Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of these queries , or some of it stems from the fact that we 're also conscious of the fact that we ca n't keep passing things to Gary when he 's only got one person |
| 2 | An entry in the charges register disclosed that it was subject to restrictive covenants imposed by a deed of 1883 but did not reveal what those covenants were , because on first registration neither the deed nor a copy or abstract of it had been produced . |
| 3 | It argues merely that whilst Parliament could pass such laws , it would be unlikely or unpurposeful for it to do so . |
| 4 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 5 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 6 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 7 | According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer . |
| 8 | The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek . |
| 9 | The diversity of material was due to the fact that much of it came courtesy of local mill-owners . |
| 10 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 11 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |
| 12 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 13 | I 'll I 'll , once all of it 's gone , I mean if you want it 's called . |
| 14 | If they can establish that literacy in itself constructs superior logical functions , then it will follow that those without it have inferior logical functions . |
| 15 | Not that any of it worries us . |
| 16 | It was much warmer than I thought and I had n't practised taking a drink while running , so most of it missed my mouth . |
| 17 | Once most of it has been removed , put the paint brush back in clean turps for about half an hour , and repeat . |
| 18 | The problem with sub-£10 champagne is that most of it does n't taste very good . |
| 19 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the shadow Chancellor recently visited the James Halstead group in my constituency — it employs more than 400 people and is successful in making good profits — he expressed satisfaction to the local media that most of the technology that he saw was British-made and that most of it had been made 20 miles from Bury ? |
| 20 | This leads to the inevitable question ‘ Where does it all go to ? ’ and the simple answer is that most of it goes to several firms specialising in BOB ( Buyer 's Own Brand : ie , supermarket brands etc . ) |
| 21 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 22 | It was assumed that most of it went to the Provisionals and a smaller amount to the Official IRA . |
| 23 | Following the opening of the Gloucester-Berkely canal in 1827 , large amounts of grain were transhipped at Gloucester and some of it sent via the Stroudwater Canal to his mills in the Stroud area . |
| 24 | And power which is generated there goes to heat and light the city of Niagara , and some of it goes to cook the dinners in the city of Toronto , and some of it heats the homes in the city of Buffalo . |
| 25 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 26 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 27 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 28 | The light from the torch hits a special reflective layer behind the retina , known as the tapetum , and some of it bounces back out again . |
| 29 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 30 | And some of it 's gone up alright , but he put a couple of strips up last night and it all bubbled and then he I heard him this morning shwooh ! |