Example sentences of "[prep] it the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a canoe the view was even more restricted : the looming hinterland was there , but was the beach below it the right landfall ? |
| 2 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 3 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 4 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 7 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 8 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 9 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 10 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
| 11 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 12 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 13 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |
| 14 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 15 | Corporal Blagg had spent his childhood — those parts of it the local authority had n't been able to control — in the courts , alleyways and concrete ‘ gardens ’ of Rotherhithe 's blocks of flats . |
| 16 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
| 17 | anyway he went to the toilet , went a wee and I put him back in bed and he was laid there and anyway and , and he eventually dropped off , anyway I was telling my mum about it yesterday , and I did n't sort of think no more of it the next day , right , and mum I said well if ever he gets that again she said you should from the doctor she said , because , one of our boys had it she said and it was a blockage |
| 18 | She would remind Froggy of it the next time he ragged her for a noodle . |
| 19 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 20 | Seems he 's gone out of it the wrong way . |
| 21 | I do n't see how you could do a show , go to an analyst , work on a film and take ‘ poppers ’ or ‘ coke ’ or anything like it the whole time . ’ |
| 22 | The car rolled over on to its back with a grinding crash , exposing beneath it the bloodied meat of the two policemen who had been supervising the cordon . |
| 23 | Bourgeois democracy was seen as a facade , concealing the fact that behind it the capitalist class continued to rule and dominate bourgeois society . |
| 24 | Legislation in 1988 brought with it the central government decision to abolish the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) by 1990 , despite the opposition of 93 per cent of parents in Inner London . |
| 25 | I was lucky enough not to be court martialled , quite apart from getting away with it the first night . |
| 26 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 27 | Britain still has the highest debt to income ratio in Europe and the appetite for credit may not be blunted until the review date comes and with it the monetary day of doom . |
| 28 | But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker . |
| 29 | In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited . |
| 30 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |