Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 2 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 3 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 4 | Les Routiers are offering it to BBC Good Food readers at a special price of £6.99 ( including p&p ) . |
| 5 | Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year . |
| 6 | Property shares will get a shot-in-the-arm should one of their over-geared number announce that its bankers are backing it into the New Year , rather than pulling the plug . |
| 7 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 8 | And it got to the point where our pumps were issuing the fuel in gallons , but the fuel companies were bringing it in in litres . |
| 9 | Oh , I 've no doubt that somewhere down the line these things are are built it , but what I 'm saying is that the majority of dealers these days are including it within the package and saying look this vehicle comes with it completely because there is such erm a demand for this erm type of insurance . |
| 10 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 11 | Amid the disillusionment felt by some , that the minority of farmers are spoiling it for the rest in not keeping the environment clean , one manufacturer at least , hopes not dampened by the weather , felt there was room for optimism . |
| 12 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 13 | The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays . |
| 14 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 15 | Helen Carson discovers why the sisters are doin' it for themselves Women building on success |
| 16 | Should cats be doing it at all , should any animal be made to do those sort of tricks ? |
| 17 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 18 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 19 | Most players were bogeying it on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 20 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 21 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 22 | Detectives are linking it with a series of recent armed robberies , and warn the men could inflict serious injury . |
| 23 | Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport . |
| 24 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 25 | And in this sort of instance , I mean Tidworth , with the , with bringing in of North Tidworth it 's important that we do have extra accommodation , the police are doing it within their , within their remit . |
| 26 | It had to be abolished , for the peasants were resisting it with increasing militancy and a mass uprising was entirely conceivable . |
| 27 | She turned her back on him , praying that he would not touch her , her throat so tight now with tears that it seemed to be closing , her chest feeling as if frantic hands were hammering it from the inside , bursting it — in several raw , sore places — wide open . |
| 28 | Two others were offered it by their usual dealer . |
| 29 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 30 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |