Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iii ) In the above definition of addition it seems that the + sign which is being defined ( that is , the one between the brackets ) is being defined in terms of itself ! |
| 2 | Of course it came and went , but he found the colleens were not only beautiful , but also good , and good at singing , though they were very shy on stage . |
| 3 | And of course it helps if you know where your target is going . |
| 4 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 5 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 6 | Of course it matters if people are deliberately robbed of the means of judgment by suppression of facts which , in any other situation , would be regarded as necessary to make sense of what had taken place . |
| 7 | Students do n't automatically proceed to this — it depends on the talent of the individual concerned , and of course it means that an extra year 's funds have to be found . |
| 8 | In this discussion , I will confine myself to discussing examples of sexism from the English language , though of course it exists and has been analysed in other languages too . |
| 9 | The RYA has a list of schools it recognises as fulfilling its requirements and it may be worth contacting them . |
| 10 | As late as the end of February it looked as though this was what they would have to do , and then one evening Ernest returned from a visit to Ilkley flushed with excitement . |
| 11 | In the early days of July it seemed that the president 's plan could not fail : the leaders of every mainstream party joined the ‘ Yes ’ campaign , leaving opposition in the hands of an unholy alliance between the Fascists and Communists . |
| 12 | In the case of exercise it appears that the body becomes addicted to the endorphins it produces to ameliorate the pain and stress . |
| 13 | This village is noted for the amount of sun it receives and for its long pebble beach . |
| 14 | Thus nicotine makes the heart work harder , carbon monoxide reduces the supply of oxygen it needs while obstruction to the coronary arteries also occurs . |
| 15 | The government in turn accused the FMLN of compiling a dishonest inventory of the number of weapons it held and of having staged illegal land occupations after the signing of the peace treaty in order to boost its land tenure claims . |
| 16 | Even with the drama of Munich and the prospect of war it seemed as though Alec Reid had not found time for the outside world . |
| 17 | ‘ For the next couple of weeks it looks as though we 'll be living together . |
| 18 | You have no idea what a surge of adrenalin it caused when our crowd burst into voice like that , then gave such a huge cheer when a great Craig Chalmers diagonal found touch ten metres out . |
| 19 | What time of day it rises and sets in the sky depends on the relative erm placing in the in the heavens of the earth and moon and sun . |
| 20 | Well , with a membership of 32,000 and an unemployment level of 70% it follows that there are many members who get little or no work within the profession . |
| 21 | By the end of August it seemed that the revolt was over . |
| 22 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 23 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |
| 24 | The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s ; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier , equally artificial and isolated one . |
| 25 | At the international level of analysis it seems that the elderly in Britain fare much worse than their European colleagues . |
| 26 | Citalia prices itself on the unrivalled choice of accommodation it offers and this year the range is even further expanded with the addition of 60 new hotels . |
| 27 | Before the start of each year , the government is to assess the amount of expenditure it considers that each authority will require in order to provide a standard level of services . |
| 28 | Manpower told us that its staff are attracted to it and stay with it because of the level of such fringe benefits and the level of pay it offers and not because they are given contracts which confirm them as having dependent employee Status . |
| 29 | It will be recalled that the proceedings had been adjourned from June to August , and about that time of year it appears that the first appellant was offered employment in Italy . |
| 30 | Unravelling this startling turn of events it transpired that due to the vagaries of the recording mechanism of answering machines my original message had sounded like ‘ died ’ not ‘ resigned ’ . |