Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [subord] it [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. D. has the right ideas when it comes to hardware .
2 The wavelength of the light increases as it passes from A to B for two reasons .
3 ‘ Do n't you feel a slight envy of the Roman Catholics when it comes to making a trip like this ? ’ said Edwin Pettigrew to Mark .
4 Mr Major is furious at the rebels ' tactics in gleefully voting with Labour and the Liberal Democrats when it suits them .
5 fire first , sometimes the police , if it 's a really serious fire , get there first but the real professionals when it comes to a fire are the Fire Brigade .
6 ‘ Oh , and I do n't know if you 're going to play any games with the younger boys before it gets dark — ’
7 Repeatedly doing this will move the cursor through all of the blank lines until it reaches the maximum .
8 In the later stages if it lingers , with a weepy clingy child desiring open air and is worse in a warm room ; thirstless ; heavily coated tongue yellow or white ; dry mouth ; bad taste ; enlarged glands everywhere .
9 How it changes tells historians as much about the technological developments as it does about the interface between human and machine .
10 However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been .
11 He said that the British APT ( Advanced Passenger Train ) and the Canadian LRC ( Light , Rapid and Comfortable ) — which like the APT tilts as it enters bends — were failures .
12 If you 're gon na turn to stealing , then from then on it 's gon na be not the last resort any more , it 's gon na be one of the first resorts because it pays so much quicker .
13 What is more , all of us apply the same criteria when it comes to saving our own favourite environments , human or non-human , from ‘ being ruined ’ by too many people or the wrong kind of people .
14 It can not be supposed , then , that the STV would work in the United Kingdom in precisely the same ways as it does in Ireland .
15 Another problem is where a function word in the target language has the same meaning as in your own language , but does not occur in all the same contexts as it does in your own language .
16 X/Open says it is taking DCE on the same terms as it has taken object specifications from OMG .
17 Adaptation is one of the longer chapters since it exemplifies fitness .
18 But the theory of global class struggle is basically incompatible with the other approaches because it deprecates the significance of the political conflicts within liberal democracies .
19 Texas Instruments will manufacture the new SuperSparcs as it does the current ones .
20 Texas Instruments will manufacture the new SuperSparcs as it does the current ones .
21 It is this ability to produce flowers throughout the summer and early autumn that ranks them with the true annuals when it comes to creating the most colourful and long lasting planting schemes .
22 Largest aircraft to leave the Museum and the one that could give the most problems when it comes to moving it , is former Spanish Dornier Do 24 flying boat HD5-1 .
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