Example sentences of "[prep] it a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The defendant was held liable for trespass , for ‘ the right to the possession draws after it a constructive possession , which is sufficient to support the action . ’ |
2 | This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact . |
3 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
4 | It was surrounded by a splendid park , and its superb gardens ornamented with fountains and a magnificent cascade made of it a cool and airy summer residence . |
5 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
6 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
7 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
8 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
9 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
10 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
11 | Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use . |
12 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
13 | So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry . |
14 | There is a double set of front pockets on each side — first a zipped pocket and in front of it an open patch pocket , and both are excellent , deep pockets . |
15 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
16 | They produced a file which they said was his and took out of it an indistinct , green photograph of someone carrying a parcel . |
17 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |
18 | But she was cooking and she was going you take , she goes , she goes , some people like it a little bit on the side , you know , with their food , some people on the side . |
19 | Underneath it a second note reads , ‘ Capt FitzRoy Parrot beaked finch comes from James Island ’ . |
20 | ‘ But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon . |
21 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
22 | They have a third canal in a horizontal plane and beneath it a large sac . |
23 | It has behind it a powerful cluster of motivating forces , accompanied by a theory of motivation which , however inadequate , works sufficiently to keep the system going . |
24 | A railway engine was puffing slowly through Barnes Bridge station dragging behind it a long string of heavily laden wagons . |
25 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
26 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
27 | The linear trim position indicator runs immediately behind it a red pointer moving back and forward to markings numbered either side of a central zero . |
28 | It does n't detach itself completely , though ; as it falls , it draws out behind it a thin , flexible thread of glass , which seems to stretch almost indefinitely . |
29 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
30 | Equally , the current trend of research councils to favour formal training , an important component of which for history will be computing and methodology , should bring with it a fuller measure of recognition of the skills acquired by the computer-using historian ( Denley 1990 ; Kruse 1991 ) . |