Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 2 | Understand what it is we are trying to achieve by cutting off a lot of top growth , and the where , when and how of it lose much of the mystery . |
| 3 | I 'd always understood that land should only go into the greenbelt if it was necessary to be kept permanently open , by reason of it performing one of the five purposes . |
| 4 | Haemoglobin is doing an important job in the blood , and its details really matter ; but several alternative variants of it seem capable of doing the job equally well . |
| 5 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 6 | And some masticate earth with saliva to produce a cement that sets as hard as rock and with it build some of the most magnificent and complex mansions to be found anywhere on earth except for those made by mankind . |
| 7 | Each student will have their own coursework folder , and in it keep all of their work including the question paper set by the tutor , their answers and a copy of the tutor 's assessment , for each of the five subject areas . |
| 8 | The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year . |
| 9 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 10 | It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding . |
| 11 | The Scheme and the debates about it highlight some of the long-standing tensions in English educational policy . |
| 12 | And all around it rise some of the most shapely and challenging mountains in Europe : Ushba , Schkelda , Dykhtau , Koshtan Tau , the great block of Dongus Orun and countless others crying out for attention . |