Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is is n't it ? it seems ironic that for me it seemed such a big thing , in case you still need it clear I was William 's nephew . |
| 2 | For me it meant more than that . |
| 3 | I have a certain nostalgic respect for that kind of 1970s ' ultra-Leftist-womanist impossibilism , but for me it has two major problems . |
| 4 | The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives . |
| 5 | There was an awkward pause during which it became clear that this hint was going to be ignored like all previous ones and then the Guider realised that the pause was going to continue . |
| 6 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 7 | Euripides ' importance for New Comic poets like Menander ( 342–293 ) and Philemon ( 368–267 ) lay , above all , in his introduction of mundane naturalism , through which it became possible , for the first time , to stage the mediocrity of ordinary life : " Euripides brought the spectator on stage . " |
| 8 | It is , also , an agent for Cory Brothers ( part of the Powell Duffeyrn Group ) and Singapore 's National , Neptune Orient Line for which it offers dedicated Far Eastern container services . |
| 9 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 10 | The EC on Oct. 22 called on Milosevic to use his influence to end ethnic cleansing in Bosnia , for which it held Bosnian Serbs chiefly responsible , and warned that military measures could be taken if the UN flight ban over Bosnia was breached . |
| 11 | And , of course , the state is linked directly to the sphere of production , for which it performs necessary functions , being also an arena within which the class-struggles are fought out . |
| 12 | To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) The fraud or dishonesty of the vendor In addition to fraud and dishonesty insurers will specifically exclude liability for the wilful failure by the vendor to disclose matters of which it had actual knowledge . |
| 14 | The well-known deconstruction carried out in ‘ Structure , Sign , and Play ’ shows how the constitution of anthropological knowledge , though often paraded as scientific and objective , is nevertheless governed by a problematic of which it remains unaware : the philosophical category of the centre — which Derrida then proceeds to articulate with the problem of Eurocentrism . |
| 15 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 16 | In the course of the day the UK government announces increases in base rate from 10 to 12 , and then to 15 per cent effective Sept. 17 , in unsuccessful efforts to defend the value of sterling , then withdraws sterling from the ERM , allowing its value to " float " ( as a result of which it falls some 10 per cent against the deutschmark to below DM2.52 by the end of September ) , and cuts base rate to 12 per cent . |
| 17 | BA has invested £20m of its own money in the venture , of which it owns 31 p.c. , but says that further finance will come from Air Russia 's own resources , such as state loans and leasing . |
| 18 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 19 | Adding together the numbers of self-employed , family workers and labour in firms of less than 30 employees in non-agricultural work for 1984 gives a total of about 25 million people , of which it appears that one-third ( 8.2 million ) work in units of less than five people ( FTW 1/2/86 ) . |
| 20 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 21 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
| 22 | Of what it felt like to live in such a world we are , and must for ever remain , entirely ignorant . |
| 23 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 24 | InfoNow Corp , Boulder , Colorado pioneer of what it calls electronic commerce , using digital technology such as CD-ROM , new media , security , encryption , digital transmission to deliver products , has completed a private placing of stock , raising gross proceeds of $1.65m . |
| 25 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 26 | They are less likely to dominate than are men , because they have such painful first-hand experience of what it feels like to be oppressed by those in authority . |
| 27 | Surely it makes sense to have this knowledge of what it feels like , almost as if you are on the stage of the London Palladium in front of a full house with the spotlights full on , as you have questions fired at you — rather than be totally unprepared and unrehearsed . |
| 28 | We now have a colossal documentation of what it feels like to be in the margin . |
| 29 | I sought a way of fudging it , of drawing a two-dimensional picture that conveyed something of what it feels like to move from point to point in the nine-dimensional genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 30 | The principle of electrolocation , as it has been called , is fairly well understood at the level of physics though not , of course , at the level of what it feels like to be an electric fish . |