Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A throw forward occurs when a player carrying the ball throws or passes it in the direction of his opponents ' dead-ball line ’ . |
| 2 | In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition . |
| 3 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 4 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 5 | Scotland is extremely lucky in this context , with its record on beef , whisky and salmon — not to mention oatcakes and haggis — which sets it apart or differentiates it from the rest of the market place . |
| 6 | In other circumstances all that needs to be done if the transaction is a domestic one , whereby , say , a shareholder transfers his holding as a gift to a member of his family or sells it to an acquaintance , is for the transferor to hand over to the transferee a signed share transfer together with the share certificate which the transferee will lodge with the company and the register will then be amended by adding the transferee and noting that the transferor has ceased to be a member or shareholder in respect of the shares . |
| 7 | It is an open question whether this higher-level information dictates the lower-level interpretation ( as in HARPY , HWIM and Hearsay-II ) or enhances it through some sort of feedback mechanism ( as in TRACE ) , or selects it from a pool of candidates . |
| 8 | So takes it up and knits it on the back . |
| 9 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 10 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 11 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 12 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 13 | It 's more a case of conceptual comedy that takes a topical theme like the travellers and tackles it in a right-on way , trying to draw the humour from it . |
| 14 | Frodo the Ring bearer does not really want to carry the Ring and offers it to the elf-queen Galadriel . |
| 15 | Quite apart from the deafening thunder of the falls , and the awe-inspiring sight of their dramatic descent , the effect can be sheer magic on a fine day ; as the sunlight catches the spray in flight , and transforms it into an elusive pattern of shapes and colours that suggest in painting the Impressionism of Manet or the mists of Corot , or in music , the evocative nuances of Debussy . |
| 16 | He brings the teddy bear and sits it on the windowsill where it can watch us . |
| 17 | The ownership of productive property defines this class and separates it from the rest of society . |
| 18 | At Skouriotissa a bulldozer scoops up ancient slag and dumps it on a new road . |
| 19 | To take only one example , the planet Jupiter had to be represented correctly , including its moving cloud formations , before the fantasy element where a black hole containing obelisks ‘ devours ’ the planet and turns it into a sun . |
| 20 | There 's a utility called convert that takes a GIF file and turns it into a BMP . |
| 21 | Human computation is wonderfully sensitive to context ; it captures the spirit in the message and turns it into the appropriate letters . |
| 22 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 23 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 24 | He hands me the silver tube , lights a match and holds it under the foil while I suck in and follow the smoke . |
| 25 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 26 | Measure for Measure takes this basic pattern and develops it in a new direction . |
| 27 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 28 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 29 | The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions . |
| 30 | It provides also for management of resources outside the EEZs , both high-seas fish stocks and the resources of the sea bed ; the latter it declares to be ‘ the common heritage of mankind ’ and places it under the control of an International Sea-bed Authority . |