Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 LEFT Through archaeology it possible to find out many details about ancient settlements , so that houses and the general landscape can be reconstructed fairly accurately .
2 Of course it all boils down to image .
3 Of course it all gets more complicated after that …
4 And of course it all ends happily when the Arab obviously can not bear to part with his horse :
5 Of course it all depends on the lady , on how well I know her .
6 ‘ I believe we have a chance of a good points finish , but of course it all depends on how we qualify on Saturday .
7 Even in times of peace it required constant vigilance to keep the peoples across the Rhine in check .
8 Back in the time of idealism it all seemed to connect : you trained more young people and the ‘ educated ’ sector of the economy would expand as a result .
9 In the cold light of day it all seemed so ridiculous .
10 In the frozen hours of dawn it all appeared rather benign , but on our return , some five weeks later , we were forced to run a sobering gauntlet .
11 Well , that just proved what a lot of mumbo-jumbo it all was , because the last thing that had happened had been that Luke infuriating Calder had exhibited any signs of being attracted to her … and vice versa !
12 erm something like play it cool boy I do n't know what it is , it 's really crap though .
13 I suppose for Australia it all started on Nov 2 when the Queen gave Nick Farr-Jones the World Cup at Twickenham , and rugby union 's Holy Grail thus passed into Australia 's hands …
14 She 's always been afraid , I think , to fully make a life for herself , in case she was missing out , in case it all changed .
15 Schefflera well I 'd put that along in case it that
16 and er he says there 's me , one in mention it any time you know
17 It 's not for music it one of those , his machine for work .
18 The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . "
19 The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . "
20 The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight .
21 She has any eye for detail and a steady hand to piece it all together .
22 And when Mick Stockwell slid over a low cross in the 73rd minute , Kiwomya was on hand to sidefoot it past goalkeeper Nigel Spink .
23 He did n't have the muscle to Dream it all up for himself .
24 Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky .
25 OK , on paper it all sounds like nausea-inducing stuff , the kind of thing that would cause any self-respecting Popkid to pack up his T-shirts and join the next peace convoy out of town .
26 It 's alright , you 're allowed to fridge it first . ’
27 Someone on Ardakke had managed to steak a small amount of phetam — and , probably , to spirit it off-planet .
28 To Anne it all seemed unreal .
29 ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days .
30 But when the Great Third War — ’ The War To End It All ’ as the old man had written in his journal — had failed to materialise , the whole cumbersome isolation-unit had been folded up and stored away , only the metal brace remaining , for the amusement of each new generation of Shepherd children .
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