Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 2 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 3 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 4 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 9 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 10 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 11 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 12 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 13 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 14 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 15 | This particular version contains within it a cooling device of unsurpassed elegance . |
| 16 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 17 | The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done . |
| 18 | But that law has upon it a rich gloss of practice , realism , and political sophistication which , I suggest , would preclude a repeat of events such as those which occurred in 1963 . |
| 19 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 20 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 21 | Yet this ‘ philanthropy ’ has in it a considerable element of Minchampstead self interest . |
| 22 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 23 | We had to work on it a great deal . |
| 24 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 25 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 26 | Around the gate and the two fire-engines parked by it a little knot of spectators was gathering , increasing by the minute , kept at a distance by two superbly imperturbable members of the Lancashire County force . |
| 27 | In daft Magic Roundabout T-shirt and with enough of that stubborn hair to necessitate a hand pushed through it every two seconds , Paul Merton is far from the detached misery he portrays on the box . |
| 28 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 29 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 30 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |