Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] it " in BNC.

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1 Although it takes a few minutes for the body to send out any strong signals of satiety it is probable that chewing and swallowing movements do begin to send messages to the brain .
2 They receive no extra remuneration whatsoever for their duties although at some times of course it can be quite dangerous .
3 In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration :
4 In some cases of damage it might be wise to ascertain whether or not there was any similar damage prior to the accident .
5 ‘ We 've done some sums and we reckon that if you use the phone for more than one and half minutes per day it will be more expensive , ’ says a west London cellphone dealer .
6 After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear .
7 This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen .
8 But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive .
9 It is possible to sequence learning in interdisciplinary contexts , but for some kinds of content-sequence it is undoubtedly much easier to keep a steady eye on the subject .
10 I said well I 'm not very good on computers and I 've got loads of coursework so I thought if I go down there and type out different pieces of work it would get me familiarized with them
11 It appears , then , that although the object has different qualities from language it may be equally impressive in the areas of expression and communication in which language is most esteemed .
12 For patients with low levels of dependency , providing domiciliary care is cheaper than providing institutional care , but at high levels of dependency it becomes more expensive .
13 The second goal is to make the school resemble more closely the sod of place within which the teacher would like to teach … this second goal can become of considerable importance , and in some situations of conflict it can become more important than the first .
14 Nothing was as before because he was there and if I did not persevere with my patronising offers of involvement it was because my confusion was worsening , the patch on my spirit growing .
15 While it is very good at removing metals , dyes and some organics in solution it can not remove nitrite , nitrate , phosphate or ammonia .
16 From some points of view it does not really matter whether these fragments originated as invading parasites or breakaway rebels .
17 From some points of view it is clearly a human creation .
18 When we examine a specific case from these different points of view it becomes obvious that they may all contribute to our understanding .
19 Erm I mean I should think you want to take some shorts in case it 's warm do you .
20 Given the difficulty of identifying the different types of dementia it is usual for epidemiological studies of this disease to concentrate upon organic brain failure as a single condition .
21 SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade .
22 So , whilst it is possible to identify some broad directions of change it remains difficult to decide the precise implications .
23 In our speaking and listening programmes of study it is therefore recommended specifically as a learning medium .
24 In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life .
25 Microcomputers are often described as personal computers In fact it can be quite helpful to think of them in this way when considering the differences between them and mainframe or minicomputers Usually microcomputers are used by only one person at a time ; for example , a personnel manager might have one on his desk top which he uses to examine trends in recruitment .
26 In such corners of Plenty it is impossible not to fancy yourself deep underground , in the realm of some benighted race of blind burrowers , all listlessly trying to remember the sun .
27 With such experiences of life it would be no wonder if he had few scruples about how he got what he wanted .
28 If caught during the early weeks of pregnancy it can cause deafness , blindness and heart problems in the baby .
29 ‘ On the early things on Sun it 's him , and then later on , on RCA , occasionally he would play or , like you mentioned before , he would turn the guitar over and just keep time on the back of it . ’
30 Scar tissue all right ; a birthmark she 'd had removed in early teens in case it turned malignant .
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