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

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1 However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future .
2 You become aware of the ferret scraping at the rabbit , or of it killing the rabbit , or of the rabbit thumping in the hole .
3 Right sort of you could , I mean you could do the rounding up function if you like , which is what we were sort of point five or above it goes to the next int integer .
4 There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally .
5 And what I want to do today is to talk about Totem and Taboo rather more as it looks back , than as it looks forward , and not just to , to the past in Freud , but to the past in other respects , as you will see .
6 What could be more appropriate than for it to take on a great nineteenth-century house to complement the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century interiors at Ham and Osterley ?
7 And what better solution can there be for a decayed or threatened landscape park than for it to become a deer park once again ?
8 A swift turn of the wrist , a resulting click as the receptacle was locked , a pull on the lever and off it went to the central cash desk that usually had two cashiers .
9 He gave the ball a very sweet hit and off it went .
10 Click on ‘ Automatic ’ and off it goes .
11 The single high-density distribution disk slips into the drive , you type INSTALL , answer the usual ‘ is this where you want it ’ questions , and off it goes .
12 This would enable Hongkong Bank to avoid paying a packet for goodwill and for it to remain a Hongkong bank while Midland remained British .
13 to quicken and for it to slow .
14 The hon. Member for Dagenham wants not only to recreate a GLC but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow , West said , for it to be bigger and for it to control the police , which the old GLC never did .
15 It was open and through it came the sound of a cello .
16 The door , — like most of the building that originally stood around it ! — is mid-fifteenth-century and through it went members of the family whose name is now attached to it , even though the family palazzo was elsewhere .
17 He studied law before the war and during it worked with the resistance in Prague where he had been born .
18 This research proposal is designed to look at how this Inquiry fits into an evolutionary model of the development of the public inquiry as a democratic and political device for analysing information and ensuring that legal interests are safeguarded , what views the various participants have of the Inquiry before , during and after it occurs , and how the Inquiry as a process handles the arguments raised by its terms of reference , from the viewpoints of fairness , fullness , thoroughness and public legitimacy .
19 Oh , cracks me up , cos of it does n't
20 I had put on a show of contrition all day , and behind it had been incomprehension and fright .
21 Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills .
22 Between us and the stairs was the desk , and behind it sat a fiftyish thin man with a lined but peaceful face .
23 An enormous powder blue car , gleaming and new , its plentiful chromium winking in the sunlight , was drawn up in front of the house and against it leaned a man in a white suit .
24 It 's always in there , and er and I can remember walking around there and seeing the place where they make them , and her photograph 's outside and underneath it says , I am the lady I make them .
25 It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks .
26 The end of the War was at last in sight , and with it breaking of the electoral truce .
27 He had blurted it out , and with it had gone all his shyness ; he turned and looked into her face .
28 With the arrival of scientific methods in the twentieth century , we have been able to determine the essential nature of a healthy diet , and with it make dietary changes based on knowledge .
29 A second visionary experience was required to create the world of the archetypal stage , the skene , and with it make true drama possible .
30 When the distribution of revenue is seen to be equitable , one would expect to see this intransigence diminish and with it doubts about the commitment of the UK to the EC .
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