Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 2 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 3 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 4 | There were men half-hidden by piled-up mountains of coloured balloons at some of the street corners , a relic , Ward said , of the magnificent feathered headdresses of the Aztecs , and with the stillness of evening the dust haze had gone , so that the huge square of the Zócalo had a brooding sense of peace , the cathedral 's twin towers still touched with the sunset 's warmth and the great mass of it dominating the presidential palace . |
| 5 | They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques . |
| 6 | AND still there are two nations in England , if only because part of it thinks the other part is somewhere else . |
| 7 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 8 | The chance of it getting the entire phrase of 28 characters right is ( 1/27 ) to the power 28 , i.e. ( 1/27 ) multiplied by itself 28 times . |
| 9 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 10 | In that decade European men won almost a quarter of the 40 major championships played and for most of it dominated the top ten in the world rankings . |
| 11 | Victor 's face as the match flares in front of it has the rapt attention of a man lighting a fuse . |
| 12 | None of it removed the nagging misery from her mind , the horror at the thought of Eleanor Thorne , sweet-natured as she was , being consigned to a mental hospital for geriatrics , to a public ward in a public bed , her possessions named with white tapes , her false teeth removed , her talk and actions , perhaps even her death , made common property . |
| 13 | The implications of it affect the whole world , it 's everything , everything you do , and demonstrates how things work and why they work . |
| 14 | Beneath it lies the main epicuticular layer , the so-called protein epicuticle , also containing bound lipid . |
| 15 | Beneath it lies the limbic system , seat of the strong emotions and intuitive responses which we share with birds and lower mammals . |
| 16 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 17 | He hung his chosen shirt on the front of the wardrobe , and slid back the mirror-door behind it to put the other away . |
| 18 | He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness . |
| 19 | Behind it stood the international gold standard . |
| 20 | But this business of the missing ship and what lies behind it puts the whole negotiation in jeopardy . |
| 21 | With the growth in industry there was also a significant development of trade , particularly in the early Tudor period , and with it came the increasing dominance of London in the English economy . |
| 22 | White-hot heat coursed through him , and with it came the rare , precious fusing of mind and body , so that her thoughts and her emotions flowed out to him , and his to her … we were truly one on that morning , thought Fergus . |
| 23 | Hahnemann disagreed with this opinion and as a result of self-experimentation with it rediscovered the forgotten principle of treatment by similars . |
| 24 | He contests that petty commodity production is a separate mode of production from the capitalist one , but that it articulates with it to facilitate the expanded reproduction of the capitalist mode ( Quijano 1974 ) . |
| 25 | Given the establishment of this joint working party , it would appear both reasonable and sensible for the APB 's Going Concern Task Force to work with it to establish the necessary guidance on what disclosures should be made , and then to incorporate it . |
| 26 | Into it comes the shamanic figure of ‘ An Unidentified Guest ’ who is in control of potent and primitive forces , which the other characters do not seem to understand . |
| 27 | The Church of S. Quirin at Neuss also has a cliff-face façade , arcaded and gabled , while above it rises the large , square tower ; a typical , interesting example ( 333 ) . |
| 28 | Transverse tubular invaginations from it form the so-called T-system , while close to these are the longitudinally arranged cisternae of a separate membrane system , the sarcoplasmic reticulum . |
| 29 | It was a momentary thought , quickly dispelled when Sara took Hartley in her arms ; but from it crystallized the firm decision that both Hartley and any other children they might have should be spared a city childhood , and be ‘ bred up from earliest infancy in the simplicity of peasants , their food , dress , and habits completely rustic ’ . |
| 30 | The nature of the economic system and the conflicts within it influence the changing rules of the game . |