Example sentences of "it some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it some trick of the light ? |
| 2 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
| 3 | Indeed , it shares with it some elements of decoration , e.g. a band of wavecrest pattern around the central roundel . |
| 4 | Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy . |
| 5 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 6 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |
| 7 | Few managers admit that boredom is a threat to the job but equally few would deny that being part of a pilot scheme or of being part of a trial run of new development can carry with it some air of excitement . |
| 8 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
| 9 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 10 | This put it some way below soccer hooliganism , which 75 per cent thought was wrong , and the use of soft drugs such as cannabis ( 60 per cent ) . |
| 11 | To overcome it some look upon their own experience and try to offer its essential characteristics to others . |
| 12 | Was it some kind of ‘ leak ’ ? |
| 13 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 14 | Is it some aspect of your work or your life that is getting out of control ? |
| 15 | The inroad of foreign capital always means for it some loss of independence , and it has nothing to gain by agreement among competing Empires … |
| 16 | It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future . |
| 17 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 18 | All this gives it some importance in bringing the workforce to acceptance of the new work disciplines of the industrial revolution . |
| 19 | ‘ Is it some sort of insurance policy ? ’ |
| 20 | Is it some sort of extra-wise one , or something . ’ |
| 21 | Is it some sort of reference to your own noble persistence in trying to restore our marriage ? |
| 22 | Marriage , I assume , carries with it some sort of carte blanche for endless promiscuity — and a dispensation from the Pope . |
| 23 | Was it some sort of ruse or what ? |
| 24 | Is it some sort of or something ? |
| 25 | It 'll give it some form of protection which we have n't got round to doing the erm oh |
| 26 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 27 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |