Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 2 | and behind it stasis and death . |
| 3 | There were recalls of the Jarrow marchers , as if a volcanic lava that was the death of security had devastated the country and with it peace of mind had gone for ever . |
| 4 | Individual householders , faced with the prospects of a water rate , showed as little enthusiasm for the benefits of water ( and with it sewage disposal ) in the home , so that when the Empire ended only half the city 's houses had running water . |
| 5 | Quality varies considerably and with it durability and price . |
| 6 | Phoebe felt an enormous , and unwelcome , surge of pity , of compassion and caring ; and with it guilt . |
| 7 | Alongside wealth had come materialism and with it injustice , the oppression of the poor , bribery and corruption and the abuse of the legal system by the wealthy — with one law for the rich and another for the poor . |
| 8 | Information would have to improve and with it accountability . |
| 9 | Easter came and with it Christie 's marriage . |
| 10 | The wood-louse had vanished , and with it Edward 's temporary distraction from his gloom . |
| 11 | Paris was behind us , and with it Mme Guérigny 's Sunday lunches , Félix , clandestine telephone conversations , and the plundering of my belongings . |
| 12 | Hope came into Nebamun 's eyes , and with it eagerness and desperation . |
| 13 | Their skins were the colour of walnut husks , and under it muscles bulged like sacks of melons . |
| 14 | This talk , too , was very much influenced by French fashions and preoccupations ; and from it Zeinab acquired the notion that it was possible for a single woman to set up house on her own . |
| 15 | Wherever the balance between expectations and cost may ultimately be struck , industry , and within it BP , must be part of the solution . |
| 16 | This was the first systematic survey of stone circles ever to be undertaken and in it Stukeley attempted to prove that the Druids , whom he believed built the circles , were the forefathers of Christianity . |
| 17 | I was reading a scum book at the weekend and in it Fergie was saying how Martin Edwards had cut Leeds down to 1 million for Eric the Fled by saying they only got him for 800k . |
| 18 | Set an example by requiring all engineers entering and already in government service to follow best practice in risk management , and in it role as a customer , to require suppliers to follow best practice . |
| 19 | It was called " Reunion by Destruction " and in it Eliot set out his reasons for opposing the idea of uniting the Anglican , Presbyterian , Congregationalist and Methodist churches . |
| 20 | The church tower loomed up from its promontory and beside it Theodora saw the solid block of the seventeenth-century Rectory . |
| 21 | But this programme was ruined by the Chernobyl disaster ; and without it perestroika had no chance of success . |
| 22 | It is a low rising hill above the waters of a loch and on it centre powers that only eagles of peace and truth can fully feel |
| 23 | The ground is white , and on it women 's skin is outlined in red , men 's and boys ' in black filled in with a pinkish colour , the same distinction as on the Thermon metopes ( above , p. 13 ) , and clothes are in flat washes of clear , bright red and blue . |
| 24 | A fierce blizzard raged for days , but through it Tallis saw the mother slip away to the south , carrying weapons and a bag . |
| 25 | The window of the charge room was high up in the wall , but through it Wycliffe could distinctly hear the strident voice of a woman teacher talking to her class . |
| 26 | There must be one flag , the Union Jack , but under it equality of races [ i.e. British and Boer ] and languages … but not before a loyal majority is assured ’ ; or again , ‘ if ten years hence there are three men of British race to two of Dutch , the country will be safe and prosperous ; if there are three of Dutch to two of British , we shall have perpetual difficulty ’ . |
| 27 | Change may cause disruption but without it improvements can not be made . |
| 28 | Adorno , says Susan Buck-Morss , argued that " aesthetic experience was in fact the more adequate form of cognition because in it subject and object , idea and nature , reason and sensual experience were interrelated without either pole getting the upper hand in short , it provided a structural model for " dialectical " , " materialist " cognition " . |
| 29 | It was a short stay , but the year was to be an important one , for during it Louis-Napoleon began to see new ways in which his devotion to the Bonapartist cause might be developed . |
| 30 | This interlude , however , does not mark a phase of anticlericalism on the part of the king , for during it clergy , like Kilsby , were prominent in the royal household and council and in lesser offices of state . |