Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the colleges with which CNAA committees and visiting parties were dealing — including the new polytechnics — had traditions of autocratic management which the DES did a great deal to undermine with the notes for guidance it issued in connection with the proposed designation of polytechnics . |
| 2 | When the Data Protection Committee came to consider the case for legislation it had no doubt that the public sector presented the greater set of problems : the complex modern government bureaucracies at national and local level are great consumers of personal information about citizens — mostly to the citizens ' benefit , of course , but some of the possibilities of linkage , network-formation and hence secret profile-building about identifiable individuals seemed frightening . |
| 3 | Once the inner city is defined as a suitable case for treatment it becomes the logical social laboratory for any and all political , economic and social projects which can be presented as palliatives for the urban crisis . |
| 4 | But a spokesman said that while the authority had every sympathy for Richard it understood why the school had expelled him . |
| 5 | Oh I have n't been to the cinema for ages it seems . |
| 6 | One amusing thing was that after all my worry about dress it turned out I was the overdressed character for everyday he wore a different combination of tee shirt and jeans while I wore my neat school uniform . |
| 7 | Weight for weight it does not compare favourably with foods like cereals and nuts in fibre content , although it works out well when you take into account how much fibre you get for a modest number of calories . |
| 8 | Although times are tough for manufactures and dealers in the motor industry for farmers it means there are plenty of bargains about . |
| 9 | Multilabel office and all sorts of things it knows about . |
| 10 | For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time . |
| 11 | From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles . |
| 12 | But while the UK has become suddenly and significantly a net exporter of oil it has gradually lost its self-sufficiency in gas . |
| 13 | As a result of the centrifugal force of rotation it bulges at the equator and its polar radius ( 6378 km ) is 21 km shorter than its equatorial radius ( 6397 km ) ; thus the Earth is more accurately described as an oblate spheroid . |
| 14 | A period of decline was experienced by Chiswick House through the Crimean War also the Great War of 1914 to 1918 , and after a succession of occupants it became a private asylum for the mentally ill . |
| 15 | Having got to the outskirts of Bletchley it turned into a housing estate and ended up hitting the gates of Wellsmead School . |
| 16 | With a flailing of arms it drags in a huge breath ; it roars , then sucks , then roars again . |
| 17 | In a lengthy study of Britain it addressed in particular what it described as the " rather fashionable " debate on the imminence of change and decline in the Anglo-American relationship . |
| 18 | In the study of soils it has been argued ( Bridges , 1981 ) that soil geography aims to ‘ record and explain the development and distribution of soils on the surface of the earth ’ . |
| 19 | and these people are erm unpaid helpers to Ministers and Secretaries of State it says here . |
| 20 | In regard to smells resulting from the transportation of manure it seems to me that , irrespective of the methods employed , the necessary journeys would occur so infrequently as not to be unduly detrimental to the residential amenities which nearby residents in this rural community could reasonably be expected to enjoy . ’ |
| 21 | STEP 2 : Look under the appropriate size of glass/can/bottle column for the units of alcohol it contains . |
| 22 | Section 40 , like section 23 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 ( paragraph 16–26 above ) , deals with the situation where A commits an offence because of the fault of B. It enables B to be convicted where A has been guilty of conduct which either was an offence under the Consumer Protection Act or would have been one but for one of the statutory defences . |
| 23 | But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer . |
| 24 | In the United States of America it has long been held that a municipal authority can not sue in the tort of libel . |
| 25 | When one looks at this , it 's surprising what little guidance in the day-to-day practice of medicine it offers . |
| 26 | But I 'm going to give you a little piece of paper and on the piece of paper it 's got ten questions . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've brought a memorandum prepared from the original letter , itemizing every relevant piece of information it contained . ’ |
| 28 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 29 | But in the conversational recordings , the speed at times was often averaging 400 , and for fragments of utterance it approached 500 . |
| 30 | ‘ In the cold light of day it seems incredible that I toppled to my knees in so abject a manner . |