Example sentences of "[prep] it the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also , by the time the programme drive came to an end [ when the Emergency ended and with it the effective coercive powers of than government ] , millions had suffered harassment at the hands of government officials bent on implementing it , many , perhaps hundreds , had died from it ; the political leaders who had willed it were out of power , and in disrepute , and the programme itself was in total disarray . |
| 2 | Have you remarked , where a fast-flowing stream comes to a little fall , how the racing water becomes glassy smooth and under it the long fine threads of the water-weed are drawn along in its still-seeming race , trembling a little , but stretched out in the flow ? |
| 3 | JR sent for the latest aged debt report , quickly extracted from it the top 20 customers and found what he now expected to find — that more than 80% ; of the total debts were due form these , although by number they amounted to considerably less than 20% ; of the total customer file . |
| 4 | This would need to retain within it the unique legal function of Convocation which would be restricted to those at present eligible to exercise it , that is to graduates and staff alone . |
| 5 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 6 | It is only when we put to it the rude experimental question " where are you ? " that it is forced to make the sharp choice between those two possibilities . |
| 7 | As such , no one would deny the unfairness and the imbalance in the system , and the need to reintroduce to it the fundamental legal precept of justice . |
| 8 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 9 | And before Sally-Anne could do anything about it the tall young man was tucking her arm in his , and walking her briskly along at such a pace that she was horrified to discover that Rose and her companion were gone , lost behind them as fresh crowds emerged from yet more emptying theatres and dance halls . |