Example sentences of "it [prep] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have finished your conversation , thank it for its help , and see a shaft of light come out of the sky and illuminate this aspect of your Shadow . |
| 2 | Marconi 's company went through a difficult period ; Marconi had to put all his own money into it for its survival . |
| 3 | A good little program , even if you only want it for its entertainment value . |
| 4 | The voluntary sector is a large employer of ACE schemes and now relies heavily on it for its funding . |
| 5 | She liked it for its peace , its sedateness , except , of course , on the days its Hippie Market turned it into a riot of colour and bustle , attracting holiday-makers from all over the island . |
| 6 | But there will also be those who will stay with it for its relish of damnation . |
| 7 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 8 | Wollongong , Palo Alto , California plans to use it in its open systems interconnection communications product line for the Digital Equipment Corp VAX , and Datability , Carlstadt , New Jersey plans to incorporate it for its communications server product line . |
| 9 | She liked it for its privacy and its proximity to Buckingham Palace . |
| 10 | He had examined it minutely — written on a sheet of white copy-paper — but there was nothing he could learn from it about its sender . |
| 11 | Although it missed the clarity of the session version , it was still strong enough to make number one in the independent charts and NME picked it as its single of the week . |
| 12 | Chernobyl was undoubtedly a setback for nuclear power , but it grows increasingly hard to see it as its death knell . |
| 13 | If you think of it as its sound equivalent , each radar emission can be thought of as a swooping wolf-whistle . |
| 14 | The LDP forced it through its committee stages in the House of Representatives — the Lower House of the Diet — on Nov. 27 , thereby causing a brawl to erupt amongst legislators angry over what they saw as a flouting of established procedure . |
| 15 | During the postwar period the idea of democracy also came to be expressed in new terms — differing profoundly from the restrictive meaning which Schumpeter , Weber and others had imparted to it through its association with the idea of citizenship . |
| 16 | Standard English today differs from local dialects not only in permitting the expression of complex relationships in familiar written forms , but also in the astonishing wealth of vocabulary which has accrued to it through its intellectual and imperial history . |
| 17 | At various intervals a shout would go up , a path would be cleared down the middle of the field and a horse would come galloping through the crowd , its bareback rider putting it through its paces . |
| 18 | From this you can assume that the A2 works connected up to pretty much anything and for this review that 's how I put it through its paces . |
| 19 | I wholly agree with the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook that it would be inappropriate to oppose the Bill on Second Reading , but , like the right hon. Gentleman , I intend to look closely at what happens to it during its passage through the House . |
| 20 | ’ An absentee also included anyone who was a Palestinian citizen and left his ordinary place of residence in Palestine for a place outside Palestine before 1 September 1948 , or for a place in Palestine held at the time by forces which sought to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel or which fought against it after its establishment . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is well established that in certain cases a trading corporation may bring a suit in respect of an imputation on its trading reputation , and I see no reason why a non-trading corporation should not have the same rights as respects imputations on the conduct by it of its activities . |
| 22 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |
| 23 | This is because a complete rose is not usually ready to be pressed in one go , so you must condition it first by stripping it of its leaves and thorns , cutting the stem and then crushing it with a hammer , before placing it in fairly deep water . |
| 24 | A humble self-sufficiency — hard-earned , often enough , like Larkin 's , and subject to sudden , spasmodic panics of loneliness or a fear of being thought insensitive — are the hallmark of many a post-war British hero , and no talk of anti-heroes can entirely rob it of its modicum of cautious praise . |
| 25 | In general , however , efforts to turn the creation of strategic vision into a manageable process , one that can be researched , taught , and adopted by managers , risk robbing it of its vitality . |
| 26 | If the Government decides to regulate a particular area of activity , whether because of public pressure following financial scandals or because of an EC directive , the profession is not going to be able either to make it go against public opinion or to relieve it of its responsibilities under the Treaty of Rome . |
| 27 | But a loss of control by a constitutional government may not immediately deprive it of its status , whereas an insurgent regime will require to establish control before it can exist as a government . |
| 28 | South Africa claimed that since it was a party to the dispute the Security Council had acted illegally in depriving it of its right of audience under United Nations Charter , Article 32 . |
| 29 | She watched the ants attack a small shrew , moving with one mind to overpower and strip it of its flesh . |
| 30 | It was a ‘ secret garden ’ at least to David Eccles who when Secretary of State for the second time , in 1962 , was determined ( against the better judgement of many of its guardians ) to strip it of its secrecy . |