Example sentences of "[prep] it in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An accompanying central government preoccupation about local government in this period was the fact that it was becoming an increasing spender ( not surprisingly , in the light of central government 's expectations of it in areas like education , personal social services and housing ) . |
| 2 | Hypocrisy of this kind is familiar to us all , from our own practice of it and from our knowledge of it in others , whether real people or fictional characters , such as the puritan ministers in Ben Jonson 's The Alchemist . |
| 3 | The firm 's range , much of it in combinations of copper and brass , gradually increased to include numerous patterns of gas and electric lamp fittings , furniture decorations , and tea-kettles . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , in Europe as a whole , there is a great quantity of Romanesque work and much of it in buildings where a considerable portion is in the original style , though perhaps restored . |
| 5 | The agency took half her pay before she ever saw it , some of it in commissions for her bookings , the rest to pay her share of the rent on the miserable flat she shared with Trish and two other girls . |
| 6 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 7 | First of all you just think of it in words , the iron plus the oxygen gives iron oxide . |
| 8 | In its place is compacted human thought — a dense mass of paper , some of it in files , some of it in envelopes and parcels , a lot of it loose , all of it covered in typescript or print or handwriting . |
| 9 | Another $1 trillion is deployed otherwise , $150 billion of it in equities . |
| 10 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 11 | We like to think of it in terms of the ancient Greek idea of ‘ diata ’ which means literally ‘ a way of living ’ . |
| 12 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 13 | I thought a woman who was a little older and starting to feel a little out of it in terms of being attractive — had the sensuality but was losing it — might be more ambivalent about being raped . |
| 14 | We can think of it in terms of three levels . |
| 15 | i i perhaps in terms of if you think of it in terms of like the employer of the day , Well we 've paid an external trainer to come along , it 's actually costing us quite a lot of money . |
| 16 | Whether you pass an exam or not and you think to yourself , well they 're not really bothered about what you do , so that means you do n't really think of it in terms of , oh well , he is really taking pride in me or her and really want me to do well , it goes beyond just teaching me , it 's something personal as well . |
| 17 | Watts is actually energy per second but if we think of it in terms of hours cos we 've bought by , by , by hours . |
| 18 | Britain defines it in terms of competition and free trading ; most of the other countries conceive of it in terms of minimum operating standards . |
| 19 | The preparation ( it is difficult to think of it in terms of training ) of those who put radical reform into action requires vision , strength of mind and persistence . |
| 20 | These — this is what this group think of it in terms of some of the pros and cons . |
| 21 | In its place is compacted human thought — a dense mass of paper , some of it in files , some of it in envelopes and parcels , a lot of it loose , all of it covered in typescript or print or handwriting . |
| 22 | Paula Wilson , regional publicity officer for the RSPCA , said : ‘ We 've never known a time like it in years , people are ringing us every day asking to take animals off their hands , they just ca n't afford to keep them . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't think that the erm go into this properly and I do n't , I think will have dealt with it in lectures , but essentially there 's a common law principle that says if a matter is more prejudicial than evidential it should not be read . |
| 24 | That highly educated people who question every other kind of authority are often obsessed with it in matters of language is a constant source of wonder to me , and also of concern . |
| 25 | I had the photocopy stashed in a chart drawer and was back out with it in moments . |
| 26 | Well , if I may , Chair , I would like deal with it in terms of the principle or the policy and then the application to highways planning . |
| 27 | 4 chose to fight ; I did not re-stand and 3 linked up with it in constituencies where UUUC support was strong . |
| 28 | Yet despite its breakneck evolution , Medeva has been put together in pursuit of a definite strategic plan , and it looks as though the pharmaceutical world will become very familiar with it in years to come . |
| 29 | The fourth trip to Taï proved the most successful , though it was too late to include the footage from it in Trials of Life . |
| 30 | Green ( 1985 , p. 12 ) argues that ‘ the voices most strident in their demands of the ‘ protection of public services ' ’ are those of the middle-class government salariat' who gain directly from it in terms of income , employment and status . |