Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb base] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understand what it is we are trying to achieve by cutting off a lot of top growth , and the where , when and how of it lose much of the mystery . |
| 2 | However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding . |
| 3 | Mark the centre of it go all the way round with that . |
| 4 | Does the association of low pitch with authority and high pitch with lack of it have any reasonable basis , or is it simply a sexist prejudice through which everything that marks a speaker out as female becomes a cause for complaint and a proof of inferiority ? |
| 5 | Haemoglobin is doing an important job in the blood , and its details really matter ; but several alternative variants of it seem capable of doing the job equally well . |
| 6 | ‘ Ewbank 'd inside and Atco 'd out , the English suburban residence and the garden which is an integral part of it stand trim and lovingly cared for ’ ( Richards , 1946 ; 1973 edn , p. 13 ) . |
| 7 | I know that the bloke who tucked you up will get off with it scot free . |
| 8 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 9 | A second visionary experience was required to create the world of the archetypal stage , the skene , and with it make true drama possible . |
| 10 | And some masticate earth with saliva to produce a cement that sets as hard as rock and with it build some of the most magnificent and complex mansions to be found anywhere on earth except for those made by mankind . |
| 11 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |
| 12 | There was water at the bottom covered by a thin skin of ice and he splashed into it face first . |
| 13 | Second , three of the variables incorporated into it have negative signs , indicating that as the number of pixels of these types increases , so population decreases . |
| 14 | The Companies Act 1989 and regulations made under it allow listed companies to issue summary financial statements to those shareholders who do not wish to receive the full annual report and accounts . |
| 15 | In the home however , they soon adapt to their owner 's timetable , often to the extent that deviations from it induce erratic behaviour which can develop into a full-blown eating disorder . |
| 16 | The unsatisfactory nature of project evaluation work and the inconclusive lessons which can be drawn from it provide little justification for the donor ‘ omniscience ’ which continues to characterize their negotiations with recipients . |
| 17 | Within it lie circumpolar continental , maritime and periantarctic zones , the first bounded by the 0°C summer isotherm , the second by the northern limit of pack ice . |
| 18 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |
| 19 | Each student will have their own coursework folder , and in it keep all of their work including the question paper set by the tutor , their answers and a copy of the tutor 's assessment , for each of the five subject areas . |
| 20 | Approaching death should be viewed in it own personal cultural and religious perspective for the person concerned . |
| 21 | In it stand two heroes playing the lyre ( one no doubt Orpheus ; a third figure is lost ) , and at either end , outside the ship , a horseman , the Dioscuri again : and all these figures are absolutely frontal like statues . |
| 22 | An exception was sometimes allowed if a second home was occupied by a dependent relative , who lived in it rent free . |
| 23 | Of course , it 's her house , and everybody 's living in it rent free ; but even so , surely it is , well , you know … time ? |
| 24 | But as far as that 's concerned , er I mean the , the house can be passed over to you , and would then become , er you would own the house but er unless you dispose of it , there 'd be no liability to a gain , and er of course , at that time er if your parents in it rent free at the time of their er leaving the house , then you could then dispose of that without erm erm er liability . |
| 25 | Twenty add three , put the brackets round it show that 's one number we have to work out what that is first . |
| 26 | If they can establish that literacy in itself constructs superior logical functions , then it will follow that those without it have inferior logical functions . |
| 27 | The plants outside it seem unaffected . |
| 28 | As the difficulties in holding to it become clear so we examine the exact opposite — its antithesis . |
| 29 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 30 | There is a great healing tradition within the evangelical Charismatic Movement , and those who adhere to it believe this healing is about seeking out the devil and ridding the possessed of this influence . |