Example sentences of "[prep] it [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | The position carries with it an attractive benefits package and career prospects within the Company are excellent . |
3 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
4 | This state obtains its name from the fact that in it the general conditions of production and consumption , of distribution and exchange remain motionless ; but yet it is full of movement ; for it is a mode of life . |
5 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
6 | In it the mutual affections of bishop and diocese can not be missed . |
7 | The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect . |
8 | And in it the wonderful words : ‘ will not now take place … ’ |
9 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
10 | But we do not believe that the pursuit of national efficiency can be ranked much lower — not least because without it the human rights themselves will not be secure . |
11 | Conservative Republicans like Maura and Alcalá Zamora , and even some individuals on the left , recognized the desirability of a modus vivendi between the Church and the Republic , and of the latter 's attracting to it the Catholic sectors of the urban middle class and peasantry . |
12 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
13 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
14 | She was somewhere in the middle of the seething ball of workers , while all around it the massed ranks of soldiers faced threateningly outwards with jaws agape , every one prepared to kill and to die in defence of the queen . |