Example sentences of "[prep] it in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these that the ‘ grammatical rules of school textbooks ’ were derived , at least until the work of descriptive linguistics in this century , and perhaps still despite it in some cases . |
| 2 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 3 | What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility . |
| 4 | Apart from disturbing the wrong occupants , the gallery was open to the hall below it in several places and she might be seen . |
| 5 | The waste , including banned pesticides and fungicides , much of it in inadequate containers , was produced by companies in the former East Germany . |
| 6 | I mean I guess I 've got as many inner tensions as most of us , but I do n't think of it in that way . |
| 7 | I am doubtful ; I suggest that we have all just become more aware of it in recent years , more ready to take it into new forms . |
| 8 | Well a ponch er it 's sort of made of wood , and got a got a handle crosswise which you held in one half of it in each hand , it had a stem , and on the on the ponch itself was a sort of er piece of wood that had been er cut out to have about four , I think it was four , legs on this , you see and you used to stand over the ponch and |
| 9 | This remains an attractive option for some educators as can be seen in the Design Council supported Design Dimension Project ( Baynes , 1985 ) and there are echoes of it in many of LEA programmes supported by the Arts in Schools Project ( Schools Curriculum Development Committee , 1986a , 1986b and 1986c ) . |
| 10 | It could be prudent to ‘ invest ’ some of it in good financial advice . |
| 11 | Invergordon did not have an easy time of it in 1992 , a fact reflected both by turnover , down 8 per cent at £85 million , and operating profits , down 3.8 per cent at £35.3 million . |
| 12 | Wilberforce doubted that humanitarian zeal had sufficient staying power despite his own and others ' expression of it in 1792 . |
| 13 | There is a lack of historical evidence relating to the Barwick-in-Elmet maypole before a poem by Edward Burlend described the stealing of it in 1829 ( an event reminiscent of Gawthorpe maypole 's early history ! ) . |
| 14 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 15 | Nothing came of it in 1545 , though in June French troops arrived to give the Scots temporary assistance against the English . |
| 16 | Tony Young [ Teesside 's Waste Disposal Manager ] delves into the UK 's waste and looks at how we dispose of it in Environmental Issues ' latest feature on major environmental matters . |
| 17 | His aim is to show what are the taken-for-grated rules of conversation and how we describe the world to one another so that we all make sense of it in similar ways . |
| 18 | Further , his Catholicism also deeply influenced , if subconsciously , Leonard 's own awareness of it in Catholic Montreal . |
| 19 | It is how , as a fire-brand of the Left , he was able to seize control of it in 1983 and then haul the lumbering edifice to the Right . |
| 20 | We argued for it and voted in favour of it in 1987 and in 1988 . |
| 21 | Their partners are making dollars faster than either of them can count , some of it in black market trading . |
| 22 | Equally , and as can be seen from Table 4.5 , those who took first jobs that were temporary spent more of the 20 month observation period being unemployed and less of it in full-time employment than did those who took first jobs that were permanent . |
| 23 | That software will be DB2 with SQL capability ( or , if you prefer to think of it in other terms , SQL with an accessible DB2 engine ) . |
| 24 | Karlinsky painted a grim picture — endless hardship , unceasing toil and sweat , back-breaking labour in hostile climatic conditions , some of it in malaria-ridden areas . |
| 25 | The only glimmer of it in early NEP was , ironically , the attitude of one Georgian , Stalin , towards his own national birthplace . |
| 26 | Perhaps this is due to the erroneous descriptions of it in early texts as ‘ a large , dull , uninteresting fish , difficult to keep ’ , coupled with confusion caused by some retail outlets offering the natural or ‘ wild ’ form of Orange Chromide ( Etroplus maculatus ) as ‘ Green Chromide ’ . |
| 27 | Liggers Week raised around £10,000 , most of it in small change , and provides further proof , if any were needed , of Britain 's thriving , thoughtful club culture . |
| 28 | At first Daedalus sought a lubricating oil freezing at about 0°C , with some idea of boiling tons of it in vast kettles set up near ski slopes . |
| 29 | A party supporting the government , yet differing from most of the other members of it in one specific particular : its opposition to the tariff . |
| 30 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |