Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for Mum it had to be Tom or Englebert . |
| 2 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 3 | If the police were thinking about blackmail it would n't be long before they got to Barbara Porter . |
| 4 | It still ca n't handle halftones but for text it is more than adequate . |
| 5 | Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy . |
| 6 | Mean latent periods for malignant tumour detection after radiation exposure are estimated at about 25 years , although for leukaemia it is between 8 and 14 years . |
| 7 | The second reason why the ozone layer is important is because through absorption it controls the amount of ultraviolet ( UV-B ) or erythemal solar radiation reaching the ground . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , in America , the New FADS have signed to Mute/Electra through Play It Again Sam . |
| 9 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 10 | For instance it could be a good idea to introduce your free boilies at 12 mm or 15 mm and use hook baits of 18 mm , 20 mm or maybe even 22 mm . |
| 11 | In a cleaning kit for instance it is quite possible to provide one product in a squeeze pack , another in a powder shaker and a third in a spray bottle . |
| 12 | For instance it clears up a tiresome controversy over the level at which natural selection acts . |
| 13 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
| 14 | For instance it may be that , viewed at this point , the woman has a quality of cautious practicality and by comparison the man seems a reckless dreamer , which is hard to see as anything but a weakness . |
| 15 | So for instance it imagines gradually moving an unstable block ( such as B ) downwards , pivoting on the relevant point of support . |
| 16 | For instance it would enable broadcasters to offer interactive services — such as the ability for viewers to call up statistics while watching a baseball game . |
| 17 | If Microsoft is found to have a case to answer , the minimum possibility is that the company is forced to sign a consent decree under which it has to unbundle , and agree not to bundle in future — for instance it might have to dismantle Windows for Workgroups and sell the networking elements as a separate product ( similar networking code will be an integral part of standard Windows NT ) ; at worst , the company could be forced to split itself into two completely different companies , one for operating systems and languages , the other for applications . |
| 18 | For instance it is offering a number of parallel application development packages — Linda , Express and PVM — alongside the AIX Parallel Environment Software that the company has developed itself for the SP1 . |
| 19 | For instance it agreed to abolish the slave trade . |
| 20 | For instance it is unlikely that we will cross a road safely if we are not mildly anxious . |
| 21 | These factors may be grammatical ; for instance it is ungrammatical to put verbs in theme position in English , though not in Arabic or Spanish . |
| 22 | Where the high-bay warehouse is part of an overall local storage and distribution unit to service a manufacturing or processing division on the same site , or where for instance it is sited in the middle of a department store to supply the selling floors , the fundamental principle of ‘ containment ’ of the risk and isolation of the volume from the adjacent areas will be the paramount consideration . |
| 23 | For instance it was pretty clear that there were no unique memory molecules . |
| 24 | For instance it buys up stock which is nearing its redemption date , so as not to have to make large repayments over a short period of time . |
| 25 | Well you see now , say tea Say for instance it was a shilling . |
| 26 | For instance it might be predicted that aspects of situations which were highly inconsistent with a pre-existing schema would be better recognised than relatively consistent aspects , but less well recalled . |
| 27 | Well if for instance it 's approaching receivership |
| 28 | As for self-sacrifice it was mostly incredible . |
| 29 | As an extension of Acheson 's ideas about communism it was likewise impossible for Americans to think of the Chinese embracing communism of their own volition and rejecting the US in such a humiliating fashion . |
| 30 | For Codron it was very much a turning point . |