Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I took the book down and there was my speech ; and the response to it was extraordinary . |
| 2 | The measurable effect of this concern and the response to it was , to be honest , very limited . |
| 3 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
| 4 | Inequality and the response to it are themes of many geographical and political studies . |
| 5 | In a situation where it is required to perform some task , the reaction time can be seen to include the following : ( a ) the time taken by the stimulus to activate the sense organ and for impulses to travel from it to the brain , ( b ) the central processes concerned with the identification of the signal and the response to it , and ( c ) the time required to energise the muscles and produce the correct response . |
| 6 | The income from it is then the wife 's , therefore , if it happens to be three four four five , it is completely free of tax , whereas left with the husband would be taxed . |
| 7 | The can rolled sideways down the hill and she scrabbled across the tent for it . |
| 8 | and erm , mum was sorry that Mark had been on about it , she said , oh I bet that 's where he goes , and erm , like the park beside it was just lovely , |
| 9 | Causalism taken by itself has a related consequence , which has been obscured by the addition to it of what are really independent ideas , notably the arbitrary idea that conscious episodes having been conceived causally are then to be identified with neural structures and events . |
| 10 | There 's a great deal that a competent d-i-y enthusiast can undertake himself : the majority of it is hammer-and-saw work . |
| 11 | The Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales lost 8,195 hectares of moorland ( to agriculture and forestry ) between 1885 and 1975 , and the northern half of the Snowdonia National Park lost 5,201 hectares over a similar period , though the majority of it was to forestry . |
| 12 | The majority of it is in private ownership but livestock are almost always excluded and regeneration of woodland is not prevented as it is in most of the upland woods in the UK . |
| 13 | Er as I say , it the majority of it was soup , but on one occasion during the week , we always had er er some sort of mincemeat , er potted meat sandwiches and tea . |
| 14 | Each such polarization invariably reflects the values of the writers who impose it , but there is a wide consensus among critics who have written about the literature of the period that the majority of it is unambitious , anti-experimental and somewhat lacking in originality . |
| 15 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 16 | Still well I mean I know the majority of it 's wood and there 's three large windows in it , and a door and erm the roof is this erm stuff it 's just like er plastic moulding but it 's double glazed bloody oven in there ! |
| 17 | So really he 's got to get a job which is gon na pay the majority of it off . |
| 18 | To actually go through it a bit at a time I mean the majority of it is fine |
| 19 | I 've , I failed miserably so I thought , I 've had to put the apprentice on it you see ! |
| 20 | That 's the white one with the , with the green L E D display it 's got the calculator on it |
| 21 | He does not refer to the factory or the tannery beside it but points cruelly instead towards some squalid huts behind a tin wall . |
| 22 | Humanity having been halved like that , is it reassuring , the sameness of it all ? |
| 23 | As such , I must be one of the few hon. Members who has seen the practical effects of the implementation of legislation such as this , and not simply the ideology behind it . |
| 24 | All that the Bill contains , and the ideology behind it — the values and principles that it espouses — must be rejected tonight in favour of genuine local democracy , and a Labour Government who will implement real policies for the people whom we represent . |
| 25 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
| 26 | Serve the remainder of it separately . |
| 27 | ‘ Am I to walk on to the stage at the Shield with it on my finger , and the whole audience thinking that I am a wife when I am none ? |
| 28 | Spray it and then use the wrench on it , jump onto the window ledge then onto the door . |
| 29 | you 're describing the complexity of it . |
| 30 | I think it was then I tried to work out her relationship to Gómez , but the complexity of it made it difficult to grasp . |