Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On telecommunications , Banegas took the opportunity to criticise the government for the little interest it has shown in putting an end to the import of unauthorised pirate telephones , 3m of which are now in Spain . |
| 2 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
| 3 | It is therefore all the more significant that , among the few statistics it does contain , data on variations in performance between providers feature so prominently — 50% variation in acute hospital treatment costs , for example , or 100% variation in general practitioner prescribing costs . |
| 4 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |
| 5 | Among the many conditions it treats are sciatica , high blood pressure , depression , asthma and bronchitis . |
| 6 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 7 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 8 | I recommend it not only for its excellent chapter on 17th century siege warfare , but also for the many clues it throws up en passant about where you might begin searching if you know of , or read about , a siege in your locality that is not in the book 's contents list . |
| 9 | Hazel Turkington went along to see this impressive complex and the many facilities it has to offer . |
| 10 | Three major weaknesses of the paper are its lack of clarity , its lack of detail and the many opportunities it offers to those who hold information that should be made public , to use various loopholes to avoid so doing . |
| 11 | Once established , a pool needs very little maintenance compared with the many delights it offers . |
| 12 | In the latter case it remains to be determined whether any of the minor polypeptides detected in our assay are related to other CRE-binding activities ( ECRE-1 , ECRE-3 and ECRE-4 ) that have previously been shown to be down regulated during differentiation of F9 cells ( 48 ) . |
| 13 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 14 | There is an instruction which compares two fields for equality or non-equality , and in the latter case it indicates which field is greater . |
| 15 | In the latter case it seems that the court must approve the payment in pursuant to Ord 10 , r 10 , though it is difficult to see to what approval a debt or liquidated sum can be subject . |
| 16 | Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ . |
| 17 | It will still be the case that only random aggregate demand will affect real output , and the more unpredictable aggregate demand is , the less effect it has on output . |
| 18 | Both were old enough to feel keenly the savage blow , one from which Leonard suffered in particular , albeit outwardly in guarded silence : ‘ The deeper the sorrow , the less tongue it has , ’ said the rabbis . |
| 19 | The more people there are helping the less time it takes . |
| 20 | The later it comes , the less time it stays . ’ |
| 21 | Surely , the longer an animal lives , and the longer it goes on producing offspring , the more genes it transmits to future generations ? |
| 22 | The shorter this is , the more sense it makes to take the lump sum , rather than deny yourself for a longer-term pension that you will not be around to enjoy . |
| 23 | And the more success it has , the more self-esteem it gains , and the more confidence it has to compete against others , or even the environment . |
| 24 | And the more success it has , the more self-esteem it gains , and the more confidence it has to compete against others , or even the environment . |
| 25 | Erm , it 's because you need land , and er , the bigger the area of land you 've got , the more time it takes to get your combine harvester from one side to the other er , and so on and so forth . |
| 26 | And the more miles it 's done , the more you pay them to . |
| 27 | And the more success it has , the more self-esteem it gains , and the more confidence it has to compete against others , or even the environment . |
| 28 | The finer the gauge of machine , the more needles it has , so if you move down a gauge with your fine yarn , you will get a better fabric and have more needles with which to knit the larger sizes . |
| 29 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 30 | The larger the scope of welfare state activities , the more force it has . |