Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dust-laden wind meets an obstacle , the dust particles rarely strike the obstacle as they are diverted round it in the general air flow and so exert little or no erosive effect . |
| 2 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 3 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |
| 4 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 5 | Whether this actually demonstrates anything is debatable — we all have antibodies to Candida because we are exposed to it from birth , and a positive response to an intradermal test is seen in some healthy individuals . |
| 6 | Trudgill writes : speakers are not capable of acquiring the correct underlying phonological distinction unless they are exposed to it from the very beginning , before they themselves have even begun to speak . |
| 7 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 8 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 9 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 10 | The court only intervenes when the tribunal is outside the ‘ scope ’ which has been assigned to it by the legislature ; the judiciary will not intervene if the tribunal has simply made an error within its assigned area since this would eradicate the distinction between review of legality and appeal . |
| 11 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 12 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 13 | The four nations have also announced a ban on herring-fishing , claiming that the species is dangerously over-harvested , and are pressing for it to be registered under Appendix I of CITES ( which bans all exploitation ) . |
| 14 | She even hinted that he had been bullied into it by his wife . |
| 15 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 16 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 17 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 18 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 19 | Matt 's been looking through it for us , I 've not had a chance to look at it yet . |
| 20 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 22 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 23 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 24 | The Agnus is naturally the culminating variation ; in ‘ Misericorde ’ the four parts are expanded for it to six . |
| 25 | Always you are separated from it by an expanse of one thing or another : docks or roads . |
| 26 | Skelton Village and the area of D thirty nine and D forty form no part of the built area of York , but are separated from it by open country . |
| 27 | This work laid the foundation for the later unravelling of the interior structure of the earth , through observation of the behaviour of seismic waves as they are transmitted through it from distant earthquakes . |
| 28 | Each term is usually given together with terms which are related to it in one of a number of ways . |
| 29 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 30 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |