Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was a bench at one side of it with empty tea cups on it and some comic papers . |
| 4 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 5 | At the deepest level this is its symmetry with the social order within which it operates , and the ‘ non-market ’ or ‘ subsidized ’ type of production is often an aspect of this symmetry in that by selecting certain kinds of work for partial exemption from the market — kinds valued within the distribution of preferences within a received social order and a dominant social class — it in one sense protects the market from other kinds of social and cultural challenge . |
| 6 | The first use of it in British diplomacy seems to have been by the Paris embassy in December 1852 : by the middle of the following year the missions in Vienna , Berlin and Florence could also communicate in this way with London , and from 1878 British diplomatic telegrams were numbered in the same way as despatches . |
| 7 | You assume , in your issue on Underground Work ( NI 173 ) that the relationship of the individual to the state is both natural and inevitable , and that it in some way presupposes fair treatment of the citizen by the powers that be . |
| 8 | Particularly if there 's any suggestion that anything a bit like hypnosis has been used um this er business of of well it must be the therapist making them up or putting them up to it in some way becomes a particular argument that 's raised quite often . |
| 9 | It was argued above that , while it in some way reflects the truth about the wordings which were used in classical law , it was not employed as the touchstone by which new wordings were tried . |
| 10 | They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future . |
| 11 | Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month . |
| 12 | Right it 's a green gas and it 's also what it does it to this paper turns it acid to start with and then takes the colour away it is a bleach . |
| 13 | D is not required to prove any of this : in a murder trial , if there is sufficient evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , the judge is bound to leave provocation to the jury , and the burden of disproving it beyond reasonable doubt lies upon the prosecution . |
| 14 | Every schoolchild the world over knows the profile of the Taj , and in so far as Safdarjung 's tomb is different , it at first sight looks wrong : its lines look somehow faulty , naggingly incorrect . |