Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's mainly for adults , but the Home Office is considering using part of it for young people awaiting trial or sentence.It 's that potential for criminal cross fetilisation that 's worrying the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course , this villa has no right to be here , ’ Nigel told them , ‘ but since it is we must save it for future generations to enjoy . ’ |
| 3 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 4 | Island Graphics says it has added multimedia features to IslandPresents , the graphics packages it introduced back at Uniforum , and has started delivering it for Sparc-based systems fitted with Open Look and Open Windows 3.0 . |
| 5 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 6 | Real progress was made at the UN-sponsored talks on Afghanistan in May 1986 since it was agreed that Soviet troop withdrawals should begin simultaneously with the cessation of external interference and not after it as Soviet officials had previously insisted . |
| 7 | Yanto attached the crane hook to his latest sling of timber , steadied it as Tiny Bennion took the strain , and watched it disappear through the hatch . |
| 8 | The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing . |
| 9 | The action has played a strong part in industrial safety but attempts to introduce it into other areas have been less successful . |
| 10 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 11 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 12 | In fact the United States was already tilting towards Israel in order to prevent its economic collapse but intending to ‘ progressively reduce the amount of economic aid to Israel , so as to bring it into impartial relationship to aid to others in the area ’ . |
| 13 | When we have one of those we shall have to chop it into little bits to eat wo n't we ? |
| 14 | And you also see the other function of the relief road as a means of distributing local traffic er around the fringe of Harrogate er and trying to push it onto other radials to get into the town centre . |
| 15 | When we have a £6 million food and drink deficit , it is no use reducing Scottish production to replace it with cheap imports form eastern Europe . |
| 16 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 17 | For instance , erm when he speaks the fact that the young man was cut off in his prime , perhaps the most famous passage of the lot ‘ Alas what boots it with incessant care to tend the homely slighted shepherd 's trade and strictly meditate the thankless muse . |
| 18 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 19 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
| 20 | Known as bacteroids , they then begin the process of nitrogen fixation and the resulting ammonia is absorbed by the host plant which combines it with glutamic acid to produce glutamine . |
| 21 | A tower wagon was waiting at the Lower Church Street corner to remove the junction in the overhead wires as soon as the last trolleybus had passed and replace it with plain wires leading only in the Mitcham direction . |
| 22 | The most sophisticated cooks use lemon grass whole or coarsely cut when preparing the stock for a soup or sauce and remove it when the dish is almost complete , replacing it with fine slices to focus and refresh the flavour . |
| 23 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 24 | I chose my favourite poem in the book and wrote one verse on the accompanying card , and then decorated it with pressed flowers to match the bookmark . |
| 25 | For a start , it will be necessary to invest it with sufficient authority to act with independence and integrity as a basis for effective oversight of the financial reporting process . |
| 26 | The dependency structure representing the reading was converted into a network form , and enriched by conflating it with definitional information associated with the word senses it contained . |
| 27 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 28 | There was a bench at one side of it with empty tea cups on it and some comic papers . |
| 29 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 30 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |