Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding . |
| 2 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |
| 3 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 4 | Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous . |
| 5 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 6 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 7 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 8 | This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure . |
| 9 | Though it travels through some wonderful hill country the Way is n't a tough route — much of it follows level footpaths with plenty of riverside walking . |
| 10 | The solar wind carried its own magnetic field , and as this sweeps past it causes electrical currents to flow in the Moon . |
| 11 | Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills . |
| 12 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
| 13 | At a national level the Triple Alliance collapsed in April ; with it went socialist hope that a united union movement could challenge the government . |
| 14 | With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge . |
| 15 | A second visionary experience was required to create the world of the archetypal stage , the skene , and with it make true drama possible . |
| 16 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
| 17 | Second , three of the variables incorporated into it have negative signs , indicating that as the number of pixels of these types increases , so population decreases . |
| 18 | He ran a shrewd brown eye over the formidable ramifications of Isambard 's favourite castle , and speculated on which of the stony holes under it held young Harry . |
| 19 | The Companies Act 1989 and regulations made under it allow listed companies to issue summary financial statements to those shareholders who do not wish to receive the full annual report and accounts . |
| 20 | From it fell refracted light , on balding heads and shaven heads , on Mohican plumes and gelled spikes , on neatly barbered and dressed locks , on neglected middle-aged wispy bobs , on plaits and loops and layered body waves . |
| 21 | In the home however , they soon adapt to their owner 's timetable , often to the extent that deviations from it induce erratic behaviour which can develop into a full-blown eating disorder . |
| 22 | The unsatisfactory nature of project evaluation work and the inconclusive lessons which can be drawn from it provide little justification for the donor ‘ omniscience ’ which continues to characterize their negotiations with recipients . |
| 23 | However , the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore has shown that although the hyacinth is relatively rich in crude protein , protein extracted from it contains large quantities of unfavourable minerals . |
| 24 | The board considered that although the investigation ordered by the Chief Executive on 18 October 1990 is not yet complete the imposition of the restrictions referred to above is necessary in the interests of investors given the evidence before it highlighting serious deficiencies in Norwich Union 's internal systems for monitoring the performance of the Winchester Group and in particular ensuring that the Winchester Group complied with the Code of Conduct . |
| 25 | In a two-year period of review from late 1981 the Course as a whole and all fields within it reviewed overall principles , the design of the Course and the specific contributions of subject areas . |
| 26 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |
| 27 | On Tarvaras there were several subject races who spoke a variation of it — perhaps because they were descended from Second Empire colonists — and suddenly Alexei found that there was insufficient subtlety in it to convey precise nuance . |
| 28 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 29 | Ask yourself about the current African political scene and read round it to find interesting parallels , since Mageeba represents a mixture of the kind of African leadership to be found . |
| 30 | In the churches , traditional orthodoxy of a more or less pre-Enlightenment character fought to retain its footing , but alongside it grew other movements ranging from what today would be called Conservative Evangelicalism to those which were consciously progressive , liberal and modern . |