Example sentences of "[prep] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 2 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 3 | Each stance is capable of performing what is required of it in the right context . |
| 4 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 5 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 6 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 7 | He tells the latest fruit of it in the enclosed letter . |
| 8 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |
| 9 | The public got a very early taste of it in the late 1970s when he was invited to play in the World International single wicket competition at The Oval . |
| 10 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |
| 11 | The Commission must copy a notification to the relevant authorities in the member states and provided that it is complete , immediately publish brief details of it in the Official Journal . |
| 12 | Oh yes , yes oh yes a lot of it in the thirties , tremendous amount of unemployment . |
| 13 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 14 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 15 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 16 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 17 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 18 | He has enjoyed every minute of it in the certain knowledge that he was never going to be held to account by being elected . |
| 19 | There 's little sign of it in the boarded-up , recession-blasted shopfronts and litter-strewn pavements of the north-west London suburb , and in neighbouring Neasden its distant echo was last heard when self-proclaimed ‘ Queen of Soul ’ Mari Wilson reared her bee-hived head . |
| 20 | The particular themes of PNP needs , curriculum , teaching strategies , home and school — remain areas of central concern , and about each of them there is now a substantial body of conceptual and empirical material to be tapped , some of it in the twelve PRINDEP reports . |
| 21 | A lot has been said already in the English-speaking world about poststructuralism and politics , much of it in the accusatory mode voiced from the opposing class-based verities of ‘ tradition ’ or ‘ History ’ . |
| 22 | Do you think there 's enough of it in the educational profession , or do you think that one ought to go in for much more evaluation ? |
| 23 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 24 | If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) . |
| 25 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 26 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 27 | United Parcel Service is to invest more than £15,000 in Langholm this year , most of it in the sevens , which will be played on 1 May ( 2pm ) . |
| 28 | Lord Justice Watkins would have none of it in the high court in January . |
| 29 | Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel . |
| 30 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |