Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they dismantled the Poor Law from outside , by removing from it needy groups by means of legislation on issues such as old-age pensions and national health insurance . |
| 2 | ‘ We call it bouncing stones across the water . ’ |
| 3 | Moffatt , whose long lay-off was due to a facial injury , made it eight wins in a row ( five inside the distance ) by forcing Dhalie into retirement at the end of the fourth round with a damaged shoulder . |
| 4 | From this secure position , it extends a long tube , its siphon , along the tunnel and into the open water to suck in a current that brings with it minute particles of food . |
| 5 | Indeed , it shares with it some elements of decoration , e.g. a band of wavecrest pattern around the central roundel . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | We also gave it top marks for looks . |
| 8 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 9 | LUCA CUMANI improved his impressive Brighton record when the strapping Declassified made it 22 winners from 40 runners at the track in five years for the Newmarket trainer . |
| 10 | ‘ He got it wrong Wigs by Clarkson as if it mattered . |
| 11 | It further calls for discussion within the trade union movement on this question , with a view to dispelling the myths that surround homosexuality . |
| 12 | Digitisation brings with it exciting possibilities for the archival scholar . |
| 13 | I 'll give you examples perhaps of none , none of these I must admit I , I do n't , I do n't think , they 're not my style I much more my page my training tend to have just two or three points on it rubber stamps on the side flipchart all this sort of stuff big question . |
| 14 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 15 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 16 | This contrast brings with it different theories of social action and how to study it . |
| 17 | Is it popular attitudes towards democracy which have changed so drastically ? |
| 18 | The Arts Council was thus the result of a political climate that favoured state intervention and support , with one of it principal exponents at the helm . |
| 19 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 20 | That 's it six sets of two . |
| 21 | and like six pound something when I , and six pound forty when I had Eran , so I thought if we call it six pounds for a Saturday , when you have Jordan I 'll give you three pound |
| 22 | It is not fair to say the City will only look at it six months at a time . ’ |
| 23 | Give it six months at least . |
| 24 | It 's not right they were out of it six months before then . |
| 25 | FARNELL Electronics has confounded the doubters and increased earnings per share yet again in the recessionary 12 months to February 2 , giving it 26 years of uninterrupted growth . |
| 26 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 27 | He explained that the British envisaged that the union , having at its apex the European Council consisting of heads of government , would have beneath it distinct pillars of co-operation , with the Treaty of Rome and intergovernmental pillars representing respectively foreign and security policy co-operation and actions against drugs and terrorism overseen by interior and justice ministers . |
| 28 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 29 | What sort of beauty is it these lads from the shanty town possess ? |
| 30 | SCOTLAND made it three wins on the trot in the Home International Indoor Championships in Swansea yesterday despite losing out in their final fixture with England , 106-113 . |