Example sentences of "in it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who did n't get his leg over and smoke a few joints was n't in it as a normal human being . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In the Oxford of the late Sixties , anyone who did n't get his leg over and smoke a few joints was n't in it as a normal human being ’ |
| 3 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 4 | In Ireland she heartened the embryonic movement for the higher education of women by personally securing the involvement in it of the Roman Catholic convent-school nuns . |
| 5 | Their departure had something in it of the bowed and wretched mien of Adam and Eve in the many ‘ expulsion ’ paintings he had later seen , and by then the Garden itself had a ruined look , paradise destroyed . |
| 6 | There is a unity and perfection in it of an incommunicable kind . |
| 7 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 8 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 9 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 10 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 11 | Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display . |
| 12 | She had a cloud of short hair curving in clinging waves about her head , the colour of barley silk , and under the feathery fringe her forehead bulged childishly , with room in it for a notable brain , the one thing about her that was not suavely curved and ivory-smooth . |
| 13 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |
| 14 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 15 | The home side now began to look much the better side and Cummings kept Town in it with a fine selection of acrobatic saves . |
| 16 | will you sleep in it like a good boy ? |
| 17 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 19 | The emerging Turkish foreign ministry , a case in point , had about 200 salaried officials working in it in the early 1870s , at the end of the Tanzimat period of attempted administrative and legal reform . |
| 20 | And er , on the other side , the , the people interested in it in the social sciences , erm , did n't particularly like it , because , at that time , they were heavily dominated by er , Marxist and people on the left . |
| 21 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 22 | And though , of the two , the first is no longer available to support the judgment , the second — whether the Socialism perceived is dogmatic or diffident , Marxist or empirical — is operative still to provide , for better or for worse , assumptions about the form of industrial democracy and about the roles , contrasted or opposed , to be played in it by an industrial co-operative sector and the trade unions . |
| 23 | Primitive art may have confirmed them in their desire to achieve a greater directness of expression , but they remained interested in it from a visual point of view . |
| 24 | He took an interest in it from a scientific point of view and his etchings and aquatints show he had a clear understanding of different types of cloud formation and their associated weather . |
| 25 | At Hammersmith Erskine 's building will sit on an island site , doing its best to protect those who work in it from the surrounding aural and visual pollution . |
| 26 | In general , however , despite the fact that anachronisms do exist in the published text of the Kanunname , there seems to be good reason for supposing the provisions in it concerning the learned hierarchy to be basically genuine . |
| 27 | Thus , in order to increase the perceived representativeness of the National Council of the Resistance and to dilute the influence of the Communist Party within it , he insisted that all the major prewar parties — even the centrist and conservative parties which were mere phantoms in 1943 — should be represented in it alongside the new resistance movements . |