Example sentences of "[prep] it the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 2 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 3 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 4 | The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered . |
| 5 | The second stage is a kind of broadside display ; it is called the ‘ parallel walk ’ , and in it the two males walk back and forth along side each other . |
| 6 | This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life . |
| 7 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 8 | ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’ |
| 9 | In it the mutual affections of bishop and diocese can not be missed . |
| 10 | The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect . |
| 11 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 12 | And in it the wonderful words : ‘ will not now take place … ’ |
| 13 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 14 | But we do not believe that the pursuit of national efficiency can be ranked much lower — not least because without it the human rights themselves will not be secure . |
| 15 | Conservative Republicans like Maura and Alcalá Zamora , and even some individuals on the left , recognized the desirability of a modus vivendi between the Church and the Republic , and of the latter 's attracting to it the Catholic sectors of the urban middle class and peasantry . |
| 16 | Chiang happens to have under her pillow a large red flag , and the five women embroider on it the five stars of the republic , meanwhile singing a song of praise . |
| 17 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 18 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 19 | She was somewhere in the middle of the seething ball of workers , while all around it the massed ranks of soldiers faced threateningly outwards with jaws agape , every one prepared to kill and to die in defence of the queen . |