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

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1 Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall .
2 Philip and she spent sixty pounds of it that afternoon on a secondhand gas boiler .
3 As far as the first case is concerned , I take it that part of the process of rational reflection on a set of moral principles and courses of action for myself would involve consulting others ( the experts , if you like ) .
4 They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute .
5 He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown .
6 A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment .
7 But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time .
8 In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time .
9 But not everybody saw it that way at the time .
10 A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’
11 She was forced into it that night in The Chase .
12 ‘ If your form is n't so clear , you 're not going to get it right sitting on the bench . ’
13 ‘ We call it bouncing stones across the water . ’
14 Is it total insertion of the penis into the vagina ?
15 An exclusion clause gives the party relying on it total exemption for the breach whereas a limitation clause limits liability to a specified amount .
16 Moffatt , whose long lay-off was due to a facial injury , made it eight wins in a row ( five inside the distance ) by forcing Dhalie into retirement at the end of the fourth round with a damaged shoulder .
17 Was it some trick of the light ?
18 The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market .
19 Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy .
20 To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony .
21 To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions .
22 At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats .
23 It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future .
24 Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous .
25 In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide .
26 It occurred in the Foreign Office and the Foreign Office , and I personally take full responsibility for it this afternoon before the House .
27 Dougal had read all about it this afternoon in the public library at Swiss Cottage .
28 Okay try try it this way with the man hours anyway .
29 and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go
30 I 'm I 'll I ca n't manage it this side of the weekend .
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