Example sentences of "[prep] it and [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They are light green and very delicate-looking , having a prominent midrib , several lateral veins on either side of it and numerous cross-veins .
2 It is also called St Austin 's Stone , because of the legend that St Augustine ( also known as ‘ Austin' ) preached from it and baptized converts in the spring below .
3 Sparks flew from it and shadowy figures cried : ‘ Look out . ’
4 By contrast , in London " talking black " or " chatting Patois " can be seen as a social act where speakers , coming to the conversation with similar models of the stereotyped " Creole " , but different degrees of competence in it and different amounts of motivation , negotiate a language which they agree is " Patois " / " Creole " / " black talk " etc .
5 Durham Cathedral stands vast , an enormous monument , virtually of a piece and in an incredible position , with the river running round it and steep banks . ’
6 if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it .
7 It must , however , still bulk large in any examination of English urban life , not only because many of its characteristics were common to it and other towns , but also because they can be most fully studied there .
8 I swam out to it and tied ropes to it .
9 Various reasons are suggested to explain the resurgence in recent years but the weight of opinion is that it is operational problems that are at fault rather than technical deficiencies — for example , poor application of the insecticide rather than resistance to it and organisational shortcomings rather than aberrant behaviour of vectors .
10 She likes advice with her kind of spin on it and brisk meetings with those most closely involved .
11 A broad terrace ran round it with tufts of herbs growing on it and broken steps leading down on to the ruins of a lawn .
12 It may be possible to gues the outcome in the northeast , but the Southwest is anybody 's and all three main parties have their eyes on it and local issues are being played to the maximum .
13 The size spectrum of tawny owl prey is similar to that of the two British samples of barn owl , so that the size variation of the prey within a wide ranging predator like the barn owl is greater than the prey size variation between it and other predators .
14 Acrylics Business general manager , Philip Felcey , forecasts continued rapid growth for it and similar products into the 1990s .
15 This was a function of the domanial estate-structure ( sometimes known to English-speaking historians as the manorial system ) , that is of a central directly-farmed agricultural unit , having peasant-tenements grouped around it and owing labour-services on it , and more distant tenements associated with it owing other types of dues and services .
16 An estimated 40,000 are held by it and other agencies , but since they are on paper , they fall outside the act .
17 A formal letter of introduction from Queen 's University , Belfast , was carried , to be produced on demand as accreditation ; it proved however to be useful mainly for dealing with the security forces , since unwilling interviewees were not impressed by it and willing ones did not request it .
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