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 | Carbon rubber , or derivations of it such as Goodyear Indy 5000 or AHAR , is durable but firm ; blown rubber is lighter but less resistant . |
| 6 | There was no fierce detestation of it such as loyalist unionists had for Faulknerite unionists or Sinn Féin republicans for SDLP republicans . |
| 7 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 8 | The apple as symbol is all around us but most of us would still think of it first as a tasty snack . |
| 9 | Rosa Mentasti has brought together some wonderful glass , much of it new to this reviewer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 12 | The deeply integrated place of the artefact in constituting culture and human relations has made discussion of it one of the most difficult of all areas to include in abstract academic discourse . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The worst of it all to me is that I never guessed anything . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you want us to get rid of it all for you ? ’ the man asked . |
| 17 | There will be many things for her to think about and remember , at a time when she may be feeling quite disturbed emotionally , and you can do much to ease the strain of it all for her . |
| 18 | The shrewd little girl from Australia had no intention of following others who had been eaten by the star system and dumped at the end of it all with nothing . |
| 19 | That wily old fellow Javed Miandad came out of it all with a commendation for trying to calm his prayers . |
| 20 | The two popular actors left it to director Richard Donner to make sense of it all at the end of the day . |
| 21 | It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting . |
| 22 | As far as I can tell , Guitarist has always welcomed valid criticism and suggestions for changes or new ideas , but that does n't mean that they have to follow all of it all of the time . |
| 23 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 24 | Evolution is presented as a progression from simple to complex forms with us at the pinnacle of it all as the most complex . |
| 25 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 26 | You travelled in a series of zigs and zags , keeping a record of it all in a notebook — the bearing on which you were travelling , the time of the start and end of each leg … . |
| 27 | I can hear the murmur of it all in my head , and smell the sweet air . |
| 28 | I suppose what I was asked and what I said in reply will be subject to the ‘ 30 year rule ’ — and heaven knows what any archivist will make of it all in the year 2012 ! |
| 29 | ‘ Tony and Stephen are still at home and Terry 's safe out of it all in Germany , Joe 's safe too training the young lads , and so is Eileen . |
| 30 | , left , and are certainly on top of it all in the steeping area . |