Example sentences of "it [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but it 's a lot in n it for a film that you never know is gon na |
| 2 | What was it about a waistcoat that was so piercingly sexy ? she wondered dully . |
| 3 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 4 | Eva took it as a sign that she was going to get better . |
| 5 | Despite the increased deficit , IMF officials holding talks in Warsaw with the Polish government expressed satisfaction with the vote by the Sejm , seeing it as a sign that the government could push its programme through parliament . |
| 6 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 7 | They took it as a snub that Down failed to field at anything approaching full strength and now want to show that they are a match for the real thing . |
| 8 | It was not until Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) and Dean Inge ( 1860–1954 ) began to consider mysticism seriously that Anglicans started to see it as a spirituality that was authentically Christian . |
| 9 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 10 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 11 | For example , when a human reader sees a word such as ’ hence ’ , ’ therefore ’ or ’ thus ’ , they interpret it as a signal that the next sentence will express some consequence of what has just been said [ Brooks & warren , 1970 ] . |
| 12 | Similarly , when they see words like ’ however ’ or ’ but ’ , they interpret it as a signal that the next sentence will express something opposing what has just been said . |
| 13 | Indeed , the identification of meaning with the material form of language ( words , sentences , speech ) is a precondition of ordinary language use ; to use language is to trust it as a tool that expresses meaning . |
| 14 | I treat it as a compliment that people say I 'm a marked man now , though I doubt it 's true . ’ |
| 15 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 16 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 17 | Well , people that I spoke to , spoken to from Cardiff , they they originally got involved because one of the lads used to work up in the factory , the chairman of their labour club , and after that I do n't , politically you know it started off completely non political , but after a while people latched on to it as a dispute that could be won , and you know that would be one up for the workers and the country . |
| 18 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 19 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 20 | They see it as an indication that workers are moving out of jobs where they are no longer very efficient to areas where they are more productive . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's strange , and I just hope younger players do n't see it as an example that international football is something you retire from early . ’ |
| 22 | Please do not take it as an example that you may all leap to your feed to make your bids . |
| 23 | The Tories regard it as an aberration that would be catastrophic for Britain 's system of government . |
| 24 | Think of it as an investment that your tips will pay you back . ’ |
| 25 | And he did it through a method that was little less than divinely inspired . |
| 26 | That 's it like a desk that 's really that that was the American way of spelling it but we spell it that way now . |
| 27 | it into a substance that can be easily removed using a detergent . |
| 28 | In the case of this group , they were able to define the questions related to strategy , to conduct their own inquiries , to have staff people conduct some relevant research , to have three individuals organise it into a presentation that was ultimately approved and owned by the top group . |
| 29 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 30 | Put simply , if you wish to make a reactive intermediate , incorporate it into a molecule that contains something which is stable on its own . |