Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When young children have to be looked after it reduces the opportunities that parents have to take part in the social round . |
| 2 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 3 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 4 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Regular users of it wrap the edges round wooden batons , secured with a few tacks , leaving these to rest on the ground , and rolling it up on the batons when the season is over . |
| 6 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 7 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 8 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 9 | A long pole was fitted to the front of it to control the swaying . |
| 10 | In this case we square the whole key and take a centre part of it to allocate the records to buckets . |
| 11 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 12 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 13 | If we use the art of repetition and change , this small idea can then grow and help make all the music , or at least enough of it to generate a formal logic , a compelling emotional experience for those who listen . |
| 14 | The very ‘ solid ’ cabinet of the 103/4 is made largely of particle board but has an additional panel of computer-routed , grey-painted Medite applied on top of it to form a slightly proud baffle area . |
| 15 | There were men half-hidden by piled-up mountains of coloured balloons at some of the street corners , a relic , Ward said , of the magnificent feathered headdresses of the Aztecs , and with the stillness of evening the dust haze had gone , so that the huge square of the Zócalo had a brooding sense of peace , the cathedral 's twin towers still touched with the sunset 's warmth and the great mass of it dominating the presidential palace . |
| 16 | The literature on the structure and tectonic development of plate margins is vast , but unfortunately very little of it takes a specifically geomorphic perspective . |
| 17 | To appreciate Althusser 's work one must first of all understand why so much of it takes the form of an exposition and defence of Marx 's writings . |
| 18 | I had to study something of it to put the exhibition together . |
| 19 | much of it taking a shortcut to the city centre ( 'rat-running' ) . |
| 20 | It was a task that nagged at her , the mere thought of it causing a furrow to crease her normally smooth brow . |
| 21 | The sheer unfairness of it brought a flush of angry colour to her cheeks . |
| 22 | Spots of it stained the thighs of her robe . |
| 23 | The shock of it surprised the dog , when then bit the farmer ( modestly forbids me to mention where , but do give it some thought ) . |
| 24 | This is due to the use of a special microlouvre film , which only allows the person seated directly in front of it to see the information displayed on the computer 's monitor . |
| 25 | This is due to the use of a special microlouvre film , which only allows the person seated directly in front of it to see the information displayed on the computer 's monitor . |
| 26 | On the birth the relationship crystallised and out of it arose a duty on the defendant in relation to the child . |
| 27 | On the birth the relationship crystallised and out of it arose a duty on the defendant in relation to the child . |
| 28 | Thus Gandalf says at the start that the Ring will ‘ possess ’ and ‘ devour ’ any creature who uses it , while Elrond later goes further and says ‘ The very desire of it corrupts the heart ’ ( I , 281 ) . |
| 29 | His drawings of it convey the sense of someone singing at his work . |
| 30 | Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory involved an aether occupying all space , whereas Einstein 's radical recasting of it eliminated the aether . |