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

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1 Keen to integrate the building into everyday life , he has made a diagonal route through it to encourage its use as a short-cut , and has redesigned the square outside , down to recreating the original pattern of Roman paving .
2 The liability of the agent may be the same in both cases , but the reasons for it differ in detail .
3 The reasons for it remain to be fully understood but it will certainly reopen the debate about this aspect of dependency — chosen or enforced ?
4 those necessarily coming into effect before being laid ( e.g. , where publicity would nullify their effect ) if due notice of the fact and the reasons for it has not been given to the Speaker , ;
5 That 's a very good question , there 's a number of reasons for it happening , erm it might be that the groove , the , the socket bit is very shallow , like a shallow tea cup and the hip , the leg bone does n't stay in it properly , does that make sense to you ?
6 Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term .
7 France , which in late November had sent 300 troops to neighbouring Benin , refused to intervene , despite calls from other west African states for it to do so .
8 The convention requires ratifications by sixty states for it to enter into force .
9 Some European legislation , e.g. directives , requires further legislative or administrative action by the authorities of member states for it to become effective .
10 The Iranian government had given permission for it to land , the first time that landing rights had been given to US government aircraft in Iran since the revolution of 1979 .
11 Whether school RE reflects the obvious case for it depends upon the openness with which it is approached and the style of teaching adopted .
12 He has persuaded the new Armed Forces minister , Jeremy Hanley , to see a delegation next week to hear Chester 's case for it to have the new centralised pay and personnel centre .
13 If the time is to be extended , then the case for it has to be made again , and to take changed circumstances into account .
14 Or damaged goods can , you know , put the foot through it to get the insurance cover on what we pay and we 're liable .
15 Egypt protested at FIFA 's original date of 28 March as it conflicted with a religious festival .
16 There is no provision for it to order a payment on account of costs .
17 We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take .
18 This was a shrewd move on his part for it meant that he not only had the blessing , and guidance , of the College , but also avoided their censure .
19 Despite this , BCAR have an Auster V operational from Old Sarum airfield , Wilts , with plans for it to visit the D-Day beaches in 1994 during the 50th anniversary celebrations .
20 Despite the superficial stupidity of the action , it must have some special advantage in at least enough cases for it to have been the subject of natural selection .
21 Maybe this song will catch on , but I think Deano needs to buck up a bit for it to get sung some more .
22 I made a tiny human skeleton with the bones of the dead fish and distributed a little ketchup about it to make it more realistic .
23 Kong and Kosko write that the learning algorithm for it did not always converge , and the resulting system did not always back the truck up smoothly .
24 If you 've got a , if you 're linked to a big file and you got a lot of linking formulae , you can wait hours for it to finish .
25 Instead of brushing your hair after setting which can cause splitting , gently run your fingers through it to create tousled waves .
26 And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1
27 Enthusiasm for it tends to wane during economic recessions .
28 ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function .
29 Somehow the salmonella knows it is not E. coli even though it would not require many mutations for it to become E. coli , or the reverse .
30 So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’
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