Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's O.K. , the firm pays for my taxi , ’ I babbled , holding it out to him between trembling fingers as if it were a dead insect . |
| 2 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 3 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 4 | A debate is in progress among scholars in the arts and humanities about whether it would be right to establish a humanities research council or a humanities , economic and social research council , or to continue with no research council at all . |
| 5 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 6 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The pre-teen Critics ' Forum in Row H demolished John Napier 's whimsical island of snow-capped peaks as if it were papier mache being assaulted by a blowtorch . |
| 9 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 10 | The Gas , Water and Electricity Companies all had stands as if it were an exhibition . |
| 11 | However , this ad hoc procedure has not been without its critics , largely because of doubts about whether it is possible to perform the exercise with sufficient precision to arrive at a clear-cut evaluation . |
| 12 | And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter ! |
| 13 | His dark hair was thinning on top , but he had bushy side whiskers as if it had all slipped downwards , and his chin was a dimpled mound seeming to support an ever-smiling mouth . |
| 14 | with System Ten has announced a family of control servers which will enable us to control this network of servers and clients as if it was a single machine . |
| 15 | But what would happen to the reformist 's theory if astronaut too were used by English speakers as if it were masculine , in spite of the fact it has no surface gender marking ? |
| 16 | Russell caught the look with a shiver of panic in his eyes as if it were a wet glass that had slipped out of his hand . |
| 17 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 18 | Let your head float upwards from your shoulders as if it was being lifted from above . |
| 19 | It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . |
| 20 | Once the income which is the property of the trust deed is to be deemed the income of Mr Astor ( that is , is to be treated for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts in all respects as if it were the property of Mr Astor ) , it automatically becomes impossible for the purposes of those Acts to say that he receives anything which springs from a right of action against the trustee in respect of his income . |
| 21 | It sounds convincing but , as I have already noted , most people who know a particular species well quickly develop a good intuitive sense from an animal 's bodily and facial postures of whether it is likely to attack or escape . |
| 22 | ‘ Some men bring their kids in and it 's like a trip down memory lane they look at the smoke bombs or whoopee cushions . |
| 23 | The wheelchair has both brakes on once it is in position . |
| 24 | The Thames was flowing full and furious , the water greedily lapping their feet as if it would like to catch them and drag them under its swollen black surface . |
| 25 | But many kinds of bacteria in nature form elaborate colonies , often quite visible to the naked eye , in which different individuals perform different functions , so that the whole colony functions as if it were a single organism . |
| 26 | It goes round corners as if it 's on rails . ’ |
| 27 | Wearing a baggy green cap and showing not the slightest tension , Latif went for his strokes as if it were a charity match . |
| 28 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 29 | that is the effects , I mean they will still give grant , but indirectly through the revenues for and it will be spared but , for a number of years , you ca n't be absolutely precise about how long . |
| 30 | Here 's a crusty roll — must n't show my ignorance and cut it with a knife , have to tear it to pieces as if it was my worst enemy . |