Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] it [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Within a matter of hours it seemed the weather had changed .
2 Even in the city of bikes it seems the car has got the upper hand .
3 Even in the city of bikes it seems the car has got the upper hand .
4 By breaking the sequence of victories it damaged the aura of invincibility acquired by Clinton since Super Tuesday .
5 Iraq seems in no hurry to repay the billions of dollars it owes the Gulf Arabs for money received during the war ; and the Gulf Arabs seem in no hurry to ask .
6 With writers it takes the form of writing .
7 In essentials it embodied the proposals put forward by the Peoples Front Propaganda Committee and by G.D.H. Cole in previous years .
8 In some cases this included a continued emphasis on an elite group of master farmers ; in others it included the development of settlement schemes where a concentration of supporting services were supposed to create a group of commercial , if small-scale , farmers ; in others it included the development of large government-owned estates , managed by parastatal companies as described in Chapter 8 .
9 In some cases this included a continued emphasis on an elite group of master farmers ; in others it included the development of settlement schemes where a concentration of supporting services were supposed to create a group of commercial , if small-scale , farmers ; in others it included the development of large government-owned estates , managed by parastatal companies as described in Chapter 8 .
10 His face was flaky in some places , the texture of dried glue , while in others it bore the pin-prick traces of acne .
11 To help maintain private financial flows to LDCs it favoured the establishment of a multilateral investment insurance scheme .
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