Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 2 | It was no longer possible for casual thieves to take an animal for their own use , or to sell it for agricultural purposes in a village five or ten kilometres distant . |
| 3 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 4 | Since then the Edinburgh Zoo has seen upwards of 50 000 people using it for this purpose in a year . |
| 5 | She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married . |
| 6 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 7 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 8 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 9 | I 've got some bollocks on it about some girl in my class called Karen wanking or something and all sorts of other shit and like |
| 10 | Recently people have begun to contemplate it as possible fuel in muon catalysed fusion and it is from this that current interest derives . |
| 11 | When Christ , beaten and weak , is made to carry the cross , the long version presents it as one element in a series which together compose a " ruful " |
| 12 | Those who would wish to take it in parts please show those against taking it in parts this evening we will vote on it as one amendment in that case . |
| 13 | The only way we 're going to get anything changed in our lives is by fucking fighting for it as working-class people in solidarity , right ? |
| 14 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 15 | If sharing a toy , make sure you clean it between each use in warm soapy water , or use a condom as protection . |
| 16 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 17 | Even so , Faldo , with a 71 , still finished top European , overtaking Ian Woosnam , who had shared the lead after two rounds and was still sharing it after three holes in the third on Saturday when a storm interrupted play for three hours . |
| 18 | De La Rue 's sale of the Crosfield Electronics printing equipment business did not relieve it of other losses in advanced security equipment and in spite of the new cash surplus , the interim results are grisly . |
| 19 | De La Rue 's sale of the Crosfield Electronics printing equipment business did not relieve it of other losses in advanced security equipment and in spite of the new cash surplus , the interim results are grisly . |
| 20 | Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) . |
| 21 | Although it is couched in the inscrutable language of international political agreements , you may find it of some value in your dealings with the Government ! |
| 22 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 23 | The original Model X ( NR49V ) was known also as the Cirrus Derby Racer and Lowell Bayles flew it into second Place in the 1930 All-America Derby . |
| 24 | Thomas Cook himself , whose name was to become a by-word for organised tourism in the next twenty-five years , had begun his career arranging such outings and developed it into big business in 1851 . |
| 25 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 26 | They got ta do it with one hand in their pocket . |
| 27 | When the surface is completely free from all dust you can seal it with clear polyurethane in an egg-shell finish if you want a good gleam , or matt if you prefer . |
| 28 | This driver is clearly central to the performance of the 103/2 , handling as it does the bulk of the frequency range , though there was certainly no gamble involved in its incorporation into the Reference range since KEF had already utilised another version of it with notable success in the baby model , the 101/2 . |
| 29 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 30 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |