Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 2 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 3 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 4 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 5 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 6 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 7 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 8 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 9 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 10 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 11 | Rewarded with a seat on the Privy Council , he held it for less than a month , dying of apoplexy 20 July 1675 . |
| 12 | ‘ What was it after all but an experiment ? |
| 13 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 14 | I have put it like that because the law does not mention God and concentrates on ‘ balance ’ rather than ‘ equal time ’ as some papers have reported . |
| 15 | And they used to count it like that and every hundred they stick a pin in see . |
| 16 | what you can do is wind it like that and the hose winds up . |
| 17 | Brazil 's pro-privatisation rhetoric needs to be supported by much further change in policy and practice to turn it into more than a minor curiosity in its history . |
| 18 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 19 | This is why although he dares to pose his overwhelming question , he can never be in a position to answer it with more than an assertion and the promise of more totalizations . |
| 20 | The Queen 's argument was that , if something was n't done about it in less than no time , she 'd have everybody executed , all round . |
| 21 | Two thirds of the Swiss population can reach it in less than an hour by road or rail . |
| 22 | It is made from heavy-duty plastic , which should protect it from all but the psychotically over-enthusiastic synthesist . |
| 23 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
| 24 | To attain any particular setting you watch the flap position indicator which is just below the manifold pressure gauge , depress the lever , then return it to neutral when the required degrees are shown . |
| 25 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 26 | We 're not going to do it at all if the King loses interest too early . ’ |
| 27 | People taking certain medicines should not take alcohol at the same time , or maybe not take it at all because the alcohol will have a more pronounced effect under/or the effect of the medicine will be altered . |
| 28 | And , they 've actually rated it at ten and a half thousand erm payable |
| 29 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 30 | I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 . |