Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his diary , he records Denis Healy 's description of it prior to his arrival . |
| 2 | Of course , the label or promotional literature as constituting a representation would have to induce the representee to enter the main contract of sale and he would have to know of it prior to the contract . |
| 3 | Not a classic illustration of the thesis of Aggleton and colleagues , who have been looking at the lifespans of cricketers and report a two-year gap in favour of right-handers , much of it ascribable to fewer deaths in accidents or in war . |
| 4 | When the basic style is agreed , the computer draws a two-dimensional pattern of it complete with stress points marked . |
| 5 | Rosa Mentasti has brought together some wonderful glass , much of it new to this reviewer . |
| 6 | There is a great deal of information here , much of it new to us , and the book is a valuable addition to the reference collection of anyone interested either in this always-turbulent region or in special forces generally . |
| 7 | The bid attracted intense media attention , most of it critical of Mr Knighton , an Isle of Man tax exile who became a millionaire through property dealings in Yorkshire and Scotland . |
| 8 | Here a late-19th century district of five or six storey apartments arranged along narrow gridiron streets was suffering from many of the environmental problems characteristic of inner-city areas — lack of greenery , unsafe junctions , chaotic parking conditions and fast traffic , much of it rat-running between neighbouring traffic generators such as the railway station to the south and the four-lane Rhein Allee to the north . |
| 9 | Substantial losses have occurred of semi-natural vegetation and wildlife habitats , notably moorland and rough grassland , much of it attributable to agricultural intensification ( especially cultivation and reseeding ) . |
| 10 | Revenues from non-System V products such as Transaction Processing and Networking were up $5.2m or 54% , most of it attributable to Services . |
| 11 | I have the memory of it perfect in here , ’ and he stood with his hand spread on the top of his head , while the full implications sank into Gabriel 's . |
| 12 | The American government owns one-third of the nation 's land , much of it rich in resources . |
| 13 | The simple-mindedness of their consideration makes the object of it complex in comparison — so complex that it becomes difficult to understand how mere mortal man has ever managed to enjoy anything . |
| 14 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 15 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 16 | The unravelling of their chemistry has been one of the great achievements of 20th century science , a large part of it due to sir Norman Haworth , whose studies in this field spanned more than 30 years . |
| 17 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
| 18 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 19 | Much of what Patsy told her on that important morning , must have been therapeutic to Patsy , baffling to Shanti , and much of it unknown to me . |
| 20 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |
| 21 | He 'd have done a par about the lead in his pencil if you 'd asked him — a stick and a half — a column — whatever you needed ; and all of it full of wit and erudition . ’ |
| 22 | prior to the departure of the Iwakura Mission , the Meiji regime too had started a limited programme of industrialization and social change , much of it contingent on the dismantling of the political , social and economic structure that had prevailed under the Tokugawa . |
| 23 | It 's quite good property much of it antique of high value . |
| 24 | From Booth onwards , there has been a strong tradition of empirical social research in Britain , much of it concerned with studies of poverty and other matters of social welfare . |
| 25 | The disciplines for Educational Studies and that area of it concerned with teacher education ( Tibble , 1966 ) . |
| 26 | In an effort to deal with the growing problem of industrial pollution , the Hong Kong government has started to collect chemical waste and dispose of it free of charge . |
| 27 | I hope that Mr Cunningham will go to his Senior Common Room to borrow a copy of the Mail on Sunday , where he is , in effect , told off by Maeve Binchy : ‘ It 's a story where almost all sex is joyful , a lot of it carefree , most of it responsible in that puppy-like Lysander [ the main character ] usually remembers his condom . |
| 28 | These features develop if the back-arc lithosphere behind the orogen is moving towards it relative to the underlying asthenosphere , since this convergence will probably lead to partial subduction of the back-arc lithosphere . |
| 29 | Others like it available for interested groups . |
| 30 | It will be a great occasion and we go into it full of confidence in ourselves . ’ |