Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her choice made , she went back for vegetables to accompany it , recklessly adding a demi-kilo of the huge firm-fleshed tomatoes , as well as nectarines , oranges and a punnet of strawberries to her collection . |
| 2 | You do n't have to be regular cyclist to enjoy a cycling holiday in Holland as the safe , segregated cycle lanes have special traffic lights and signposts for cyclists making it a relaxing and enjoyable pastime for people of all ages ; families , couples , or groups of friends . |
| 3 | We have made provision within Strathclyde 's budget for funds to enable it to undertake development of the A77 . |
| 4 | Some parents are wholly negative towards their children 's use of Creole , but some are mainly concerned that young children should not use Creole , and are more relaxed about teenagers speaking it . |
| 5 | Lyndall Sachs of the Belgrade office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said it was hoped that another convoy could be sent in as early as today . |
| 6 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
| 7 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 8 | The increasing impact of nuclear weapons upon military planning and the perceived importance of maintaining the integrity of a future theatre of operations made it necessary to standardise doctrine and training and , hence , provide a more integrated forum for addressing joint military requirements . |
| 9 | The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories . |
| 10 | Sometimes disagreement , in spite of attempts to conceal it , will become so public as to prejudice a party 's hopes of electoral success . |
| 11 | Naturally the quality of the objects is not entirely consistent ( some of the prints seem pretty standard , for example ) , but the sheer range of artists makes it an impressive resource . |
| 12 | And a male opponent admitted : ‘ A lot of blokes thought it was great ! ’ |
| 13 | The band of riders obeyed it sufficiently . |
| 14 | In the seventy-seven subsequent years that divide the publication of Sketches by Boz and the accession of Queen Victoria from the outbreak of the First World War , fictional houses are seen rather than sensed , until the burden of acquisition , despite attempts to redeem it , becomes a tyranny which ultimately destroys the Victorian notion of ‘ home ’ . |
| 15 | We shall hear more about this worldwide problem , despite attempts to suppress it . |
| 16 | The CC failed , despite attempts to revive it . |
| 17 | Additionally , a horse that enjoys eating a wider range of foodstuffs — alfalfa , oats , horse mixes , apples , carrots , and so on — provides us with a larger range of inducements to motivate it to do what we want as well as rewards for when it does do what we ask . |
| 18 | The spectrum of activities make it impossible to understand all the business processes and priorities . |
| 19 | The swift interactive response of the micro and its flexibility within a well-defined set of rules make it particularly effective in setting up game situations . |
| 20 | The other is about the absorption of individual action by the system of rules governing it . |
| 21 | It is an established fact that copyholders regularly sublet their tenements either whole or in part ; the manor of Rodley , Gloucs. , evolved a complex framework of rules to govern it . |
| 22 | At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales . |
| 23 | Just two isolated little genera of birds do it , and those two have nothing else in common with each other except that both live in caves . |
| 24 | But recent developments in the recording of all stages of investigations make it easier to follow their precise course . |
| 25 | Farmers were confident that if they sold to the Commission there would be no great rush of Germans to buy it , and the Commission could not sell the land to the Poles . |
| 26 | Sampling saves time , labour and , therefore , money and by reducing the numbers of cases involved it allows for a concentration of effort on high quality information about the smaller number of cases involved . |
| 27 | But he only had about a couple of hours to do it in — after I 'd rung from Hannover . |
| 28 | The Lotus , now quite a rare model , came into Gordon 's possession in 1981 and he spent thousands of hours restoring it to mint condition , despite it having done an estimated 200,000 miles . |
| 29 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |
| 30 | The capacity and speed of optoelectronics make it an ideal means for simplifying switching and routing with optical networking a possibility for perhaps 10 years time — a prospect that researchers from University College are currently co-researching with British Telecommunications Plc in Harlow . |