Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arts Council was thus the result of a political climate that favoured state intervention and support , with one of it principal exponents at the helm . |
| 2 | It 's not right they were out of it six months before then . |
| 3 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 4 | He explained that the British envisaged that the union , having at its apex the European Council consisting of heads of government , would have beneath it distinct pillars of co-operation , with the Treaty of Rome and intergovernmental pillars representing respectively foreign and security policy co-operation and actions against drugs and terrorism overseen by interior and justice ministers . |
| 5 | Beyond the door was a slight recess blocked by a thick metal iron grille , and behind it four pairs of cruel red eyes gleamed in the darkness . |
| 6 | Behind it two men in singlets were serving drinks . |
| 7 | No army would advance into enemy territory and carelessly leave behind it important pockets of resistance . |
| 8 | It was not only the blow of failing to win power , and with it all hopes of a Scottish parliament , but also the fact that Labour lost votes and a seat in Scotland — facts which are conveniently forgotten when home-rulers and guardians of the party 's traditional totems blame failure in the south for Labour 's lack of achievement in the north . |
| 9 | Once in a while , however , mud from the ridge above slipped down in a turbid cloud , carrying with it all kinds of small creatures and dumped them there . |
| 10 | As part of this a rather different kind of social survey emerged and with it new kinds of data . |
| 11 | In practice this approach to user education still predominates , but in the UK in particular the scope of user education for schoolchildren has been expanded so significantly , bringing with it substantial implications for user education in other sectors , that the emphasis here must be on the description and discussion of this recent work . |
| 12 | Indeed , it shares with it some elements of decoration , e.g. a band of wavecrest pattern around the central roundel . |
| 13 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 14 | From this secure position , it extends a long tube , its siphon , along the tunnel and into the open water to suck in a current that brings with it minute particles of food . |
| 15 | Digitisation brings with it exciting possibilities for the archival scholar . |
| 16 | This contrast brings with it different theories of social action and how to study it . |
| 17 | Instead they dismantled the Poor Law from outside , by removing from it needy groups by means of legislation on issues such as old-age pensions and national health insurance . |
| 18 | He vowed to break his association with the board after being thrown back from it several feet across the room . |
| 19 | Oh my darling , I am too happy and excited to be able to write all the things I want to say to you , so much is crowding in , so much has happened in such a short while and I want to pin down some of this marvellous feeling before it all rushes by and becomes more accepted — because , Betty , I do feel that we accept each other , there is a tolerance , a straightness between us that makes it all possible . |
| 20 | Last month at Gladstone he remade the gallery space into his own architectural reality , placing within it various elements of his own invention including a human skeleton halved to make two , banners and posters bearing his iconic logos , knee-high tables and glass-etched panels . |
| 21 | The other insists that science has much in common with model-making , which differs from mapping in the modeller 's licence to construct an artificial world and include in it all sorts of features beyond all possible observation . |
| 22 | This general duty of the doctor , to control symptoms as much as possible and otherwise make the patient as comfortable as possible , has implicit in it two propositions worth noticing . |
| 23 | In it two standards of neutrality conflict . |
| 24 | Carry a ‘ black book ’ on outings , and record in it unacceptable behaviours by writing a short description in front of your child ( such as ‘ wandered off in supermarket ’ ) . |
| 25 | ‘ But I have gone over it many times in my mind about why we lost so heavily in India and one of the main reasons for me was that we were not used to playing on turning pitches . |
| 26 | Detective Superintendent Pat Crossan said : ‘ Mrs Wignall must have gone over it 1,000 times in her mind but she ca n't think of anything that triggered the attack . |
| 27 | I ran over it several times in my head afterwards . |
| 28 | Alternatively , the vendor may require the purchaser to assign to it all rights against third parties but the purchaser will wish to restrict the vendor 's ability to commence proceeding against customers as this may affect the goodwill of the business ; ( h ) to limit some of the warranties to the best of the vendor 's knowledge , information and belief . |
| 29 | However , as it is the only qualification in this area , we have endless problems in discouraging people from attributing to it all sorts of accreditations for which it was not designed and have to point out that it does not qualify people to interpret , give advice or act on behalf of others . |
| 30 | He describes how , by 1837 , the game had evolved into a highly complicated sport , containing all the ‘ typical characteristics of a genuinely national art form , … profoundly popular in origin , yet attracting to it disinterested elements of the leisured and educated classes ’ . |