Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In the exercise of it many factors have to be considered besides the strength of the case .
2 It was significant because during the course of it two things became very plain to Anna .
3 It is as if the creation of a regulatory bureaucracy carries with it implicit powers to achieve agency goals .
4 It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains .
5 The BBC Scotland task force suggested that the best way to pursue these guarantees might be to reverse the previous arrangement and keep the licence money in Scotland , paying out from it those fees imposed for taking network programmes and utilising corporate resources .
6 On the one hand are those adult educators who see in it exciting possibilities to extend the concept of adult learning , making it more relevant to the issues and problems facing ‘ disadvantaged ’ groups , helping them to participate more effectively in society , gaining more recognition and resources , removing gross inequalities and injustices .
7 Without it few executives reach great organizational heights .
8 Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River .
9 He fires at it three times to try and open it , but without success .
10 Beneath and down-wind of the ash cloud there is a steady rain of fine ash particles , sometimes falling so thickly that a dark curtain appears to be hanging beneath the cloud , while in and around it electrical storms rage , with lightning flickering frequently , so that the whole effect is much more dramatic than even the most ominous of thunderclouds .
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