Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] it " in BNC.
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1 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
2 | This constructivist notion of phantasy is understood by Klein as the primary basis for all symbolic processes , whereas for later object-relations theorists it becomes a kind of false consciousness , or misapprehension of the real world . |
3 | For example , in Malone v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner it was held that since there was no law against telephone tapping and it did not amount to any common law wrong , it was not unlawful for the police to engage in it . |
4 | I know it 's tempting when see something at £5 instead of £10 , but in six months time it 's useless — that 's why it 's cheap . ’ |
5 | In five hours time it would be midnight . |
6 | Just in case you 're tempted by knockdown prices on old style monitors , by the way , you should bear in mind that in four years time it will actually become illegal to use them at all at work . |
7 | But to most bureaux workers it is too reminiscent of the DHSS ticket system . |
8 | However , at British Airways Cargo it is the global implications of the Single Market which are receiving most attention , ’ says Peter White . |
9 | The line was first electrified in the 1950s , but at 1500 volts DC it is very different from today 's standard of 25000 volts AC . |