Example sentences of "[prep] it is [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can take many forms , but the idea is that part of it is strapped around your backside ; this prevents the hook from riding up and allows you to take all the weight of the rig by sitting . |
| 2 | Er and B , that surely a lot of it is covered in our training already . |
| 3 | But this is not to deny his achievement , which was fairly clearly founded on political , military , administrative and diplomatic skills of a high order , and his own sense of it is indicated by his adoption around this time of a crown modelled on that worn by the German emperors . |
| 4 | As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . |
| 5 | ’ It 's a sad reflection of society nowadays , ’ said the school 's headmaster ’ We blame children for a lot of things these days , but most of it is forced on them by the pressures of modern living . ’ |
| 6 | This is where force or the threat of it is used by someone to achieve his or her own ends . |
| 7 | Everybody who is connected with it is changed by it . |
| 8 | The lodge itself is still a feature in the landscape , possibly built in the style of the great house as those latticed panes would suggest ; but the family within it is to displace with its architecture the great houses of the Victorians , whether old or new . |
| 9 | No , the way to get at it is to work from whatever background has fired your imagination . |