Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while . |
| 2 | Okay so what I 'd like you to do now a little bit of revision which , which way shall we do it first of all no just talk about it both of you what you found easy and what you found hard . |
| 3 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 4 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 5 | I can hear the murmur of it all in my head , and smell the sweet air . |
| 6 | With the light in it blue like the shadows pooling in the sea on either side of the moonlight 's path , when the fishermen go out ? |
| 7 | The unravelling of their chemistry has been one of the great achievements of 20th century science , a large part of it due to sir Norman Haworth , whose studies in this field spanned more than 30 years . |
| 8 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 9 | In his diary , he records Denis Healy 's description of it prior to his arrival . |
| 10 | New Scientist kept a lofty attitude about it all by celebrating three anniversaries in the history of space flight , or , alternatively , dropped its gaze discreetly on to the Mary Rose , about to surface from the Solent . |
| 11 | He had once been a prisoner in Parfois himself , he knew the castle and the country round it , and owed his escape from it alive to Master Harry and none other . |
| 12 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 13 | You travelled in a series of zigs and zags , keeping a record of it all in a notebook — the bearing on which you were travelling , the time of the start and end of each leg … . |
| 14 | She gazed in awe at it all before turning to him . |
| 15 | , left , and are certainly on top of it all in the steeping area . |
| 16 | She showed us the map on the last day before it due in eight o'clock |
| 17 | He was almost laughing , his eye narrowing with humour , the look in it one of knowingness , a shared joke between people from an advanced culture . |
| 18 | Evolution is presented as a progression from simple to complex forms with us at the pinnacle of it all as the most complex . |
| 19 | When the basic style is agreed , the computer draws a two-dimensional pattern of it complete with stress points marked . |
| 20 | The disciplines for Educational Studies and that area of it concerned with teacher education ( Tibble , 1966 ) . |
| 21 | The simple-mindedness of their consideration makes the object of it complex in comparison — so complex that it becomes difficult to understand how mere mortal man has ever managed to enjoy anything . |
| 22 | Carbon rubber , or derivations of it such as Goodyear Indy 5000 or AHAR , is durable but firm ; blown rubber is lighter but less resistant . |
| 23 | The two popular actors left it to director Richard Donner to make sense of it all at the end of the day . |
| 24 | There will be many things for her to think about and remember , at a time when she may be feeling quite disturbed emotionally , and you can do much to ease the strain of it all for her . |
| 25 | The shrewd little girl from Australia had no intention of following others who had been eaten by the star system and dumped at the end of it all with nothing . |
| 26 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 27 | There was no fierce detestation of it such as loyalist unionists had for Faulknerite unionists or Sinn Féin republicans for SDLP republicans . |
| 28 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ is also a very humorous book with many little funny episodes throughout it such as the time when Joe offers comfort to Pip at the dinner table by giving him gravy |
| 29 | However , when looking at speech at the level of the tone-unit we are not usually interested in this ; a much more important difference here is that between tonic stress ( marked by underlining the tonic syllable and placing before it one of the five tone-marks ) and non-tonic stressed syllables ( marked or in the head or in the tail ) . |
| 30 | I have the memory of it perfect in here , ’ and he stood with his hand spread on the top of his head , while the full implications sank into Gabriel 's . |