Example sentences of "[prep] it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant was held liable for trespass , for ‘ the right to the possession draws after it a constructive possession , which is sufficient to support the action . ’ |
| 2 | This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact . |
| 3 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 4 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
| 5 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
| 6 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 7 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
| 8 | Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use . |
| 9 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
| 10 | So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry . |
| 11 | There is a double set of front pockets on each side — first a zipped pocket and in front of it an open patch pocket , and both are excellent , deep pockets . |
| 12 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
| 13 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |
| 14 | But she was cooking and she was going you take , she goes , she goes , some people like it a little bit on the side , you know , with their food , some people on the side . |
| 15 | ‘ But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon . |
| 16 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 17 | They have a third canal in a horizontal plane and beneath it a large sac . |
| 18 | It has behind it a powerful cluster of motivating forces , accompanied by a theory of motivation which , however inadequate , works sufficiently to keep the system going . |
| 19 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 20 | A railway engine was puffing slowly through Barnes Bridge station dragging behind it a long string of heavily laden wagons . |
| 21 | The matter of which they are made is crushed right out of existence … but it leaves behind it a gravitational field , as if it were still there but compressed into a very small volume of space . |
| 22 | The linear trim position indicator runs immediately behind it a red pointer moving back and forward to markings numbered either side of a central zero . |
| 23 | In a way the actual liquidation brought with it a curious sense of relief . |
| 24 | What is more , the cultivation of the idea of emperorship brought with it a renewed interest in the rich sources of the Roman law . |
| 25 | Incorporation thus brings with it a useful device to facilitate borrowing , from both the company and the lender 's viewpoint . |
| 26 | This twofold emphasis upon religious consciousness and on the task of theology in the present brings with it a major shift in the understanding of the character of theological and doctrinal statements — a shift from the objective to the subjective pole , from the truth to be affirmed to the awareness and intention of the person or community affirming it . |
| 27 | The anthropologists ' work of reconstruction carries with it a major temptation , which is to try to show that every part of an exotic culture is coherent and consistent with all the other parts . |
| 28 | Increased life expectancy has brought with it a major burden ( the word is here used advisedly ) and responsibility in the care of those in an advanced state of mental and physical decline . |
| 29 | Thankfully , this mystic certainty brings with it a deepening understanding of the ways of our human mind . |
| 30 | There had been earlier moves towards international integration , but the 1950s saw a new impetus and with it a new school of thought emerging to claim that the sovereignty of the state was being eroded . |