Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is supplied on a single disk and the Install program deletes the Easy Project data from it after translating it to a blank data disk in the second drive , leaving the A disk as systems disk . |
| 2 | Finch handed the photograph to Miller , who did no more than glance at it before passing it on to Golding and muttering : ‘ Could be anywhere . ’ |
| 3 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 4 | In the 1060s Pisa won a substantial fortune in a naval raid on Palermo , still in Muslim hands , and dedicated a handsome part of it to beautifying the famous religious quarter of the city — laying the foundations of cathedral and baptistry and other ecclesiastical buildings . |
| 5 | or part of it at leapt , should be united with this parish under one Kirk session , they associate with them as a member of Session . " |
| 6 | When we got the Hill Farm Subsidy and we were obliged to spend a certain part of it in putting something back in the soil , uncle liked Middleton Lime , so he spread a bit of that around along with basic slag , and cow manure , of course . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 8 | ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as a liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or |
| 9 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 10 | During field-work there was only one incident related to sexual abuse , and this was dealt with by policemen , and while they showed something of a blasé attitude towards it in feeling that the victim was ‘ hardly touched ’ and the offender ‘ did n't do anything anyway ’ ( FN 2/11/87 , pp. 5–6 ) , they pursued the case thoroughly . |
| 11 | The facts are that if you propose an idea , four times out of ten someone will take issue with it by pointing out snags and difficulties ( see Difficulty stating on page 52 ) . |
| 12 | Check that the desk is the right height and that you can use the equipment on it without straining . |
| 13 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 14 | My language awareness course is intended to obviate the need for it by enabling any teacher to learn alongside the pupils . |
| 15 | We sense there is more to it than that , but we have not known how to come to grips with it without giving ammunition to our opponents . |
| 16 | For one thing , bran is a bulky substance and it is n't easy to consume sufficient fibre from it without making your diet unpalatable . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , those who wish for lasting secure recovery will need to learn to consider feedback from any source and family members who truly desire longterm recovery for their loved ones will need first to understand their own " family disease " and get into recovery from it before learning the techniques of giving open and honest non-judgemental feedback to others . |
| 18 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 19 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 20 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |
| 21 | There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " . |
| 22 | He has come by the property without stealing it and has later assumed a right to it by keeping it . |
| 23 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 24 | three brass things , no it should n't be seen really , so I do n't know whether I 'm drawing attention to it by putting brass things |
| 25 | The idea here is similar to that used by Tanberg many years before , namely to fill a beaker with water and pass an electric current through it by connecting a battery to two terminals that are dipped into the liquid . |
| 26 | A promise is gratuitous unless the promisee is paying a price for it by giving something in retum . |
| 27 | Whatever the specialised interests of visitors to this region , they can gain a reasonable general orientation of it before starting their particular excursions , by taking the 3 hour boat trip from Luzern to Fluelen or vice versa . |
| 28 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 29 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 30 | Of course you want to see increased road safety , we 're all concerned about it as residents and parents but just throw in one million pounds at it without knowing the effectiveness of it , I think is irresponsible at this stage . |