Example sentences of "it [verb] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 2 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |
| 3 | It is not a serious one for the discipline , nor even in human terms does it compare with the undesirable side-effects of technological innovations in practical life and scientific research . |
| 4 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 5 | A fair proportion of the cells they recorded from gave rhythmic bursts of high-frequency firing , at the rate of some 4–12 per second , more or less irrespective of what the animal was doing ; this rhythmic activity is interesting because it corresponds with the so-called theta rhythm of the EEG , and may be an aspect of the attentional processes necessary for the learning or remembering of particular activities . |
| 6 | This , Corris calls the ‘ North Sea Gas Option ’ after the massive conversion exercise in the 1970s when UK Gas Board had to replace or convert every domestic gas cooker to get it to work with the new fuel . |
| 7 | It starts with the normal Monday night live Premier League game on Sky Sports at 7pm , this week between Crystal Palace and Chelsea from Selhurst Park . |
| 8 | It starts with the minor gods working to irrigate the land , then rebelling at their lot , from which they are relieved by the creation of man who is to do the work instead . |
| 9 | The amount of coal that is used is very much a question that is in the hands of British Coal as it negotiates with the current generating authorities . |
| 10 | Just off vertical , with 40 metres of 5b moves and a runner every other move , it ranks with the best single pitch routes in the district . |
| 11 | ‘ What we all want to find out I suppose : who killed Paul Gray and was it done with the regimental sword from the Infantry chapel ? ’ |
| 12 | what I would like and I 'm sure it happens with the previous C P O er and I have been notified by telephone and I keep saying to them let me know , but I would like probably a memo from each C P O to say that there is a meeting on this particular night . |
| 13 | The fall , when it came with the Eighties , was from a great height . |
| 14 | For in addition to the package that it negotiated with the delightful Mrs Morozova back in 1990 , came the equally delightful and extremely talented Miss Roubanova , the 13 year old daughter of Olga and her husband , Victor . |
| 15 | What does it do with the first spiral ( 5 ) as it makes this new spiral . |
| 16 | The longer one is so possessed , the more difficult it is to exorcise the sasoo spirit , since , ‘ like a real spouse ’ , it merges with the very flesh and bone of the victim . |
| 17 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 18 | It happened with the same naturalness that had first drawn them together , and in taking her he felt the greatest fulfilment of his life . |
| 19 | After ten more lines of self-abasement to ‘ my sovereign ’ from ‘ a sad slave ’ it ends with the biting couplet : ‘ So true a fool is love that in your will , /Though you do anything , he thinks no ill . ’ |
| 20 | The fourth congress of the ruling Communist Party ( PCC ) , scheduled to take place in August in Santiago de Cuba , was postponed until the autumn , ostensibly because it conflicted with the simultaneous hosting of the Pan-American Games . |
| 21 | The law , the most draconian to have been passed by any mainland state , could not take immediate effect because it conflicted with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision — the foundation of legalized abortion in the USA . |
| 22 | At 1 p.m. it rode round Madrid with the other Councils in full dress to restore order and in the following days it co-operated with the French authorities in the collection of arms . |
| 23 | The interplanetary magnetic field ( IMF ) is shown pointing southward , allowing it to reconnect with the northward-pointing ‘ closed ’ geomagnetic field lines(c) at a neutral line ( X ) in the subsolar magnetopause . |
| 24 | The Canadian government intervened with measures to help the fishermen and other measures to help the fish ; and though it acted with the best of intentions , it had the worst of results . |
| 25 | It opened with the ultimate statement , ‘ We love you all . ’ |
| 26 | But the growth in knowledge enabled by the activities of reading , meditation and contemplative prayer grows in time ; it engages with the inexhaustible wisdom of God . |
| 27 | Although no firm progress was made at this stage much of the evidence is of interest as it deals with the environmental and development pressures resulting from such a link . |
| 28 | The passage below illustrates the stylistic interest of Golding 's novel : it deals with the prehistoric struggle for survival between homo sapiens and Neanderthal man , resulting in the latter 's extinction . |
| 29 | It deals with the necessary conveyancing following the making of a court order or agreement between the parties relating to the matrimonial home and with the disentangling of life policies should that be necessary . |
| 30 | Like its three predecessors , Textermination is a cautionary novel , for it deals with the gradual ( ex ) termination of novelistic worlds . |