Example sentences of "it in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |
| 2 | You think I should show it in the future years ? |
| 3 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |
| 4 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 5 | I ca n't stand it , I hear it in the early hours . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 7 | I adore it in the early mornings , when the sun is still behind the hill . |
| 8 | But facing up to conflicts and difficulties throughout marriage , be it in the early years or later , is the way of growth and strength . |
| 9 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |
| 10 | There is a copy here if Members want to browse through it in the small hours of morning . |
| 11 | Dann turned the gun in his hands , still staring at it in the passing flares of street lighting . |
| 12 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 13 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 14 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 15 | I find it in the unlikeliest places , many of which had not sold it for at least 25 years . |
| 16 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 17 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 18 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 19 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 20 | Shop till you drop among the world 's most madding crowd , or stay far from it in the fragrant forests of The Land Between |
| 21 | A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches . |
| 22 | Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year . |
| 23 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 24 | You can see it in the glazed looks on the faces of the crowd tonight — they 've never seen anything like it ! |
| 25 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 26 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 27 | This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future . |
| 28 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 29 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |