Example sentences of "[prep] it [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Further , it seems likely that although it may have been the case in the earlier nineteenth century that the proportion of the English population living in the higher-waged North increased both as a result of a higher natural rate of increase and from in-migration , in 1801 53 per cent of the population still lived south of the Severn/Wash line , while north of it counties like Herefordshire and Worcestershire were not high-waged . |
2 | The Leeds Permanent has converted 90 per cent of it members to fixed payments since last year . |
3 | Although there are no plans to wind the imprint down , the precise nature of it future within the group looks uncertain . |
4 | All of it grist to the mill of this young poet-in-the-making . |
5 | Trouble is it only comes on like it sort of early hours of the morning yeah . |
6 | Whe , when we went to the one in Twickenham , James really like it sort of go out for a ni Indian meal and stuff . |
7 | This previously hard-to-find Balearic tribal coaster has now been given the thumbs-up enough to get a bit of a push behind it courtesy of those spicy Power Promotions people , making sure that all the right channels are chosen ( ie , those DJs ) , which is pretty much all you need , really . |
8 | This discovery , that a combination can be stronger than a single individual , or a couple , marked a major step in humanity 's development as a species , but carried with it restrictions over sexual activity , because this leads to two people aiming to be independent from everyone else . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
11 | The idea that the acquisition of truth brings with it freedom from dependency on naive perceptions , falsehoods and ignorance is a key ingredient in the liberal conception of education . |
12 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |
13 | Fleetwood 's powers thus lapsed , and Blackpool retained control over the line , bringing with it responsibility for the track and the roadway up to 18″ on either side . |
14 | Japan 's incorporation into the US sphere of influence brought with it hostility with the Soviet Union . |
15 | Mhm aye it had something to do with it lot of lot of henhouses and that blown away . |
16 | It will be suggested here that , because each one of these terms carries with it connotations regarding what these processes are , ‘ learning ’ , ‘ acquisition ’ and ‘ development ’ are associated with different accounts of developmental change . |
17 | A crushing Unionist victory in 1915 , bringing with it disaster for the Labour party and a major setback for the " New Liberalism " might have ended the difficulty , but when the First World War intervened the problem remained . |
18 | In so far as this tendency brought with it loss of belief in survival , the Evangelicals may be said to have unintentionally contributed to the process . |
19 | So even those Protestants who do not believe that the Catholic Church would actually sanction a return to the thumbscrews if it thought it could get away with it view with profound misgivings the decline of the Protestant population of the Irish Republic from 330,000 in 1911 to 130,000 in 1971 . |
20 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
21 | Morality may not be the same as religion — although in many of the great religions this distinction is not clearly perceived — but sincerity in pursuing religion is normally expected to carry with it sincerity in pursuing a high moral code . |
22 | So you can just write under it acid plus |
23 | 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 ’ . |
24 | I 'm not really worried about it to be honest I 'm not worried about any of them , I thought I would actually be erm I 'm actually , we 're under a lot of pressure at the moment but I 'm not actually , usually when I 'm like that it 's all gone I tend to say well forget about it and you know run away from it kind of thing , |
25 | Surely no tide could have them if they clasped hands and fled from it side by side . |
26 | He was expounding a Sura , one of the parable-like stories of the Koran , extracting from it lessons for the faithful . |
27 | The first attempt was in winter , precisely at that dark , depressing period when the sun can barely be bothered rising for more than 20 minutes before it packs in and hands over to nightfall . |
28 | The Left tradition incorporated within it memories of war resistance between 1914 and 1918 , in which many leaders of the Labour Party had joined . |
29 | Durán , due to take office on Aug. 10 in succession to Rodrigo Borja Cevallo of the Izquierda Democratica ( ID — Democratic Left ) , completed the composition of his Cabinet on July 20 , and underlined his commitment to free-market policies by including in it members of the business sector . |
30 | not at all but , you know , there are tax advantages in it sort of thing erm . |