Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 2 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 3 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 4 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 5 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 6 | Crystal ( 1969 ) , pp. 100–4 , uses it in this sense ; see also Nolan ( 1973 ) . |
| 7 | So , if the retailer moves the tea or coffee every few weeks and replaces it with another product ( perhaps one that does n't sell as well ) he can bring it to the customer 's attention . |
| 8 | This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general , ahistorical terms . |
| 9 | He reaches up for it and takes it in both hands . |
| 10 | Peter not only hears it on this occasion but several times in the future , as the book of Acts shows . |
| 11 | She remembers it in this way , |
| 12 | This ‘ Gish ’ out-take is no earth-shattering pop classic , just a steely example of sweaty-fingered , control-freak intelligent-metal , and it still sounds eight to ten times superior to the Brit stuff that surrounds it in this week 's pile of singles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That policy does not work and if one applies it in that way one can only deepen slumps — just as the Government are doing now . |
| 15 | Those who seek to repair the damage caused by the creation of more wealth are only locking us more deeply into the source of the evil ; and Labour 's submission to this cruel belief robs it of any claim to significant opposition to the existing order . |
| 16 | One peculiar characteristic of the British Parliament that distinguishes it from many legislatures in other countries , and particularly from the United States Congress , is the slight use made of specialized committees . |
| 17 | It is an open economy in the technical sense that the ratios of both imports and exports to Gross Domestic product ( GDP ) have historically been high compared to other advanced industrial countries and in the broader sense that UK firms ' investments overseas are high , foreign firms ' ownership of UK enterprises is high , and the financial sector , the City , which is a major sector of the economy and dominates it in several ways , is essentially international in outlook . |
| 18 | The more nearly contemporary Mancini shares this view of Hastings ' removal as an unprovoked attack , but presents it without any reference to the Woodvilles . |
| 19 | The more nearly contemporary Mancini shares this view of Hastings ' removal as an unprovoked attack , but presents it without any reference to the Woodvilles . |
| 20 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 21 | Placing a camera in any situation usually diminishes it in some way , but the opposite is true of Hannah — the camera adores her . |
| 22 | … As to the matter of there being no appeal from an arbitrary sentence ; it is true , the case is the harder , because the party is concluded by one judgment , but it doth not lessen the validity of the sentence , nor doth it in any way prove that you shall find out some way to examine this matter at law in a judicial proceeding . |
| 23 | God hates it above all things . |
| 24 | Whilst other sections of the population are clearly severely affected by these government policies , disabled people experience these particular ‘ reforms ’ as an attack on their human right not to be incarcerated without trial and conviction , in so far as it renders it in some cases impossible to live outside institutions . |
| 25 | On the north side of this Paddock a low wall separates it from some buildings occasionally used for canine patients , but chiefly as a Storage … |
| 26 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 27 | One might therefore think that opening another slit would just increase the number of electrons hitting each point of the screen , but , because of interference , it actually decreases it in some places . |
| 28 | In a number of industries each firm 's product has some point of difference that differentiates it in some way from the products manufactured by other firms ; differentiation may be in terms of quality , design or even an intangible difference such as customers ' perceived image of the product . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , it does not have a lot of software support , and the price — about £750 — puts it beyond most people 's reach . |
| 30 | The first , stack ( x , y ) , takes a block x off the table and puts it on another block called y . |