Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence .
2 As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits .
3 He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’
4 Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program .
5 I 've still got bits of it about the porno magazines and that though .
6 GPU alleges that the commission failed to warn it about the safety hazards of the Three Mile Island reactor .
7 Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) .
8 The starting point must be the teacher 's current perception of the problem if there is to be a widening of awareness and reframing of it as the exploration proceeds .
9 Balanced with a diet of the gospels , I would look on it as the church planters ' manual .
10 He couldnae fit it through the church doors ! ’
11 She was even beginning to gain some active movement in it during the treatment sessions .
12 As chancellor he inherited an economy with the skids under it after the Barber years .
13 He walked swiftly beside the trolley as they wheeled it towards the Theatre lifts , and Kath told him as rapidly as she could what they had established .
14 The structuration of the business class as a whole has , to a considerable extent , been determined by the hegemony [ dominance ] within it of the establishment families .
15 She is the perceptive observer — be it of the radiation victims in Nagasaki or the aged geisha dancing exquisitely well for her venerable patron .
16 O'Hara rode his motor-cycle to the Pier Head and parked it against the granite bollards at the entrance to the Albert Dock .
17 She was very fashionably dressed , in a morning gown of the latest sprigged muslin , the waist high , with a blue spencer over it against the spring chills .
18 One member of the committee , a local industrialist , served on it throughout the war years and was meticulous in sending a personal letter of apology for absence before each and every meeting .
19 But the servant returned with a wineskin , and at a signal poured a liquor from it into the horn vessels .
20 Well this is the area that you 'll have to do something about is the if you 're gon na knock it into the Winter Gardens this is the area that knocks into the Winter Gardens .
21 They 're saying is , it 'd be nice if you could take something that 's a holistic perception and fragment it into the component parts .
22 He 'd also rigged it into the security systems as a precaution and was thus already rigid with dread when Roirbak communicated with him .
23 Well the speeds it achieves wo n't actually take it into the air … but it takes it into the record books .
24 Then he did n't make it into the record books .
25 I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets .
26 Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron .
27 ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible .
28 She also cuts it with the kitchen scissors !
29 Touching down on the main wheels first , the Ercoupe twitched into line ; they even tried it with the rudder pedals locked , flying on elevator and aileron only , but found the feeling ‘ rather disconcerting ’ !
30 If Dr Shakell Qureshi and Professor Michael Tynan discover her artery is too narrow , they will attempt to widen it with the metal tubes which will allow the blood to flow more easily into her lungs .
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