Example sentences of "it [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some have proposed other reasons for Planet X , blaming it for causing periodic comet showers and mass extinctions on Earth , or for stealing Pluto from Neptune and reversing the motion of Neptune 's satellite Triton . |
| 2 | Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards . |
| 3 | Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd 's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs . |
| 4 | He 's looking all around as it of make sure thee 's no one here . |
| 5 | These suspicions were echoed by the country 's Catholic bishops , who , in a pastoral letter delivered on March 22 , made an unprecedented attack on the government , accusing it of fomenting ethnic tensions . |
| 6 | A new book criticising Hollywood 's current output and accusing it of undermining traditional values has provoked fierce debate in the US . |
| 7 | In recent weeks Walesa had launched bitter attacks on the government , accusing it of delaying economic and political reform ( and especially of retaining former communists in the Cabinet ) and of making workers bear the brunt of the current economic austerity plan . |
| 8 | WHAT was it like to grow old in the past in Britain ? |
| 9 | Its alleged that Mr Middleton repeatedly whipped the animal to frighten it into jumping clear . |
| 10 | Put it in writing marked , Without prejudice |
| 11 | As Chola was kneading the dough , they hovered over it in hissing black droves , and she stopped occasionally to pick out the ones she accidentally squashed , like currants . |
| 12 | There is just enough décor and furniture to prevent it from looking empty , but space and simplicity are the most powerful impressions made on the visitor — what Leonard called in a different context ‘ the voluptuousness of austerity . ’ |
| 13 | At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’ |
| 14 | plus it protects it , stops it from getting chipped . |
| 15 | I hung it on a branch to keep it from getting damp . |
| 16 | Rafiq says that storing hashish inside the skin of a freshly-slaughtered sheep is the only way to keep it from going stale . |
| 17 | Ireland 's aircraft-leasing firm , GPA , pulled off a deal with GE Capital , the finance arm of America 's General Electric , that could save it from going bust . |
| 18 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 19 | The decision lifts restrictions placed by the court on BSDI several months ago forbidding it from distributing advanced BSD/386 beta code or and production software ( UX No 413 ) . |
| 20 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 21 | Thin Ethernet uses a coaxial BNC connector with a rotating sleeve lock , to prevent it from coming adrift from the network interface card . |
| 22 | April 30 : visit by Prime Minister Popov to NATO headquarters and statement that Bulgaria would not sign a security treaty with the Soviet Union which that precluded it from joining other alliances . |
| 23 | Jitters had his gun back , with just one bloody buggering round left in it , so he would jolly well have to put it to freaking good use , would n't he , by jove . |
| 24 | There are not going to be agents of the DES disguised as pupils planted in every classroom , and teachers , renowned for their creativity , can exercise some of it on discovering creative interpretations of the law . |
| 25 | The report on East Cleveland 's housing shortage was made at a forum in Skelton which revealed that there are : 114 homeless families in East Cleveland 2000 households on the council 's waiting list Only 35 new private houses built in the area in 1991–2 Langbaurgh council has £11m from the sale of council houses but is not allowed to spend it on building new ones . |
| 26 | I did it on having testicular cancer . |
| 27 | Have what you like , and enjoy it without feeling guilty . |
| 28 | Rationalization refers to people 's efforts to construct an explanation for their fallibility which allows them to own it without feeling bad about it . |
| 29 | Equally , your murder still needs to be , in so far as you can contrive it without becoming ridiculous , attention-grabbing . |
| 30 | Find out ways to tolerate the apparently unchangeable circumstance ; to live through it without becoming upset or ruffled , remind yourself that it wo n't last forever . |