Example sentences of "[prep] it [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Hume went further , transferring causal power from the world of objects to the mind , making of it a tendency of the mind to pass from the thing we call ‘ the cause ’ to the one we call ‘ the effect ’ . |
| 2 | Well you can think of it a bit like that . |
| 3 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 4 | In front of it a number of candles were burning . |
| 5 | Nori was successful in having overturned by legal action or the threat of it a number of government proposals in late 1989 and early 1990 . |
| 6 | ‘ This is all very well but I do n't see in any of it a motive for murder . |
| 7 | The Merger Regulation indicates in its recitals that if the parties ' combined market share does not exceed 25 per cent in the EC or in a substantial part of it a merger between them is unlikely to impede effective competition . |
| 8 | She picked up her heavy knitting-bag and took out of it a half-bottle of gin and a small tin of Nescafe — only it was n't Nescafe , because it rattled . |
| 9 | A lot of it A lot of it is just is just down to erm marketing |
| 10 | I do find I 'm conscious of it a lot of the time . |
| 11 | Other people probably can forget about it cos I 'm wearing it , I feel conscious of it a lot of the time . |
| 12 | We broke the back of it a lot on the work that we did for Rickmansworth . |
| 13 | It was perhaps precisely because both sovereigns were well aware of the criticisms which might be made of their Court that in order to fulfil their public roles in accordance with the aims which they had set themselves , they worked to make of it a thing of great splendour . |
| 14 | First of all it was the quality of it the intensity of it . |
| 15 | On the face of it the motives of Ford and Fiat appeared to be similar , but the key difference was that Ford 's share of the Italian car market was minimal , whereas Fiat 's was in excess of 55 per cent . |
| 16 | but when you think of it the cost of the superintendent doing display work is enormous is n't it |
| 17 | The direction specifically requires ( in para 4 ) that each report should state on the face of it the name of the party on whose behalf the expert has given the report , the date on which it is given ( of course that can be avoided by the use of an indexed bundle ) , and whether or not it is agreed by the other parties . |
| 18 | But that 's not the end of it the Director of Property has very kindly plotted where this land is and I will show you the plan , the yellow spots are the land in hand . |
| 19 | And now I come to think of it the light in here is not what it was . |
| 20 | Leaning out of it the figure of Charlie Chaplin waved to anyone who cared to look up , frozen forever in that pose . |
| 21 | The conference is expected to last at least three months — but by the end of it the Department of Transport may have a publically acceptable solution to Hereford 's traffic jams . |
| 22 | In the Cox Report we therefore set out our rationale for explicit knowledge about language in a separate section , and printed as part of it the statements of attainment about knowledge about language from the three profile components , bringing them together in order to show their coherence . |
| 23 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 24 | On his way into Spain in 76 BC , Pompey annexed the valley of the river Garonne , which forms the main axis of Comminges , and four years later , on his way back from Spain , he founded at the northern end of it the city of Lugdunum Convenarum , where Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges stands today . |
| 25 | it 's all colour , you need lots of it the age of the hippy . |
| 26 | He emptied his mind , he walked like an automaton up on to the green ride , seeing at the end of it the cameo of stacked meadows , segments of wood , a church tower . |
| 27 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 28 | If it uses weapons of mass destruction against our [ Arab ] nation , we will use against it the weapons of mass destruction in our possession [ see p. 37390 ] . " |
| 29 | At the top end you put a wad of chemical explosive and beneath it a slug of Plutonium 239 . |
| 30 | It slid down the wall , leaving behind it a trail of dark brown juice , like bile . |