Example sentences of "it [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the desirable size of a library 's stock , the practical starting point for this kind of decision must be the size of the library building itself , and other factors are subordinated to it except on the rare occasions that new libraries are planned . |
| 2 | Minimizing — " Our area may have a problem but I 've never seen it except for the pushers hanging about that dreadful housing estate " . |
| 3 | The opening of a poem is obviously important because there is no previous discourse through which to interpret it except for the title , but this is not precise enough to enable us to assign the proper indexical meaning to the deictic elements and terms . |
| 4 | If you 've signed a contract you have to fulfil it except in the most desperate circumstances . |
| 5 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 6 | The only one he knew that well was Rosie , who had cousins in it , brothers maybe , although she never talked of it except in the most general terms . |
| 7 | 13–1–1877 Christmas passed off here very quietly , little notice being taken of it except by the few English residents amongst us . |
| 8 | One may deal briefly with Molla Arab 's supposed first period of office as Mufti , simply saying that there appears to be no more evidence for it than for the rest of Katib Celebi 's construction of the facts concerning the history of the office in the early years , which is not , however , to say that the statement ( or the construction , for that matter ) may be dismissed entirely ( cf. below , n. 166 , for example ) . |
| 9 | More people support angling and less people are strongly opposed to it than to the hunting of deer , foxes , hares and other mammals . |
| 10 | The papacy 's reputation for venality may be more closely related to the difficulties of collecting what was due to it than to the actual amounts of money coming in . |
| 11 | ‘ If you have this passion for pointing things out to people there could be no finer way of gratifying it than from the pulpit . ’ |
| 12 | To take stock , to recharge his batteries , and there is no place on earth he would rather do it than in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 13 | Where better to locate it than in the mind ? |
| 14 | When her mother is convalescing , the novelty of spending her days in a dressing-room appeals to Jane Austen : ‘ I always feel so much more elegant in it than in the parlour . |
| 15 | Workers had rallied enthusiastically to the Soviet , and soldiers in the capital also seemed to have more faith in it than in the Duma leaders . |
| 16 | These differences are related to the fact that the female pelvis is specially adapted for childbirth , with the result that there is more accommodation within it than in the male , while the relative depth is less . |
| 17 | How better to inculcate it than in the young ? " |
| 18 | ‘ But I 've told Leeds I would prefer delaying it until after the World Cup final , especially with the Aussies playing three warm-up games in England . ’ |
| 19 | No , I am sorry but I am not taking it until after the statement . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll leave it until after the wedding . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm surprised to have broken the record because I did n't push it until near the end . ’ |
| 22 | or abilities and build on it cos at the moment everybody 's re-inventing the wheel and you 're making a lot of work in my opinion . |
| 23 | I mean that 's all it , as I say , I do n't know why I did n't think of it cos in the she well I do know why I did n't think of |
| 24 | Even people with adequate heating may not use it because of the cost . |
| 25 | It does n't have pockets but I liked it because of the red buttons . ’ |
| 26 | He had planned to make this tour in January , but postponed it because of the Gulf war . |
| 27 | Was it because of the commitment of both Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain to the process of appeasement ? |
| 28 | ‘ We hit the mark , ’ said Conner 's tactician , Tom Whidden , ‘ but we hit it because of the other boat . ’ |
| 29 | He explained that ‘ As far as laboratory chemists are concerned there are just a few specific uses [ for tetra ] — they have tended to avoid it because of the toxicity ’ . |
| 30 | They still have the money , reckons Ray , but are sitting on it because of the recession . |