Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 2 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 3 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 4 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 5 | Like the Three Women , Bread and Fruit Dish is a work of extraordinary gravitas ; and it has about it a physicality and a presence seldom associated with ordinary still life . |
| 6 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 7 | Certainly get looks like it the sun 's going in . |
| 8 | If you look at a department like the Director and Engineers department , every letter in fact has underneath it the City Engineer , even if its signed by somebody else . |
| 9 | It has behind it a powerful cluster of motivating forces , accompanied by a theory of motivation which , however inadequate , works sufficiently to keep the system going . |
| 10 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 11 | It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries . |
| 12 | When life gets more interesting one is more responsive , more aware of one 's surroundings and what one is doing ; his answer , inarticulate as it may be , has behind it the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Look how much better the Lilliputians do it ’ , is a tempting cry , but the more one looks into it the more one finds that the Lilliputians are n't a fair comparison with us : they have n't got our antiquated industries … our legal system ; and they are less than six inches tall . |
| 14 | This particular version contains within it a cooling device of unsurpassed elegance . |
| 15 | Miliband 's book is important because it contains within it a bridge between instrumentalist and structuralist accounts of the state and power in capitalist society . |
| 16 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 17 | ‘ An essential characteristic of cyclical behaviour is not only that expansion and contraction follow each other , but that each phase of the cycle contains within it the seeds to generate the succeeding phase ’ ( R. Levacic , Macroeconomics ) . |
| 18 | The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done . |
| 19 | And they have argued that , whilst feminism should indeed always have a critical relationship to psychoanalytic theory , the latter has within it the potential for allowing a better understanding of the complexities of human desires and of the psychological construction of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ People have a tendency to present their messages as a new problem … rather than as something which has within it the elements of a solution . ’ |
| 21 | We have opened discussions with Mr. MacSharry on that , we are pushing the Community for urgency on the zoonoses regulations , and the Commission has before it a proposal to overhaul the meat inspection and meat hygiene directive . |
| 22 | An association of the deaf , powerful in its members and unity , has before it the greatness of things to be done . |
| 23 | But that law has upon it a rich gloss of practice , realism , and political sophistication which , I suggest , would preclude a repeat of events such as those which occurred in 1963 . |
| 24 | To quote the dictionary again , the word ‘ adventure ’ contains in it an element of the unexpected , of chance and Fate , which means that the protagonist must be able to call on more than normal attributes to meet the challenge set for him . |
| 25 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 26 | Herling is thought to resemble Dostoevsky , whose Prototypical prison book , The House of the Dead , has in it a mansion tenanted by obnoxious , caricatured Jews . |
| 27 | Yet this ‘ philanthropy ’ has in it a considerable element of Minchampstead self interest . |
| 28 | Where the divorce petition has in it a claim for maintenance payments for the wife or child , if approached by an interested solicitor , the DSS will provide details of the whereabouts of the husband if they can . |
| 29 | Where the divorce petition has in it a claim for maintenance payments for the wife or child , if approached by an interested solicitor , the DSS will provide details of the whereabouts of the husband if they can . |
| 30 | We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible , absolutely impossible , to explain in any classical way , and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics . |