Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If by it we mean a support system to strengthen and assist those who wish to engage in political lobbying , well and good , but if we are to take on a proper campaigning role as Oxfam has done , then this would require additional staff with the necessary experience and specialisation . |
| 2 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 3 | Because of it they simply could not plunder on ahead without thinking . |
| 4 | Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children . |
| 5 | Now despite being Irish er and in fact maybe because of it it 'll be a qui a very intelligent dog I should think . |
| 6 | ‘ I am very sad , ’ he wrote to me , ‘ about the disgraceful way you have been treated by the Seniors , and because of it I have informed the captain I am resigning . ’ |
| 7 | Karamani Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 882–6/1477–81 ) , pupil of another scholar vanquished by Hocazade and therefore ill-disposed toward him , told Mehmed II that Hocazade had complained of the climate in Istanbul , saying that because of it he had forgotten the learned works he had memorized , and that he had praised the climate in Iznik . |
| 8 | So I 've lost me bloody job because of it he said . |
| 9 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
| 10 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
| 11 | It is often claimed that children crave discipline because without it they are overloaded with judgements , decisions and opportunities . |
| 12 | President Gorbachev continues to behave as if the middle ground were still there , because without it he is nothing . |
| 13 | He attempted to find an alternative grounding for the project in a theory of mind because without it he argued that the ‘ postulational scepticism ’ of Grunwald and others was an effective criticism . |
| 14 | Off the pitch he gave much time to helping young players , while on it his play was never selfish , always for the team rather than his average ; and there were times when he batted in great pain rather than let the side down . |
| 15 | There is usually little difficulty in establishing a good business reason , since without it it is highly unlikely that a company would wish to relocate . |
| 16 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 17 | Mourning leads to happiness when through it we sense our place within the human family , and our need for God 's love . |
| 18 | The story is as much inspirational as sad , for with it we are made aware of the part we can play in our own Christmas story . |
| 19 | To me resignation is a priceless liberation , for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind 's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples . |
| 20 | Tim Garland , Freixenet 's UK Managing Director , said ‘ This new arrangement is most timely , for in it we recognise Nick 's considerable achievements of last year . |
| 21 | Cynthia Chase s tightly argued and richly suggestive ‘ Primary Narcissism and the Giving of Figure ’ repays close attention , for in it she makes a case for the significance of Kristeva 's work to an understanding of post-structuralist notions of the ‘ uncertain agency ’ of language , not as it is often misunderstood , as cavalier irresponsibility , but as the indication of the ‘ imperative of linking an ethical or political project with a critical epistemology ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 22 | But this is one candle you can not possibly afford to extinguish in your life , for without it you may lose much of the valuable to-and-fro of friendship , which can protect you from isolation , and act as a safety-valve when you are under strain . |
| 23 | I 'm willing to pay the price for a love that brings out my hidden strengths , for without it I feel I will live a diminished existence , however problem-free . |
| 24 | Coleridge had after all an interest in the maintenance of this humanity , for without it he seemed unable to regain those peaceful days represented in Frost at Midnight . |
| 25 | Of those it is worth singling out D. 32.95 and D. 33.2.34.1 , in which the jurist indicates ( in the first case implicitly , in the second explicitly ) that the use of the clause has turned out to have crucial consequences for the effectiveness of the testator 's will : for without it his will or some of its dispositions would have been of no force . |