Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For tens of pennies it 'll take you to any one of 20 odd bays or villages in the area . |
| 2 | For hundreds of years it has all been exactly the same . |
| 3 | Flapping of intervocalic in hit it . |
| 4 | Since the density of wood averages about one-fourteenth of that of steel it may be that about thirty times the volume of wood is used , taking the world as a whole . |
| 5 | The tenant may be wary of this in case it is used by the landlord to remove the tenant ( in a buoyant market ) but any dilatoriness on the part of the landlord in reinstating where none of the supervening events applies could be seized upon by the tenant . |
| 6 | Well Paul 's got one of these at home it does |
| 7 | First of all of course it was all off when he did that . |
| 8 | The hundreds of millions of pounds it is poised to spend on science and technology at higher levels , including Britain 's IT industry , may be largely wasted if it does not . |
| 9 | Because the expenditure of many departments runs into hundreds of millions of pounds it is therefore a major audit task to check that the accounting and financial control systems underlying reported expenditure are both efficient and accurate . |
| 10 | As some plates have horizontal dimensions of thousands of kilometres it has been argued that convection cells of equivalent horizontal and vertical dimensions would be required to move them . |
| 11 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 12 | Since ‘ real world ’ applications require the lexicon to contain entries for tens of thousands of words it is also necessary to consider how large the available lexicon is , the format of the entries and how much effort would be required to create new entries . |
| 13 | It 's really annoying , he 's not like that at home it 's just that Pip I think Pip intimidates him |
| 14 | Like much of Penwith it has a powerful ethos which refuses to be submerged by the modern world ; the countryside is littered with artefacts spanning the centuries , from megalithic chamber tombs to nineteenth-century mine workings , and only the moron can escape a sense of continuity with an obligation to the past . |
| 15 | yeah I 've got a lot of relations , I 've got twenty , twenty seven er grandchildren , that includes the great grandchildren , twenty seven which I have er to get something for all at Christmas it 's a pantomime I 've got stuff here and everywhere sorting out for them , cos my little grandson tonight is coming round to wrap them up for me so I got to mind I have n't , leave his present in the way otherwise he 'll know what he 's got yeah he 's got , I got a tape for him , he wanted a tape called Madness so I 've got him a tape for it so I 've had to put that out the way so he does n't wrap that up , no he comes and does them up for me tonight , and a friend Ian will help him as well , so you know it 's , it 's great really |
| 16 | With this in mind it may be better quality papers , such as Cockingford 150 gsm paper . |
| 17 | With this in mind it is also important to define better the roles for endothelin-2 and endothelin-3 . |
| 18 | With this in mind it is for consideration whether such forms should not be redesigned to separate the disclaimer of liability on the part of the hospital from what really matters , namely the declaration by the patient of his decision with a full appreciation of the possible consequences , the latter being expressed in the simplest possible terms and emphasised by a different and larger type face , by underlining , the employment of coloured print or otherwise . |
| 19 | With this in mind it is hard to overlook Margery 's first , charitable gift to the needy old lady that she sees : ( " Take , here , flesh [ meat ] and bread as well … " ) |
| 20 | For those with ability it is possible to rise through the ranks to senior maître d'hôtel s . |
| 21 | We try in vain to turn it up . |
| 22 | Her voice was beginning to rise and she tried in vain to control it . |
| 23 | erm the one at the Royal Sussex is perhaps interesting , in that in fact it 's the computer is based on a microprocessor , so it really is using the latest erm in advanced microtechnology . |
| 24 | In a note issued in June , Panmure Gordon predicted profits of £39m at the September year-end and £43m in 1993 on sales it foresees nearing £500m . |
| 25 | It fails , however , because although support was weakest in much of Nottinghamshire it was very strong in Yorkshire . |
| 26 | In patients with adenoma the incidence was increased to 9.8% ( p=0.068 ) , and in those with carcinoma it was 18.6% ( p= 0.0008 ) . |
| 27 | But for a handful of obvious reasons , Lewis does not draw a picture of ‘ the whole man ’ in Surprised by Joy It is partly that a natural reticence made him draw a veil over the two greatest facts of his emotional history : his relationships with his father and Mrs Moore . |
| 28 | I know that for millions of women it must be an easy , painless decision . |
| 29 | This mysterious drug has not been identified by botanists , but from the time of Solon to that of Caesar it was to Cyrene what sherry is to Spain . |
| 30 | To the 24-handicapper the green looks like a canal bank , so narrow is it , so much water is there surrounding it , but to these plus men it was score-making territory . |