Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 2 | I do n't sort of think of it as art going in the other direction . |
| 3 | We like to think of it as extortion do n't we ? |
| 4 | Nevertheless , government-funded research now runs into several millions of pounds a year , most of it for matters related to social policy . |
| 5 | Regrettably this manuscript has been lost within the British Library for the last twenty years , and studies of it at present have to be based on photographic records . |
| 6 | This engine , ‘ Lion ’ was an 0-4-2 for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway , and had a remarkable career , much of it at Princes Dock , Liverpool , where it was used by the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board as a stationary boiler until it was discovered in almost original condition and restored at Crewe for the 1930 L & M R film ‘ The Titfield Thunderbolt ’ . |
| 7 | I have seen huge clumps of it on roadside bands in Greece , the deeply divided , dark green leaves bristling with formidable spines , a most fearsome spectacle , and easily recreated in a warm , sunny , well-drained spot in the garden . |
| 8 | Yeah , they 've had it excerpts of it on television have n't they ? |
| 9 | For example I often paint an area with retouching varnish mixed with pigment as a glaze , then I absorb much of it with newspaper dabbed onto the canvas . |
| 10 | Alternatively , if the beaker of water was previously at a higher temperature energy would have been transferred out of it in order to reach a temperature of 50°C . |
| 11 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc puts the need to fire 15% of its workforce — and the consequent $2.7m loss for the quarter to April 3 ( CI No 2,156 ) down to the fact that — in common with most other manufacturers in its area — is now doing little of its own manufacturing but sub-contracts most of it in order to benefit from application of the latest techniques in areas such as surface mounting . |
| 12 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 13 | However , Joyce did return to the work , and in 1938 he ‘ cannibalised ’ the text , incorporating parts of it in Finnegans Wake . |
| 14 | After a break , the play had more life with it as City stepped up the pressure and encamping their opponent 's half for long periods . |
| 15 | If you do this , you must remember to CLOSE the file when you have finished with it in order to update the directory entry . |
| 16 | Yet despite its breakneck evolution , Medeva has been put together in pursuit of a definite strategic plan , and it looks as though the pharmaceutical world will become very familiar with it in years to come . |
| 17 | We may say that a living body or organ is well designed if it has attributes that an intelligent and knowledgeable engineer might have built into it in order to achieve some sensible purpose , such as flying , swimming , seeing , eating , reproducing , or more generally promoting the survival and replication of the organism 's genes . |
| 18 | Although coral is a calcium carbonate , it has an open porosity which allows bone to grow into it after implantation promoting a mechanical fixation with the natural bone . |
| 19 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 20 | Briefly then , the rule of dovetailing ( like all other artistic laws ) must not take precedence of common sense , but must be regarded as the normal procedure , and deviations from it as exceptions requiring justification . |
| 21 | I found the shop I wanted ; an open Bible and a quote from it in Spanish written across the glass in white-wash . |
| 22 | How we collect this information will certainly affect how well we can draw inferences from it in order to modify and improve the unit . |
| 23 | Groses service to Wolverton Works continued until Ted Smith in 1927 bought a lorry used for general haulage during the day , and in the mornings and evenings placed forms within it for Wolverton Works men . |
| 24 | This category has a huge degree of variation in it with boards varying in length from 3.60–3.75m and having equally large differences in volume . |
| 25 | Then at the crest of each polished wave , the blackness broke for a moment into the dark green of very deep water , and the sun shimmered in it like light varnished over . |
| 26 | And I saw a hole in the bottom at the side of it where they had blasted a hole in it in order to sink it . |
| 27 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 28 | The ‘ state ’ thus becomes literally a bone of contention between opposed interests , both of whom want control over it in order to decide what precisely its role shall be and in whose interest the market shall be managed . |
| 29 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 30 | They propose a more comprehensive assessment of LFA handicaps on a farm by farm basis with HLCAs linked to it in order to create a more favourable climate for conservation . |