Example sentences of "it we " in BNC.
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| 31 | When we received it we thought it was great , but after chewing on them for a while , mum got a bit worried as the pieces we were chewing off looked like hard plastic . |
| 32 | And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character . |
| 33 | In fact the power that is called God is beyond definition ; it is , as is stated of Brahman , ‘ neti , neti , — not this , not this ’ , and in our attempts to define it we are seeking to describe the indescribable . |
| 34 | On it we would have found the names of other distinguished old Summerhillians … unfortunately , Eric has been delayed at Stonehenge , and has not yet got to grips with the design . |
| 35 | In it we know ourselves to be rational agents detached from spontaneity , judging on objective grounds what will serve our ends . |
| 36 | The story is as much inspirational as sad , for with it we are made aware of the part we can play in our own Christmas story . |
| 37 | ‘ No matter what it takes and how long we have to investigate it we will find out who did it . ’ |
| 38 | It we do not , we shall be ruled by terrorism and fundamentalism of all kinds . ’ |
| 39 | If the order goes ahead we take material A out of stock and since we have no other use for it we will not replace it — no cash flow . |
| 40 | On it we normally get the full title and sub-title , the author 's name or pseudonym , his qualifications and , sometimes , the titles of other important or popular books he has written with , at the foot , the publisher 's imprint and , more often than not , the date . |
| 41 | Once we 're past it we can turn out to the open ocean . |
| 42 | However , so far as we are concerned the important constituent of the atmosphere is oxygen : without it we would never have come into existence . |
| 43 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 44 | Without knowing it we became a political organization in that we shared an experience of oppression , a sense of direction , and the will and the confidence to act . |
| 45 | As for heaven and hell , well , Joe , as I see it we make them both ourselves . ’ |
| 46 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 47 | Q So why is it we are seeing such chaos now ? |
| 48 | ‘ If that is the way they want it we will just talk to City . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ But ladies and gentlemen , ’ he went on , ‘ who is it we have to thank for this great blessing that has come upon us ? |
| 50 | Before he closed it we heard Mrs Scutt 's irate , ‘ He 's never going to tell her off , is he ? ’ |
| 51 | [ There is an ] exceptional case , in which , though the predicate is the name of a class , yet in predicating it we affirm nothing but resemblance , the class being founded not on resemblance in any given particular , but on general unanalysable resemblance . |
| 52 | Tim Garland , Freixenet 's UK Managing Director , said ‘ This new arrangement is most timely , for in it we recognise Nick 's considerable achievements of last year . |
| 53 | It was a policy with deep roots in the history of the monastic community at Canterbury , and to understand it we must first examine the development of this community , and then the ideal which it considered its chief adornment and obligation . |
| 54 | We still have doubts about the effects of GCSE — but if we did n't teach for it we would be handicapping unforgivably the pupils in our charge . |
| 55 | Not all meat and dairy products are produced intensively and Singer seems to allow that it we are confident that ours came from animals humanely bred and slaughtered then we are doing nothing wrong in eating it . |
| 56 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 57 | erm as many people here know and like them I have worked in a voluntary capacity and one way or another in this theatre for many years and we ca n't do without it we do n't want to see it close or any of those drastic things . |
| 58 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 59 | But we know when we have ‘ got it ’ , and when we have got it we believe it and can work to it . |
| 60 | New York ] is the best exposition of it we have . ’ |