Example sentences of "[adj] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to British naval power , the slave trade militated against rather than enhanced it through the high mortality of sailors engaged in it . |
| 2 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 3 | Realists present it as the natural response to a bipolar international system . |
| 4 | undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
| 5 | The many spoiling it for the few yet again . |