Example sentences of "it [coord] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earthquakes , especially the big ones , are caused when two tectonic plates — segments of the earth 's crust that float freely on the molten magma beneath — come into contact with one another and one plate bangs into another or rubs alongside it or dives under it . |
| 2 | If you stare at a Rottweiler it thinks you are challenging it and goes for you immediately , knocking you down and tearing your throat out . |
| 3 | Transferred to the realm of gender relations , this would describe the state of affairs in which a woman has influence over a man and manipulates his discourses , but is allowed this power only as long as she agrees not to flaunt it and remains in the position of silent partner with no autonomous voice . |
| 4 | She accepts it and copes with it , the way children do . |
| 5 | It has a peculiarly romantic ring about it and refers to ‘ special protection , opportunities and facilities to enable them to develop in a healthy and normal manner in freedom and dignity ’ , to ‘ special treatment , education and care ’ and ‘ love and understanding and an atmosphere of affection and security ’ . |
| 6 | Thus , although the geodesic with approaches the ‘ fold singularity ’ apparently at a finite distance from the curvature singularity in region IV , an arbitrarily close geodesic that is initially parallel to it in region II diverges from it and crosses into region IV before it reaches the hypersurface . |
| 7 | The pressure is seen as too burdensome for the black kid , who ‘ buckles under ’ it and withdraws into his enclave complaining about ‘ Babylon ’ and its inequalities but without doing anything about them . |
| 8 | Industry knows that such policies would be absolutely disastrous to it and knows from what source those policies would come , which is why its hostility to the Opposition 's policies is so severe . |
| 9 | He sprawls across it and shudders like his back 's broken , and there 's a crackling noise like sizzling fat . |
| 10 | However , it seems that such a provision can not be a contractual promise , and will only be effective if it gives rise to an estoppel ; it therefore will not exclude the implied term of fitness for purpose unless the seller believes it and relies on it ( Lowe v Lombank [ 1960 ] 1 All ER 611 ) . |
| 11 | I think that 's an extremely good point actually , because of course , when one thinks about it and looks at it , there are many many things which are happening in today 's world which are disasters . |
| 12 | She takes it and makes for the phone box . |
| 13 | Why would you want to take over responsibility for handling run-time errors ? when BBCBASIC(Z80) detects a run-time error , it reports it and RETURNS TO THE COMMAND MODE . |
| 14 | Off again to some distance from the grotto , the lights are small and water still , the giant eagle appears and asks , have you the sacrifice , no my Lord answers , so be it and disappears in steam . |
| 15 | Iain hates Gene Pitney so he stops it and puts on ‘ Everything I Own ’ again . |
| 16 | If she does see it and disagrees with it |
| 17 | If a failure occurs in one of the 16 on-line chips , the controller detects it and switches in the redundant chip . |
| 18 | The PLAYER gets to his feet and walks over to his barrel and kicks it and shouts into it . ) |
| 19 | The world of shadow is the condition of human knowledge , and imagination deals in the meanings inherent in it but points to the light beyond where it will no longer be of use : |
| 20 | Such an ideal does not stand isolated from the practices which strive towards it but interacts with those practices , helps to construct them , and is in turn constructed by them . |