Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these that the ‘ grammatical rules of school textbooks ’ were derived , at least until the work of descriptive linguistics in this century , and perhaps still despite it in some cases . |
| 2 | Apart from disturbing the wrong occupants , the gallery was open to the hall below it in several places and she might be seen . |
| 3 | To win a pound of gold the Rand miners had on the average to raise , crush and purify some sixty-seven tons of ore , much of it under extreme temperatures and from great depths . |
| 4 | There is lot of it about these days and not just in the police service . |
| 5 | Because his wife had made dishes of it as first-night presents for the cast , apart from Titania , who was on a diet and would have to be dealt with in some other way . |
| 6 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 7 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 8 | The Leader of the Opposition claims that he has been a consistent supporter of the Common Market for years , but everyone knows that he was a consistent and bitter opponent of it for many years . |
| 9 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 10 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 11 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 12 | I would n't be without this for the world and use it , or parts of it for different jobs all the time . |
| 13 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 14 | The break-up specialist may have an interest in retaining certain parts of the company or he may wish to dispose of all of it to other companies . |
| 15 | Mrs K. Battye 's local history class have mapped the information recorded in the 1881 census returns and have related much of it to existing buildings . |
| 16 | Mr Warburton , whose responsibility it was to run an efficient , economic , and safe railway , had considered the CIOR 's embargo to be prohibitive and had issued his own perceived clarification of it to regional managers before the meeting at which the new Newton lay-out was approved . |
| 17 | Rather it is couched in absolutist terms that reify literacy as though its very essence were being described and that unjustifiably relate specific cultural manifestations of it to such universals as logic , abstraction etc . |
| 18 | He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things . |
| 19 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 20 | I myself know only too well what it 's like to have a car stolen , so as a car is one of our most valuable possessions , it pays to take care of it at all times . |
| 21 | ‘ Keep the media out of it at all costs for the moment . |
| 22 | It meant that Mrs Constantine had been asked to attend a meeting and wanted to get out of it at all costs . |
| 23 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 24 | Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’ |
| 25 | They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages . |
| 26 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 27 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 28 | More can be learned about the nature of sale from a comparison of it with other contracts . |
| 29 | I mean a real Safeway , you know , the ones you see in the U S where everything you know , even the trolleys , are seven times bigger , erm n n not like they are , you know , the aliens land in the car park of the Maple Valley Safeways in Washington State , and , and observe people coming out of it with enormous piles of shopping . |
| 30 | To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them . |