Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 2 | The ghosts who do want to go haunting , do it for all sorts of different reasons . |
| 3 | Spiders use it for all kinds of purposes — making egg-sacs , lining nests , weaving tents for their babies and as safety lines when they jump . |
| 4 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 5 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 6 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 7 | Other European countries use prison sentencing much less than Britain , and use it for shorter periods of time . |
| 8 | I was climbing in low gear , my eyes searching the vehicle and the bank behind it for any sign of movement . |
| 9 | Any new food regime has to be simple to follow if you are to stick with it for any length of time . |
| 10 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't do it for any reason of self . ’ |
| 12 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 13 | But what is it about these forms of thought that is ‘ idealist ’ ? |
| 14 | You could regard it as that part of the personality which is contr in control of voluntary thought and movement . |
| 15 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 16 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 17 | They were very positive about community care and saw it as natural development of their work . |
| 18 | That is , an object seen as one sort of structure can be experienced ( and imagined ) in ways different from those made possible by seeing it as another sort of structure . |
| 19 | They see it as another example of the Government jumping to the tune of the SDLP . |
| 20 | You know when racing folk talk of the festival they describe it as three days of magic and madness , glory or grief . |
| 21 | They see it as important part of improving the service they give . |
| 22 | Did he see it as some kind of a challenge ? |
| 23 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 24 | The difference is that , while women see motherhood in emotional , hormonal terms , men see it as some sort of role-play . |
| 25 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 26 | He took it as some sort of betrayal . ’ |
| 27 | Many users panic when asked to press Ctrl or Alt and another key and treat it as some sort of test of agility ! |
| 28 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 29 | He certainly did n't take it as any evidence of preferment . |
| 30 | I got your address from your driving licence — you gave it as further proof of your identity . |