Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 2 | The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team . |
| 3 | Most of it goes to your employees , some of it goes to the pension fund and a large slice goes to the government in tax and National Insurance . |
| 4 | But they , and many other organisations throughout society , also have the benefit of strongly supportive national policies and of state guaranteed funds on a scale that is not entirely incommensurate with the task of changing health determining habits : for a population the size of England 's , the total yearly Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 's budget is equivalent to around £140 million , and much of it goes to the voluntary sector . |
| 5 | So it varies from nothing to a lot of involvement , and much of it depends on the song . |
| 6 | The site is not in public ownership and any use of it depends on the agreement of the landowner , Mr Whewell . |
| 7 | A lot of these queries , or some of it stems from the fact that we 're also conscious of the fact that we ca n't keep passing things to Gary when he 's only got one person |
| 8 | This is limited because the light from the l.e.d. spreads out and only a fraction of it falls on the detector . |
| 9 | Some of it belongs to the years directly after 591 , when Gregory 's narrative comes to an end , and has the additional significance of casting some light on the later years of the reign of Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) , which are otherwise poorly represented in the sources . |
| 10 | Very little of it relates to the north and north-east , although Salvian does describe the sack of Trier . |
| 11 | erm On the question of the river samples and pool samples , yes , I think one of the city pools , one of the school pools we had a bit of a problem , so that took much of concentrated attention of it for a period of two or three weeks , so that 's probably a reflection , I do n't think much of it relates to the river sample . |
| 12 | A manor house remains of the eastern hamlet , but the church of St Peter has been demolished ; part of it remains in the grounds of Castle Combe manor house nearby . |
| 13 | Research and writing on this subject has concentrated almost exclusively on abuse by family members and most of it occurs in the domestic setting . |
| 14 | Space heating uses well over half , yet 75 per cent of it escapes into the outside world . |
| 15 | Inevitably , some of it escapes into the river . |
| 16 | Generally the rest of this phrase means that the offence is committed if the vehicle or part of it proceeds past the traffic lights on the left or nearside of the approaching vehicle . |
| 17 | But the saying of it cuts at the chains . |
| 18 | The greater part of it lies to the south of the confluence of the two rivers , which therefore split the town into three distinct parts . |
| 19 | Miss Cumbey 's work is a prophetic book and , as with all prophecy , the test of it lies in the future . |
| 20 | ‘ A lot of it comes through the Byrds , ’ reflects Bob ‘ and , though I was n't , like , a big fan of theirs , The Band . |
| 21 | This water is not only derived from the food that we eat and the fluid that we drink : much of it comes from the multitude of secretions which enter the gut lumen . |
| 22 | From one point of view , this passage portrays a comedy of disappointed expectations , and the subtlety of it comes from the fact that not only Pemberton 's expectations are in question , but those of Mrs Moreen and her son , as interpreted predominantly through the mind of Pemberton . |
| 23 | He also makes the point that what evidence there is may be culture-bound , since most of it comes from the USA and possesses a dominant technological perspective . |
| 24 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 25 | Some of it comes from the Government , and some from the local authorities , but it 's been cut back . |
| 26 | The raw copy which floods in from many sources is ‘ tasted ’ , selected , sub-edited and , in a remarkably short space of time , some of it appears on the printed page . |
| 27 | According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer . |
| 28 | The pattern , as it were , springs out from the background rather like it does with the Ishihara test charts for colour blindness . |
| 29 | It is important to study the changing distribution of income between social groups in the present context , because it may carry with it changes in the distribution of income between different types of place . |
| 30 | When the distribution of revenue is seen to be equitable , one would expect to see this intransigence diminish and with it doubts about the commitment of the UK to the EC . |