Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |
| 2 | " The river 's part of my manor , but of course it also belongs to the River Police . |
| 3 | That makes it strategically important that I report back to Earth Central , Defries thought , and of course it also makes it highly unlikely that I 'll survive to do so . |
| 4 | Given this revised definition , it becomes natural to talk about preserving and defending democracy rather than achieving it , for of course it already exists in such fortunate countries as Britain and the United States . |
| 5 | And of course it mainly works the other way , does n't it — I mean Hilda hating Viola . ’ |
| 6 | Of course it still has to sell the idea to management and our source thinks Austin is still 24 months from a product , but the notion could be IBM 's answer to Microsoft 's NT . |
| 7 | But I had a problem in that very often people wanted a double wardrobe moving and of course it then needed two men . |
| 8 | It 's a euphemism for dusting , but of course it never works out like that . |
| 9 | Of course it never happened , but he definitely wanted to do it . |
| 10 | After years of uncertainty it now appears that a new chapter is about to open in the life of Dunkirk Mills . |
| 11 | I I think it 's just words that briefly talking about that issue office states because I think in terms of management it just does not make any sense . |
| 12 | In terms of sound it hardly matters , because once you plug in live , the real sound is brought out in the house — you go both direct and to the amp ( racked Gallien-Krueger and Ampeg SVT heads through Hartke cabs in Gene 's case ) . |
| 13 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
| 14 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 15 | This attitude has provoked strong reactions from various gallery holders who have benefited by the system , some of whom accuse Mr Job de Ruiter , the chairman of the Arts Council , of wanting to dictate the taste of the public by forcing on it a type of art it simply does n't want . |
| 16 | In the case of machinery it often makes operators indifferent to the dangers they are involved with every working day . |
| 17 | These three teachers were struggling to survive in an inner-city school and could not give the evaluation project the kind of commitment it really deserved . |
| 18 | In terms of policy it thus became essential to try to weaken the English grip upon both the sea and the main rivers , such as the Oise , which flowed into the Seine , by seeking to detach the Burgundians from their English links . |
| 19 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |
| 20 | When rock comes to rest under the influence of gravity it just stays there . |
| 21 | In more than five years of operation it allegedly invested more than US$50,000,000 in cocaine trafficking , arms smuggling and the illegal export of Indian mummies from the northern Atacama desert region . |
| 22 | At this point , the family probably can not yet afford a high quality modern house , but for reasons of status it still decides to move into a sub-standard , ill-constructed house built with modern materials , a house that turns into an oven during the summer and generates demand for electrically-powered cooling devices . |
| 23 | At some level of expenditure it presumably becomes inequitable for a disabled person to expect public support for the more expensive domiciliary care if this means depriving someone else of care of any sort . |
| 24 | Oakeshott suggests that each mode of experience constitutes a self-contradiction since the aim it pursues contradicts the criterion of coherence it implicitly acknowledges . |
| 25 | Once the ground has lost its protective cover of vegetation it quickly turns to desert . |
| 26 | The theory is now in disrepute but in side paths of the groves of Academe it still finds plenty of support . |
| 27 | During the early 1970s , when the sort of thinking exemplified by Limits to Growth permeated official forecasts of imminent shortages of strategic commodities , the CIA toyed with the idea that ‘ The United States ’ near-monopoly position as a food exporter … could give [ it ] a measure of power it never had before . ’ |
| 28 | While scientific rationality can produce ‘ enlightenment ’ about nature it also alienates human beings through the social relations consequent upon the domination of nature . |
| 29 | You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two . |
| 30 | With hindsight it perhaps seems strange that one of the indisputably greatest figures in the whole of Western art devoted the better part of his life to sell-advancement , and to painting the King , his family , and their attendant dogs , dwarves and sycophants Certainly the irony of this , together with the fact that this inbred family of often considerable mental as well as physical fragility should have controlled the destiny of so vast an empire , is not lost on Gironella . |