Example sentences of "[prep] it [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharing hell can make the recognition of it that little bit more bearable , but it is still hell , and the loneliness and despair , the darkness and confusion , are never far from the surface . |
| 2 | It had the feel of it this little garden you know , the doors , the paintwork everything about it it gave you that feel . |
| 3 | The ‘ executive ’ power today is important in part because it carries with it such wide powers of initiation of legislation . |
| 4 | This uplift brought with it many large colonies of corals one of which , this massive colony of , we sampled and brought back to the lab . |
| 5 | First , a infecting plasmid may bring with it some metabolic ability or resistance to some drug . |
| 6 | Since lots of birds have highly conspicuous plumage , the possession of such plumage would seem to carry with it some real advantages . |
| 7 | This is shown by the judgment of Lord Greene in Saltman where he said : " If two parties make a contract under which one of them obtains for the purpose of the contract or in connection with it some confidential matter , even though the contract is silent on the matter of confidence the law will imply an obligation to treat that confidential matter in a confidential way as one of the implied terms of the contract ; but the obligation of confidence is not limited to cases where the parties are in a contractual relationship " . |
| 8 | If it is like hell , it is sometimes a cosy sort of hell , snug with the smell of clay , but the work is treacherous , and the machinery has brought with it some new risks . |
| 9 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |
| 10 | When BMK joined the Stoddard Group in 1992 it brought with it another large chunk of Stoddard 's carpet manufacturing history . |
| 11 | sort that cultural otherness does not carry with it any necessary hierarchy of superiority/inferiority which can be appropriately labelled by such terms as " primitive " , " backward " , " underdeveloped " , " childish " , " ignorant " , " simple " , " primeval " , " pre-literate " , or whatever . |
| 12 | This first wave of West Walians to the new industrial areas of north-eastern South Wales brought a distinctive radical , nonconformist , and Welsh-speaking element to a pastoral community that had remained largely conservative and unchanged from the late seventeenth century and was slowly losing the old Welsh language — rapidly so in Monmouthshire — and along with it any acute sense of separate national identity . |
| 13 | The reaction of the urban proletariat was natural ; one can not safely deduce from it any decisive change in attitude towards death and survival . |
| 14 | It is becoming increasingly clear that the inquiry will never have before it any detailed assessment of the safety of the actual design which the CEGB will use to build the Sizewell reactor . |
| 15 | In the same way , we must make a plan of our spiritual garden and have in it many different gardens . |
| 16 | ‘ 5(1) Property shall be regarded as belonging to any person having possession or control of it , or having in it any proprietary right or interest ( not being an equitable interest arising only from an agreement to transfer or grant an interest ) . … |
| 17 | By s.5(1) of the Theft Act 1968 : [ p ] roperty shall be regarded as belonging to any person having possession or control of it , or having in it any proprietary right or interest ( not being an equitable interest arising only from an agreement to transfer or grant an intent ) . |
| 18 | She did find in it some thin satisfaction |
| 19 | In it this English master printmaker wrote lucidly and well about the range of possibilities in his profession . |
| 20 | There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader , coming upon it all sixty years after the event , squirm with embarrassment . |
| 21 | This sort of optimism about sexuality that seemed to have inside it this implicit model that sexuality was a good thing , that that by erm experiencing more sexuality , more sexual pleasure , we could all be happier , nicer people , that there was n't anything inherently wrong with sex . |
| 22 | We can , however , have a reasonable faith that there is , based on the realization that without it all moral thought is a complete illusion . |
| 23 | This problem has to be tackled head on ; without it any other tinkering with the legislation is just a waste of time . ’ |
| 24 | In time , she hoped that some theatrical Producer would see to it that Shakespearian plays were performed on the cliffs again , as they had been in the nineteen thirties . |
| 25 | He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies . |
| 26 | Er , oh yes well I think it , I think bearing in mind the size of the hotels , I think probably it would be a help if there was something sort of decided , but I , I know , I 'm , I 'm a wee bit sort of , possibly like yourself , er I might order something now and then not look forward to it that particular night |
| 27 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 28 | 8.1 In the event that the Secretary of State shall reject the Proposal either generally or as respects the proposed funding or participation of any proposed Party in the Project or if the Grant Offer Letter shall not have been issued and accepted by the Parties within six months of the date of execution hereof , then upon such rejection or the expiration of such six month period the Project shall , unless otherwise agreed , be deemed abandoned , the Proposal shall be withdrawn and any rights hereunder shall be deemed to have been terminated and each Party shall be entitled to require each other Party forthwith to deliver up and return to it all Technical Information and all other information supplied by it in connection with the Proposal together with all copies thereof in any form in the possession of such other Parties or any of its Related companies . |
| 29 | When we create a new nation , however , we can not transfer to it this prescriptive authority which is the essence of our own state . |
| 30 | The tavern , we learn from Walford , originally had attached to it some extensive pleasure grounds . |