Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing unusual about MPs getting carried away during debates on crime and violence , however , or for the Speaker to find it necessary to call for ‘ Order ! ’ against ‘ shouts of sadistic enthusiasm ’ when whipping was on the agenda . |
| 2 | This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out . |
| 3 | Different sized crabs utilise different sized shells , and as a crab grows it must change shells regularly to accommodate its larger body . |
| 4 | Slowly she drained her glass and for a moment held it in front of her , staring at and smoothing the condensation away with her thumb . |
| 5 | The chief inspector listened to his breathing and for a moment found it difficult to separate it from her own rasping pant . |
| 6 | Hopkins had told McGrath of the plans for It and for the Scot to edit it . |
| 7 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 8 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 9 | Picasso 's dismissal of traditional perspective had been the result of his interest in investigating the nature of solid form and of a desire to express it in a new , more thorough and comprehensive , pictorial way . |
| 10 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 11 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 12 | Those involved in research into the drug and with the women taking it are mainly enthusiastic . |
| 13 | I favour a 1in roughing gouge for this operation , kept well sharpened and with the bevel rubbing it is safe , fast and very little sanding is required : you also have about four times the cutting edge available compared to a half inch bowl gouge , more time between re-grinds . |
| 14 | It found " substantial flaws " in Gorbachev 's decree of Jan. 29 and in the regulations to enforce it . |
| 15 | Most of the issues and problems involved in the definition of democracy and in the struggle to achieve it are already clear in the experience of Greek democracy . |
| 16 | However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules . |
| 17 | In symbolic representation the tendency ‘ indicates an object or a state of affairs as something else ’ ( Habermas 1974 : 153 ) and in the labour process it involves a ‘ subjection to the causality of nature ’ ( Habermas 1974 : 154 ) . |
| 18 | My mother had lived my life until half a year ago when I had so briefly lived my own and in the process destroyed it . |
| 19 | Antoine Bloye not only clarifies the meaning of Antoine 's life and in the process immortalises it in a negative exemplary narrative . |
| 20 | I did not wipe the offending word off the blackboard , but as I was packing up my books and papers at the end of the class , a girl got up and without a word erased it , to a scattering of applause . |
| 21 | Your use of the quote within the letter and on the envelope trivialises it too . |
| 22 | Again , there are cues both internal to the maze and on the walls surrounding it , and the maze can be rotated relative to these external cues . |
| 23 | Leave cake to cool in the basin , then run a palette knife around the edge and down the side to loosen it . |
| 24 | The book is quite explicit , and at no point does it describe practices as ‘ right ’ or ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 25 | The 7 kilometre walkway has a good cycling surface and at no point does it cross the road . |
| 26 | The disparate perspectives of holism and individualism can best be appreciated by looking once again at individualism , and at the intuitions sustaining it . |
| 27 | But for the women involved it was also a kind of victory . |
| 28 | I use the word not in its snobbish sense , but as a scientist uses it . |
| 29 | In cotton weaving rates in 1808 had fallen so low that weavers were reported to be working upwards of fifteen hours , even to twenty , but as an employer remarked it was an impossible situation to sustain and a man would not choose to work eighteen hours if he could live from the labour of twelve . |
| 30 | In the November 1982 election the percentage of candidates having surname initials in the first four letters of the alphabet was surprisingly high : 32.9 , but of the candidates elected it was higher still : 38.6 . |