Example sentences of "[adj] it [prep] [art] [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 | It is also launching a new series called Wisley Companions , the intention of which is to collect information from a variety of Wisley Handbooks and compact it into a smaller number of volumes . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've soft-sold it on a limited basis , ’ said at Thorntons , ‘ focusing on particular clients and their circumstances . ’ |
| 6 | A prolonged breather , during which he took a bar of chocolate out of his pocket and unwrapped it in a leisurely way . |
| 7 | undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration , the many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
| 8 | The many spoiling it for the few yet again . |
| 9 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 10 | This would enable him to restore the foot to the proper position of function , and he would keep it like that by strapping it into a right-angle splint , with a kind of plate under the foot attached to splints up the calf . |