Example sentences of "it the [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 2 | Well do it , do it the way on your fingers . |
| 3 | You could have called it the year of their persecution : |
| 4 | ‘ Is it the anniversary of his death ? ’ |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 6 | UN Special Representative , Gunnar Jarring , and the US Secretary of State , William Rogers , both made it the foundation of their peace efforts before their failure led to the October 1973 war . |
| 7 | The big day arrives , the sun shines , the interest of the agents in our new protection contracts is enough to ensure a full house — or is it the choice of our unusual venue ? |
| 8 | He who shall find his field , or his vineyard , or his garden , desert , let him incontinently enter thereon ; and he who shall find his husbanded , let him pay him that hath cultivated it the cost of his labour , and of the seed which he hath sown therein , and remain with his heritage , according to the law of the Moors . |
| 9 | The sap in their bodies would dry , and with it the intelligence in their strange-shaped heads . |
| 10 | The librarians in the academic sector are particularly aware that students have few library and information needs and problems it the outset of their academic careers , but are mindful nevertheless that they may not have easy access to the students ( especially in the polytechnics and the universities ) until a much later stage of their courses , if at all . |
| 11 | She gave it the liquorice of her mouth it began to thrive |
| 12 | ‘ Is it the name of your company ? ’ |
| 13 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 14 | But if it 's done as a way of accelerating the child 's development , in order , as it were , to give it the edge over its peers , that does n't seem to me to suggest a relationship in which parent and child are enjoying each other ; it is much more a relationship in which the child is being prepared for competition with its peers and this , I feel , probably is going to turn out badly , because almost inevitably the child will not reach the levels that the parent has build up in fantasy in its own mind . |
| 15 | The animal , be it the rat in its maze of a chimpanzee gazing from a group of boxes to a clump of bananas hung just out of reach overhead , must reason out a course of action in its mind . |
| 16 | SCO , which got its Unix System V.3.2 licence relatively cheaply , is apparently trying to win concessions from Unix System Labs Inc in return for its endorsement of SVR4 , having behind it the leverage of its Unix-on-Intel base that would give USL a commanding share of the overall market . |
| 17 | She gave it the steadiness of her hand |
| 18 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 19 | Well is it the front of your jeans or you , you showing off ? |
| 20 | Foreign competition alarmed English manufacturers , who thought it the explanation of their difficulties . |
| 21 | Yeah no I 'm talking about is it the week after your prepping ? |
| 22 | The Labour Party showed more faith than anyone in the medicine of the pollsters and strategists , believing they has found in it the panacea for their 13-year malaise . |
| 23 | Our Lady was seen by many people , and they call it the shrine of Our Lady of Carns . |
| 24 | He gave it the strength of his spine it ate everything |
| 25 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 26 | He gave it the blood of his face it grew eager |
| 27 | There are also the exciting poses that come at the end of some of Ashton 's pas de deux as the two characters declare their love , for example , when Oberon cradles Titania in his arms at the end of The Dream and , even more excitingly , when Colas lifts Lise high on one arm it the end of their dance in Act II of La Fille Mai Gardée as if to crown her queen of the harvest |
| 28 | But the present doctrine of competition is destroying it , and with it the picture of our Englishness . |