For the implication it carries is that Kinnock is in truth a ravening left-wing wolf but briefly clad in the sheepish woolies of a moderate man . |
| 8 | The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from Loughborough University 's Research Fund , and would also like to thank their research assistant , Theresa Madden , for her invaluable help and the RIBA for the assistance it has rendered . |
| 9 | But the argument should be recognized for the fiction it is . |
| 10 | He sat smoking his cigarettes and reading the evening paper for the half-hour it took to accomplish these combined exercises , before leaving and getting into the tube at Bond Street . |
| 11 | For the sun it will shine in harvest time |
| 12 | I get another star , thing is he does n't actually , I can remember them cos he can read them , I do n't know whether she 's got them wrong for the test it 's a bit of a really is n't it eh ? come on |
| 13 | In 191O the Commandant of the French Staff College , exemplifying the orthodox military mind , declared that ‘ the aeroplane is all very well for a sport , for the army it is useless ’ . |
| 14 | Cos I 've the bill for the hotel it came in one lump as two hundred and four pound . |
| 15 | It should be clear now that whereas for Marx it is one 's economic class position ( crucially how one relates to productive property ) that determines much else in one 's life , for the Functionalist it is the status one has established through developing marketable skills and the value put on them by society that determines one 's life chances . |
| 16 | If it did , it will surely live forever in the annals of infamy ; but for the mapmaker it has ceased to exist . |
| 17 | Unusually for the PC it does n't require an environment manager like Windows or Gem which means it can run on a standard hard disk PC system . |
| 18 | Users value the network for the access it gives to computer and information resources on campus but perhaps even more so for the gateway it provides to JANET , the network linking hundreds of institutions and thousands of computers in the UK . |
| 19 | Andre says it is dangerous but you have to have respect for the sea it can be hard and punishing … |
| 20 | For the village it was the most exciting news in living memory . |
| 21 | making er the hay To make er That was in the harvest time for the harvest it would be oh nearly three three cart loads of sheaves for a for a stack . |
| 22 | The strengths of the theory are , first that it explains the perceptual phenomena I have just described , second that the brain has a real need for the operation it postulates , and third that it gives a role to a prominent but hitherto unexplained anatomical characteristic of the neocortex . |
| 23 | If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis . |
| 24 | But for the majority it was purity which provided the language both to challenge men 's immorality and to stake out their own claim to speak about sex . |
| 25 | Oh , you get the few stalwarts who come year after year , but for the majority it 's their one and only chance to be pampered , to see places they might otherwise never see . ’ |
| 26 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 27 | The Region 's policy of positive discrimination is impressive and commendable for the opportunity it provides for the provision of education in deprived areas . |
| 28 | For the Profitboss it is the most compassionate way of easing out Hugh Clarkson , the dyed-in-the-wool western region sales manager who 's had enough but ca n't afford to admit it . |
| 29 | For the Profitboss it is an opportunity to provide a new challenge to Steve Lockhart , the graduate trainee in Personnel who 's won the confidence of the line management in engineering . |
| 30 | It 's to warm up for the weekend it said . |