Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 2 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 3 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 4 | The report contains comments from policymakers in borrowing countries , much of it criticizing Bank officials for ignoring local input while implementing policies decided at Bank headquarters . |
| 5 | The front of it had oak beams and curved glass in the shape of a Wurlitzer jukebox . |
| 6 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
| 7 | None the less , large sums of public money are still being spent on drainage , much of it to improve farmland . |
| 8 | She thirsted for it , imagining the cool wind of it cascading life into her lungs . |
| 9 | The moon , the mountains , the man — himself — standing there in the darkness : none of it made sense to him . |
| 10 | None of it made sense . |
| 11 | The result was to show that the chance of advertising bans or very rigid controls affecting prevalence was about 95% , and the chance of it affecting consumption was about 90% . |
| 12 | Before making such an order , the Inland Revenue must be given notice of the application of not less than twenty-eight days and if the Inland Revenue object , it must submit a written statement of the grounds and ensure that an officer of it attends court on the hearing of the application ( r 6.194 ) . |
| 13 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 14 | The diversity of material was due to the fact that much of it came courtesy of local mill-owners . |
| 15 | In 1898 the Great Western Railway conveyed 5,978 tons of broccoli from Cornwall , much of it going north via Didcot , Birmingham , and Crewe . |
| 16 | On 9 October , 1957 the atomic pile of No. 1 Reactor at Windscale in Cumberland , north-west England , began to overheat and part of it caught fire . |
| 17 | The CAB has developed considerable skill in training , as this chapter has demonstrated , and much of it has relevance outside the CAB as well as inside . |
| 18 | Faith is one of the forces by which men live , and the total absence of it means collapse . |
| 19 | The way you say that it sounds like crap , but I guess the essence of it makes sense . |
| 20 | ‘ None of it makes sense , ’ Goodenache said finally . |
| 21 | Unfortunately Mrs Buckley could n't sing a note in tune ; her throat sounded like it had gravel down it . |
| 22 | But there 's a , then underneath it goes record stroke underneath it , battery . |
| 23 | It had been advocated countless times , but prejudice against it held sway , and it was argued that identifying players would pander to their individual egos . |
| 24 | If you want to do some writing with it to explain earth rotates half way in twelve hours that 's up to you . |
| 25 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 26 | But the national church organization , which the papacy had encouraged , brought with it lay investiture , the giving to the bishop of the ring and staff and the performance of homage to the ruler . |
| 27 | A universal set of features is an attractive idea , but the price one pays is that each feature has to do many jobs , and the meaning associated with it gets spread thinner and thinner , like a small amount of butter on a large amount of bread . |
| 28 | The second point is that , when ambiguity increases sharply , that is the time when people who can resolve that ambiguity by setting new organizational values to cope with it gain power . |
| 29 | The EOC reports that it was apparent that the Society 's mobility requirement and a candidate 's ability to comply with it gave rise to both direct and indirect discrimination . |
| 30 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |