Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Men spoke of that as if it was a heroic thing , but it was Thorkel Fóstri , he found , who had done the actual killing , and his father would n't speak about it at all .
2 We see it in its most obvious form in the interactions between species when one species manages to control the behaviour of another as if it were a puppet .
3 Sales promotion is typical of this in that it need not cost a lot of money and its success can be clearly evaluated in terms of turnover and profit objectives . ’
4 The entire text and formatting of one document can be inserted into another as if it were a block of text being inserted from elsewhere in the same document ( see Task 12 ) .
5 The concept of referential rigidity in the sense in which it is used in the above theory , on the other hand , goes beyond this in that it already presupposes the idea of " per se " existence .
6 If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window .
7 And in fact that showed no relief to the A sixty one at all in that it was quicker for traffic to actually pass er through on the A sixty one going to the to the traffic model and the all the assumptions built into it , er than it was to use a southern bypass er out to the inner northern route and then back to the A sixty one south of Killinghall .
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