Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 2 | This was not a problem for HARPY since it represented and recognised complete utterances . |
| 3 | An incomplete or sloppy check carried out on the canopy can be lethal , because if it comes off it is a matter of luck whether it hits or misses the tail . |
| 4 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 5 | Like a chariot , the Pump Wagon causes a great deal of damage as it charges but the effect is even more extreme due to the destructive power of the crunching roller at the front . |
| 6 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 7 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 8 | That 's right , the , the , the id rewards the ego as it were with a feeling of pleasure when it 's when it 's met its demand . |
| 9 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 10 | The EC gets irritated at the mention of fraud because it fears that it weakens the Commission 's hand in GATT talks . |
| 11 | We 've got to consider the situation of some form of flexibility and it presupposes that if you have a policy in which the settlements are drawn and I suppose I I think they will be tightly drawn , development yes is allocated in accordance with the structure plan . |
| 12 | The official compilation was of moment because it ensured that certain general claims of the papacy , and the specific reasons for these claims , were not lost sight of in the later history of the papacy . |
| 13 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've had my share of fame but it comes and goes , ’ he says reflecting on his career from quiz show host to stand up comic . |
| 15 | Being a writer is in itself a type of contradiction because it means that you are both an actor , a participant in the world and also an observer , an interpreter , a maker of meaning . |
| 16 | It is obvious that a pretty problem arises when the test of domicile refers the English courts to the law of a country which applies the test of citizenship and it happens that the citizenship of the person in question was British . |
| 17 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 18 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 19 | It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past . |
| 20 | The census of 1930 revealed the the state of affairs when it showed that more than twenty-two per cent of the population were ethnic and linguistic Germans . |
| 21 | Even when you see a stage performance of hypnotism and it seems as though the ‘ unwilling ’ subjects are being made to act against their will , that is not really the case . |
| 22 | This was a smart fit of Rhyming if it had but held out ; I see you have your Poetical Concordance in your head pretty ready . |
| 23 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 24 | The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 25 | The latter result confirms our previous finding ( 12 ) that TFIIA is required for efficient expression of U6-RNA and it shows that its function can be substituted in a HeLa transcription system by the recombinant yeast protein . |
| 26 | ICI 's PLASTICS BUSINESS IS VERY clear about the sort of materials that it makes and sells . |
| 27 | It 's also a fact of life that it hurts and if anybody says it does n't , I do n't believe them . |
| 28 | Angles , Saxons and Jutes gradually colonised parts of Britain and it seems that the Saxons , at least in East Anglia , Kent and Hampshire , helped to maintain the general improvement of British cattle which had been initiated by the Romans . |
| 29 | This allows for a far greater sophistication of analysis because it recognises that the state and the policies it pursues may well be a result of internal conflicts within the state or due to conflicts between fractions of the capitalist class or from struggle by classes opposed to capitalism . |
| 30 | And so is that instant of anticipation when it seems that two bodies must collide , brutally , and one is helpless to stop it . |