Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 2 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |
| 5 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 6 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 7 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 13 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 16 | None of it made any sense . |
| 17 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 18 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 19 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 20 | Since the perestroika process began , the Soviet economy has followed a steady course downwards , and there seems no prospect at the moment of it reversing that process . |
| 21 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 22 | Although there was a flurry of Jacobite plotting and conspiracy in the period 1689 – 97 , none of it stood much chance of success . |
| 23 | This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first ! |
| 24 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 25 | I 'm a free man , and all that you hold dear , you rich men — and beggars too — none of it has any power over me . ’ |
| 26 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 27 | This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure . |
| 28 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |