Example sentences of "[prep] it the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | From a canoe the view was even more restricted : the looming hinterland was there , but was the beach below it the right landfall ? |
| 2 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 3 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 5 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 6 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 7 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 8 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 10 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 11 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
| 12 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 13 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 14 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 15 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |
| 16 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 17 | Corporal Blagg had spent his childhood — those parts of it the local authority had n't been able to control — in the courts , alleyways and concrete ‘ gardens ’ of Rotherhithe 's blocks of flats . |
| 18 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
| 19 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 20 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 21 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 22 | Seems he 's gone out of it the wrong way . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got something , all right , and the sooner I can get rid of it the happier I 'll be . |
| 24 | I do n't see how you could do a show , go to an analyst , work on a film and take ‘ poppers ’ or ‘ coke ’ or anything like it the whole time . ’ |
| 25 | The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash , exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon . |
| 26 | Bourgeois democracy was seen as a facade , concealing the fact that behind it the capitalist class continued to rule and dominate bourgeois society . |
| 27 | I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity . |
| 28 | This jumping-off line gave some order to the patrolling , and behind it the many administrative essentials could be organised . |
| 29 | Legislation in 1988 brought with it the central government decision to abolish the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) by 1990 , despite the opposition of 93 per cent of parents in Inner London . |
| 30 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |