Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony appears to have fully emerged from the shameful obscurity it once endured to become one of the most popular and recorded of all Romantic symphonies . |
| 2 | Whilst there is still some pressure for further reform , it is generally recognised that the Lords do perform a useful function and the abolition lobby no longer enjoys the political significance it once did . |
| 3 | In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis . |
| 4 | Thus Spencer Stuart has not been unduly dependent on the multinational business it originally brought with it , and has many loyal British corporate clients on its books . |
| 5 | We 've got one corner of the garden out the front and if the wind 's in the right direction it neatly puts them all together . |
| 6 | But ultimately , it is only when the deaf demand it courteously , politely but firmly , and demand a rightful place in society , that it will be accorded to them . |
| 7 | The rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies , but the emotional hold it formerly possessed over the minds of most Japanese has been substantially weakened . |
| 8 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 9 | Although Lord Ridleys aggressive and forthright manner sometimes rubbed people up the wrong way it also gained him the respect of colleagues … |
| 10 | ‘ Even if I just get one of my feet in the wrong position it really messes me about and it 's easy for that foot to just flick off the peg . ’ |
| 11 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 12 | The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive . |
| 13 | The dawn played strange tricks with the pond : it was no longer a muddy puddle , less than ten yards in diameter , but a shining expanse of water , tinted red and silver , and fringed by a belt of trees that seemed more like a forest than the overgrown shrubbery it really was . |
| 14 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 15 | This phenomenon again suggests that the interpretation of a pronoun is influenced by a representation of superficial aspects of the preceding text It also lends itself to experimental study . |
| 16 | Greece is not , on the evidence of the past , the sort of place to carry through the democratic reconstruction it now needs . |
| 17 | In terms of its effect on the overall festival it certainly was a major underpinning for us because our investment was high , so it does leave us with some problems financially . |
| 18 | Whatever happens , Olivetti 's commitment to the MIPS-based technology it already employs is not in question . |
| 19 | The following day it further reported that Mallam Yahaya had surrendered to police . |
| 20 | Their main significance is that by predicating the breach on damage to the interests of creditors and thus expanding the corporate constituency it no longer automatically follows that the breach should be ratifiable by the shareholders . |
| 21 | The worst injury it too awful to show . |
| 22 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a team effort , starting life as a coarsely shopped terrine and developing into the layered terrine it now is , showing off the colours and textures of the ingredients , ’ he says . |
| 24 | ‘ Thanks , ’ he said dryly , his face taking on the blank expression it usually had when he was annoyed . |
| 25 | For the international economy it hopefully brings about a more efficient allocation of investment or financial resources . |
| 26 | And although there is usually another promise about interest rates , in the long run it usually means very little . |
| 27 | But in the long run it only makes me feel worse about myself . |
| 28 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 29 | with Argyll 's management and substantial experience in the food and drink markets , both nationally and internationally , we can restore Distillers to the pre-eminent position it once occupied at home and abroad , and that we have the opportunity to build Distillers and Argyll into Scotland 's greatest company … based in Edinburgh and directed from there . |
| 30 | This is officially the last of the Zodiacal constellations , though since it now contains the Vernal Equinox it really ought to be the first . |