Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 32 | No longer did they have to go down the backstairs during the night , and into the yard and across it to where the three outdoor lavatories stood . |
| 33 | Down to the hall again , and across it to the front door . |
| 34 | Epilepsy does occur in some cases as a symptom of brain damage , but for it to be classified alongside psychosis , mental retardation and other disorders , without qualification , only serves to reinforce the stigma of insanity that health organisations worldwide are trying to eradicate . |
| 35 | Hard work , but worth it for the feeling that you might be helping producers to realise that there is a discerning market out there , and not one that reacts blindly to the word ‘ organic ’ . |
| 36 | It was difficult to draw well in such conditions , among the noise and confusion , standing in mud in the squalls of rain , but worth it for all that . |
| 37 | ‘ Bills must be a headache , ’ I sympathized , ‘ but worth it in the end . ’ |
| 38 | It 's expensive but worth it in the long run . |
| 39 | a col , because it is no more than I , 200 feet high , but from it in fact you can see a great distance to both north and south , over the low hills and wide , cultivated valleys in the direction of Orthez and Pau , or into the forests and middling mountains towards the frontier . |
| 40 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 41 | With regard to the former , Arnauld argued against Malebranche that ‘ objective presence ’ to a mind does not require ‘ local presence ’ , and that for something to be objectively present to a mind is not the same thing as for it to be causally active on it . |