Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It seems odd , in retrospect , to see governments delegating so passively their most important educational function , but there were two main reasons for it at the time . |
2 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
3 | She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out . |
4 | When the switch is closed , the full available current flows through it to the load but again no power is dissipated in the switch since the voltage across it is zero . |
5 | The proposals for it by the UDC 's consultants are not for retail use , but they are ‘ consumption- ’ rather than production-orientated . |
6 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
7 | Much of this he was to achieve , though he received little thanks for it from the Parisians who , in large part , remained hostile to the regime . |
8 | They ate well , but she got little thanks for it from the mistress of the hut . |
9 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
10 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
11 | I must want my head tested sorting mail all day when I could be picking up wads of it on the lorries . ’ |
12 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
13 | Where a plaintiff 's claim arises out of a hire-purchase agreement , but is not for the delivery of goods , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods let under the agreement ; ( 6 ) the amount of the total price ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as being due and unpaid in respect of any instalment or instalments of the total price ; and ( 9 ) the nature and amount of any other claim and the circumstances in which it arises . |
14 | 8 Mark in the beds and borders on it to the dimensions required , in the required positions . |
15 | He homed to the nameless grave like a pigeon , and fell on his knees beside it with a great sob of thankfulness . |
16 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
17 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
18 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
19 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
20 | What I recommend you , you look at , I do n't think it 's on your reading list , no it 's not , it 's not on your reading list , but there are copies of it in the library . |
21 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
22 | ‘ Loads of it on the desk , ’ said Nooty . |
23 | We obtain a national picture of crime and people 's attitudes towards it from the three BCS , but for their critics these surveys have emphasised this national picture at the expense of the inner cities , which suffered more than their fair share of crime . |
24 | This relationship is expressed by the word ‘ friendship — , and includes many manifestations of it among the denizens of the earth both human and otherwise . |
25 | Splashes of it had hit the wall behind the basin and there were three oval blots of it on the floor . |
26 | A fervent follower of the tariff reform movement of Joseph Chamberlain [ q.v. ] , he began to write leaders and articles for the Morning Post under the editorship of his friend ( Sir ) Fabian Ware [ q.v. ] ; in 1906 he wrote articles for it during the course of a journey through Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and South Africa . |
27 | We wrote columns about it at the time and no two people appear to agree . |
28 | In the autumn , the sweeping tracts of it on the lower , treeless hillsides are the colour of rust , and it is then that it is scythed down , to provide bedding for the animals during the winter and , once suitably impregnated , fertilizer for the fields the following spring — in a neat ecological cycle . |
29 | Sex education as a subject is important in any discussion of the work of Mrs Whitehouse , because her experiences of it as a teacher and parent , indirectly , if not directly , led her into the public domain of the politics of sexual morality . |
30 | In this respect testing has a poor track record , and its lack of impact at national and school level forms the substance of the major criticisms of it as an evaluation procedure . |