Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun sg] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Tubwell torrentor it had a disconcerting habit of flooding the road and turning it into a muddy cesspool . |
| 2 | With Martina Navratilova , Arantxa Sanchez , Mary Jo Fernandez and Barbara Rittner already confirmed for the RDS event it looks like being even more high profile than last year 's inaugural undertaking . |
| 3 | One step Labour could take is to adopt the final part of the SDP/SLD agenda it has not yet embraced — electoral and constitutional reform . |
| 4 | As we were unable to cover any practical work in the January session it has been requested that further time be allocated . |
| 5 | The X Business Group , the force trying to energize this new-fangled trade organisation , the X Industry Association ( UX No 410 ) , has extended the December deadline it set to see if it could get industry backing until January because the solicitation letters just went out . |
| 6 | On the EPR paradox it seemed that the Copenhagen school had achieved just such a Pyrrhic victory . |
| 7 | The IIIrd and IVth Republics in France collapsed because of their chronic instability : the average life of a cabinet in the IVth Republic was less than seven months , while under the IIIrd Republic it had been nine . |
| 8 | In Liverpool drink-related crime is down 22 per cent and in the Thames Valley it has dropped 13 per cent so far this year . |
| 9 | With the recent review of the Carlton combo it seems to many of us out here that you 've started to wake up . |
| 10 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 11 | At the Bradford Conference it attempted ( unsuccessfully ) to commit the ILP to the Organization of revolutionary militancy in the working class . |
| 12 | By means of the Ulster Canal it carries on a communication between Belfast and Enniskillen , and with Newry ( and the sea ) by the Newry Navigation . |
| 13 | By the time it reached the Manchester Palace it had become the most well documented tour of the year . |
| 14 | Until the Gulf war it had never had to contemplate a high-tech non-nuclear war . |
| 15 | Since the Bingham Report it has set up a special investigations unit and improved staff training . |
| 16 | In addition , the Kingscote pavement shares with mosaic 9 a similar arrangement and a border of relieved swastika meander ; and like the Lydney mosaic it has a circular band of scroll pattern , while " the curving scrolls with petals and volutes are best mirrored in both of the panels which lie above the Hare mosaic . |
| 17 | This might appear exorbitant , and indeed as a symbolic castration of the Oedipus complex it represents a partial subversion of Lacanian theory . |
| 18 | In the Tokugawa period it enjoyed some autonomy , and was permitted a certain degree of self-reliance and self-government . |
| 19 | In the aftermath of the Vietnam war it had agreed to take in those fleeing from the persecution of a vindictive regime and agreed to resettle those who fled by boat . |
| 20 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 21 | Under the Summerskill regime it seems that officials can indulge in any sort of brutality they like . |