Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 2 | For the reader about to abandon the book this may easily uncover previously undisclosed information ; for the committed reader it can add to his overall perspective on the book , thus helping him understand the relation of the parts to the whole , e.g. D. Marquand , Ramsay MacDonald ( 1977 ) , is about more than a former Prime Minister . |
| 3 | For the mutual inductance it is not needed . |
| 4 | In learning to account for its difference from non-Europe , it also had to account for this supremacy , for the unquestionable success it had had in imposing its hegemony on ‘ inferior ’ cultures . |
| 5 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 6 | The recommended swingweight for a lady is from C1 to C8 , for the average man it is from C9 to D4 , and for the professional from DO to D4 . |
| 7 | For the young woman it was the obvious choice . |
| 8 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 9 | Yet there the figure remained and was , in a way , still less acceptable , for the mean spirit it betrayed lacked stature . |
| 10 | The overall mean for the 1984–5 sample was 54 per cent and for the 1985–6 sample it was 53 per cent . |
| 11 | On telecommunications , Banegas took the opportunity to criticise the government for the little interest it has shown in putting an end to the import of unauthorised pirate telephones , 3m of which are now in Spain . |
| 12 | The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines , ZCCM , will be asked to pay for the environmental damage it has allegedly caused for the last 24 years , under the terms of the recently-approved Environment and Pollution Act . |
| 13 | However , their analysis goes beyond encouraging us to ’ vote with our feet ’ , to a condemnation of consumerism itself : Both for the environmental destruction it causes and the damaging messages it sends women through ads that constantly tell us we 're ’ not being discreet enough ’ . |
| 14 | Ford has added a turbocharger to provide a better performance for the 2.5-litre diesel it offers in the spacious Granada ( as well as a 1.8 turbo diesel in the Sierra range ) . |
| 15 | This looks like a case of a random example ; for the only problem it could create would be by failing to fall within a category of admissible wordings . |
| 16 | For the international economy it hopefully brings about a more efficient allocation of investment or financial resources . |
| 17 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 18 | RUDOLF Diesel 's patent may be 100 years old , but if one company could be said to have re-invented the concept in recent years for the small hatchback it must be Volkswagen . |
| 19 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 20 | For the entire period it accounts for some 70 per cent of the year-to-year variation in the rate of change of aggregate union membership . |
| 21 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 22 | For the first year it is in continual body contact with its mother , clinging tightly to her as she travels and climbing all over her when she stops . |
| 23 | When Haynes and Best put on 113 for the first wicket it all became academic , the main interest being whether Best would get his hundred . |
| 24 | For the first round it was a nice day in the morning , but we were out in late afternoon and we played eighteen holes in drizzle . |
| 25 | The hardline leadership admitted for the first time it regretted the exodus , admitted there were problems and conceded it might be partly to blame . |
| 26 | But as the field swung away from the stands for the first time it became clear that the grey would not have matters entirely to his liking , for first Kildimo and then Ten Of Spades kept him close company and would not allow him to dominate affairs . |
| 27 | But on 20 September the Commission announced that for the first time it would take Britain before the European Court of Justice . |
| 28 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 29 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 30 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |