Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 2 | Then , in the next chapter , after elaborating further on the features of psychosis itself , we shall return to examine how explanations of it might also give an account of certain aspects of the creative process . |
| 3 | Some of it might even be , at least briefly , in the form of matter , since matter and energy are interchangeable . |
| 4 | Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true . |
| 5 | Some of it may also reside in the bending of bones . |
| 6 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |
| 7 | Discussion and debate may need ( as with the Humanities Curriculum Project ) packs of supporting data , and if paper is short some of it may well be put on overhead transparencies and projected when relevant . |
| 8 | As the question of his death date , and indeed the circumstances of his death , are intimately bound up with the vexed problem of the identity of his successor , further discussion of it may suitably be left to the following chapter . |
| 9 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 10 | My memory of it would probably be . |
| 11 | The trouble is I mean if , if it did , it came up and he wanted to sell it would of it would obviously decrease the value . |
| 12 | Whether or not this happened to any extent in Britain we can not know , but any hint of it would undoubtedly have started wild rumours , fired by imagination which always accompanies sexual matters . |
| 13 | If she did not return to the Lodge she might never experience such terror again , but the memory of it would never leave her . |
| 14 | Rain would therefore have to permeate rapidly through an artificial surface into the base , where most of it would quickly drain away . |
| 15 | A bird that thought so and decided to make a meal of it would quickly die . |
| 16 | Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe , because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now . |
| 17 | They were written during the thirties , but much of it would still be up to date — after all , I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly . |
| 18 | Its shape became clear , and I could then guess roughly how much of it must still be buried under the sand . |
| 19 | Our revival of it could well be seen as defiant ; that 's why we have already commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Aby Warburg 's death . |
| 20 | It will be evident that these united designs compete under considerable disadvantage with the single designs , and that unless a united design should be superior in both departments to all its single competitors , it could not receive a prize because one portion of it could hardly be executed without the other . |
| 21 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 22 | This information is mostly for the GM , but some of it can easily be fed to the PCs before an adventure . |
| 23 | The rainforest is a tightly knit ecosystem but one that is only vaguely understood ; which is why damage to any part of it can never be exactly limited . |
| 24 | You will know which pipe is frozen because the tap at the end of it will no longer be working . |
| 25 | Supporting this idea is the observation that if foreign DNA from any source is introduced into a cell , a small proportion of it will eventually integrate into the cell 's chromosomes . |
| 26 | Scotland will hold a public practice at Murrayfield today , though part of it will likely be in camera — when the forwards head indoors to work on the hydraulic scrummaging machine . |
| 27 | The abnormal can be left , for news of it will inevitably rise like a suppurating boil . |
| 28 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 29 | Although it is law , parts of it will only come into force when the Home Secretary issues the necessary regulations . |
| 30 | By the time Stefan gets his sweet all sorts of behaviour will have come and gone — some of it will almost certainly be undesirable . |