Example sentences of "[prep] it [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of it 's vastly populated and punctuated by well defined compact small market towns and villages . |
| 2 | The trouble is that some of it 's still attached and so it 's going start erm bu butting again , growing . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , Hart is highly critical of Devlin 's identification of society with its shared morality and he further accuses Devlin of conceiving of morality as a ‘ seamless web ’ , so that those who deviate from one part of it are almost bound to deviate from the whole . |
| 4 | Though his list and its implications have been largely ignored by writers on the Muftilik , apart from a passing nod from Mustakimzade , his view was adopted directly , indirectly or independently by Hezarfen , d'Ohsson and Hammer , and echoes of it are occasionally found in other authors . |
| 5 | The meaning of ‘ privatisation ’ and arguments put forward in favour of it are then considered . |
| 6 | ‘ Though the mechanics of it are so arranged so that on every odd hour the water plays and the fountain dances in snatches of classical music . ’ |
| 7 | postmodernism 's self-reflexiveness can be defended , even on the grounds of responsibility upon which dismissals of it are usually based . |
| 8 | If , moreover , ‘ the senses reveal no necessities ’ ( to quote an old tag ) , then our mental grasp of it is not given by the senses . |
| 9 | Twelve kilometres to the north-east of it is somewhere better : Sauveterre-de-Béarn , an interesting old place sat up above the Gave d'Oloron . |
| 10 | We are a high-consumption society and we have got to conserve the national resource and make sure that every part of it is effectively used . |
| 11 | Much of it is intensively managed grassland carrying a heavy stocking of dairy cattle . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that much of it is badly executed — the uneven paving is a disgrace in a city full of fine Victorian craftsmanship — it seems to many meretricious and , above all , out of place . |
| 13 | Much of it is also written specifically for specialists , being virtually impenetrable to the uninitiated reader . |
| 14 | While much international tourism is undertaken to enjoy cultural attributes , much of it is also prompted by scenic , wildlife and marine features . |
| 15 | M most of it is just formalizing what we 're doing and formalizing the changes in the establishment |
| 16 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 17 | Much of this written work can be done alone , but some of it is best achieved in collaboration ; it might be that the purpose of the drama is to work together to produce documents , for example : The letters written by the sailors on the Mary Rose as they left port ( had they been able to write ) . |
| 18 | Much of it is n't recorded in great detail , so one is left to read between the lines about the activities that were involved . |
| 19 | If I said some of it is n't made from the words or the message some of it is made from the tone of your voice . |
| 20 | In this it is related to the heads of the Two Nudes painted a few months earlier , but as opposed to them , it is more completely mask-like , and every area or section of it is clearly defined and forms a self-contained unit . |
| 21 | The original stone-built block still survives , although much of it is rapidly decaying . |
| 22 | Instead of going directly to the academy 's institutes , much of it is now awarded to projects by committees representing science and industry . |
| 23 | Family Allowance , or Child Benefit as a modified version of it is now known , has not always had the unequivocal support of the entire women 's movement . |
| 24 | I I 've learnt the Pitman school but to a basic level and a long time ago and a lot of it is now forgotten . . |
| 25 | Anyway you then look through it with the solution in and you 'll find that if , for example , you started off with it completely dark you 'll find it 's then grey cos the plane of light 's been rotated , now it 's where there was no light getting through now some of it is actually getting through , cos it 's been rotated . |
| 26 | The geographical spread of the mining industry is hard to ascertain , for much of it is poorly recorded , but incidental references in both ecclesiastical and secular sources show the existence of mines in Yorkshire , Staffordshire and Wales as well as in the North . |
| 27 | The field is a specialised one and the study of it is still producing refinements of previous discoveries . |
| 28 | Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch . |
| 29 | Susan talks intently to Kurt , looking directly into his eyes , the gist of it being just call me if there 's anything you want , then she and Anton leave . |
| 30 | As with the action sample those carers who continued to express a clear preference for home care talked in terms of it being no bother to continue caring , or even if it was ‘ a bother ’ , home was the best place for the dementia sufferer , and he or she and the carer were ‘ coping ’ . |