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 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
| 6 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
| 7 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 8 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
| 11 | So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
| 21 | Seems he 's gone out of it the wrong way . |
| 22 | There is a double set of front pockets on each side — first a zipped pocket and in front of it an open patch pocket , and both are excellent , deep pockets . |
| 23 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
| 24 | All of them were occupied , but , without even a word from Guido , the proprietor snapped his fingers , and even as they were being led towards it an extra table was being laid . |
| 25 | But she was cooking and she was going you take , she goes , she goes , some people like it a little bit on the side , you know , with their food , some people on the side . |
| 26 | I do n't see how you could do a show , go to an analyst , work on a film and take ‘ poppers ’ or ‘ coke ’ or anything like it the whole time . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon . |
| 28 | A huge rocky outcrop at the far end jutted up and beneath it a small river or burn flowed quietly , turning and twisting as it followed its banks . |
| 29 | They have a third canal in a horizontal plane and beneath it a large sac . |
| 30 | The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash , exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon . |