Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , sucralose maintains better acid stability than aspartame , which means a longer shelf life for products that use it . |
| 2 | Very dan very difficult you 've got to take steps of blocking off drains and stopping it getting in the waterways and you , you succeed sometimes , you do n't success on other times and this is why er these accidents happen where all the fish and places die and people get contaminated , cattle get contaminated , all sorts of things . |
| 3 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 4 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 5 | Children , particularly our own grandchildren I discovered er had got money in the building societies I mean we give them money for presents and throw it into a building society , and I said what 's happening about your , your tax ? |
| 6 | Taking account of moves towards further devolved management to schools and proposed greater consultation between headteachers and boards it is likely that training will be all the more important in the future . |
| 7 | She looked just too guilty for words and knew it , and Felipe 's dark eyes flashed to the tray and the still unused tablet . |
| 8 | If the nest is attached by one side to a leaf , its support is clearly lop-sided , in which case the hummingbird may weave small particles of earth into a long extension of the nest , dangling beneath , to act as counterweights and level it . |
| 9 | Next morning I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction . |
| 10 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 11 | In his study of Wolverhampton , Jones ( 1969 , pp. 348–9 ) maintained that ‘ the parties have enabled individuals to devise a programme of policies and to implement it , and they have presented these programmes to the public in a dramatic and comprehensive way , enabling the public to judge a team of men and measures ; thus the accountability of government to the electorate has been strengthened ’ . |
| 12 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 13 | This is the creation of high quality artwork using material that may already exist in a number of forms and modifying it to suit the current need . |
| 14 | She found the chess-board under a pile of books and manoeuvred it out . |
| 15 | The Rattlesnake Round-up in Sweetwater , Texas , takes place every March to rid rangeland of snakes and make it safer for livestock . |
| 16 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 17 | The knowledge of how easy it would be to just reach out and take the Robe of Eyes and wear it and be able to see into other people s deepest thoughts flooded her mind , scaldingly . |
| 18 | Then , without previous movement or sound , only with a sudden gush of closed and graveyard air , the rotten surface above buckled and dimpled , lolling in sagging bubbles of turf , and sending its under-levels of soil cascading down on top of the ancient arc of bricks that upheld it . |
| 19 | Thus the liner is effectively sealed between three rows of bricks and brings it up above water level , preventing seepage . |
| 20 | Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid . |
| 21 | Even if access to data is restricted through the use of passwords when calling it up from the computer , it is often felt that data are not secure and confidentiality may be breached . |
| 22 | This suggestion , that stylistics should characterize comparatively the language or style of texts and leave it at that , would seem to constitute a sort of minimal claim for the relevance of linguistics to the study of literature . |
| 23 | In the dark office the human awoke , mooed for a while , and tried to jerk free of the cobweb of wires that held it down . |
| 24 | well in the end I expect there 'll be a lot of places that do it do n't you ? |
| 25 | ( Critics of the Keynesian approach often pointed an accusatory finger at this assumption , claiming that it removed wage theory from the hands of economists and handed it over to sociologists . |
| 26 | She 'd read something in the book of proverbs that summed it up perfectly . |
| 27 | They could hear the rasp of his breath as he tossed his head against the cloud of flies that haloed it . |
| 28 | The Bonn family financed the Bureau for a number of years and enabled it to recruit a small staff which laid the foundations for the development of the organisation into what it is to-day . |
| 29 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 30 | Such a split should clarify the distribution of costs and make it easier for competing train services to run on the same track . |