Example sentences of "[prep] it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The defendant was held liable for trespass , for ‘ the right to the possession draws after it a constructive possession , which is sufficient to support the action . ’ |
2 | From a canoe the view was even more restricted : the looming hinterland was there , but was the beach below it the right landfall ? |
3 | This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact . |
4 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
5 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
6 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
7 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
8 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
9 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
10 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
11 | Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use . |
12 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
13 | So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry . |
14 | And just have a little of it every half hour ? |
15 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
16 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
17 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
18 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
19 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
20 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
21 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
22 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
23 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
24 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
25 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
26 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |
27 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
28 | Corporal Blagg had spent his childhood — those parts of it the local authority had n't been able to control — in the courts , alleyways and concrete ‘ gardens ’ of Rotherhithe 's blocks of flats . |
29 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
30 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |