Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 2 | Further , it is assumed that units of consumers ' and producers ' surplus can be added and subtracted , i.e. a unit of surplus represents the same quantity of benefit irrespective of whether it accrues to the buyer or seller . |
| 3 | This highly characteristic Fifties attitude makes Souza 's work look as if it belongs to a time rather than a place . |
| 4 | ‘ Such luxurious hair , a face that looks as if it belongs to an angel … but of course , ’ he murmured , ‘ you kiss like an expert . ’ |
| 5 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 6 | Howard Barker is described in the programme as a playwright ‘ known for his robust stance ’ — feet apart , biceps raised ? — ‘ against the tide of TV obsessed populist drama , ’ but the dialogue in A Hard Heart sounds as if it came from the violet-ink-filled pen of Oscar Wilde . |
| 7 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 8 | The window looked as if it belonged to a toilet . |
| 9 | So that it looked as if it belonged to the house . |
| 10 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |
| 11 | HOWEVER MUCH THE hotel maid sprinkled her lemon scouring powder , the salle de bains ( so designated by a chipped blue-and-white oval enamel plaque ) still smelled of stagnant drains , as if it functioned as an extension of the narrow street outside , where a section of the gutter exuded a steady reek of staleness , sweetish-sour , and not entirely unpleasant to Miranda . |
| 12 | This type of noise is often from a diff and travels down the tubular propshaft to sound as if it comes from the gearbox and gets louder as the roadspeed increases . |
| 13 | A conventional computer is turned into a ‘ thinking machine ’ by programming it to behave as if it consisted of a collection of brain cells — neurons — which will respond to a stimulus . |
| 14 | The fact is , however , that some of the behaviour of electromagnetic radiation is best explained as if it were a stream of photons ; and some of the properties are best explained as if it consisted of a series of waves . |
| 15 | The shock seemed to travel through the entire tree , as if that drop , that weight , that terrible dry snap became a tremor in the tap root , as if it bled into the sap . |
| 16 | and er it was n't bad , the snow was n't very good to start with but it snowed on the Thursday and then we , you know , we skied quite a bit after that , but poor girl she got sciatica on the Wednesday |
| 17 | The meaning of a typical sentence in a natural language is complex in that it results from the combination of meanings which are in some sense simpler . |
| 18 | The above form is essentially objective , in that it relates to the objects of local government , e.g. education , health , highways , etc . |
| 19 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 20 | The regionalist novel represented a kind of literary discovery of America , in that it revealed to an urban public the conditions of life in the remote , underdeveloped areas of the continent 's interior : the plains ; the jungle ; the Andes . |
| 21 | Poverty compelled a return to advertising in the early 1940s but the work of this period is essentially derivative in that it borrows from the artist 's own paintings . |
| 22 | In contrast to more conventional strategies for innovation , especially found in America , organization development is holistic or systemic in that it concentrates on the organization more than on the isolated individual or practice . |
| 23 | Their anthology , like Grigson 's , is valuable in that it steps outside the ordinary canon of eighteenth century verse to recover poets whose works bear consideration . |
| 24 | That which restructures for labour is local , in that it arises from a desire to tackle local problems with locally based solutions to benefit local people . |
| 25 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |
| 26 | He alleged that the statute in question was invalid in that it conflicted with a fundamental principle of natural law , the right of free speech . |
| 27 | Its revolutionariness is , however , only incidentally political : in that it evolved outside the universities in marginal academic institutions , and in that its development during the 1960s reached a kind of peak in the years 1967 — 8 , thus coinciding with the événements of 1968 . |
| 28 | But there was another idea behind it , surprising in that it stemmed from the pragmatic Roman mind : it was actually thought that the veterans would become model citizens whom the newly conquered barbarians could observe and emulate . |
| 29 | In some ways it is similar to second language acquisition , but it appears to be different in that it starts from the natively acquired dialect as a base . |
| 30 | The CSA 1985 , which is by far the most important piece of legislation , in that it lies at the heart of anti-insider dealing regulation in the UK , outlines the substantive elements of insider dealing offences . |