Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] it " 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 | And your mother thought to herself , honey , of the short life ahead of her , of all the worth and power within her and the little use it would be , and she felt such a weeping bitterness that she cursed humankind . |
| 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 | In the latter case it may even be a matter of reading one page in one session , whereas in the former you may be able to read and study a chapter — or even two . |
| 5 | In the former case D18 will be lit and in the latter case it will be extinguished . |
| 6 | There is an instruction which compares two fields for equality or non-equality , and in the latter case it indicates which field is greater . |
| 7 | In the latter case it might be difficult to even prove that the building was lived in at all . |
| 8 | In the latter case it is easily shown that the matching in fact yields an equivalence once induction has been used to deal with lower levels . |
| 9 | In the latter case it is important to remove the dead algae as this will deoxygenate the water during its decomposition and may asphyxiate the fish . |
| 10 | In the latter case it is necessary to make the bridging inference that the picnic supplies included beer in order to relate the context and target sentences . |
| 11 | In the latter case it is deducted from the damages he has to pay O. Where he returns the goods to O , O must pay Z the improvement allowance . |
| 12 | Both evolved a stable set of industrial relations , but while in the latter case it was achieved within the context of increasing output , the industry in Scotland was characterised by declining output and productivity and eventual collapse of the traditional spinning and weaving branches . |
| 13 | In the latter case it was expected that there would be a relationship between size of the memory set and the average response time which would tend towards linearity . |
| 14 | In the latter case it will be necessary to work closely with the local authority in carrying out a capital project . |
| 15 | In the latter case it can express either a subsequent actualization ( I managed to catch up with her ) or a subsequent potentiality ( I wanted to catch up with her ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | If the draftsman chooses the latter course it is suggested that the tenant be permitted to display any advertisement permitted by the Town and Country Planning ( Control of Advertisements ) Regulations 1992 ( SI No 666 ) . |
| 21 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 22 | On the latter point it is possible for the public to judge since proceedings in both houses of Parliament are now televised . |
| 23 | The warmer water becomes , the less oxygen it can hold in solution . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The model developed in chapter 4 suggested that only the unpredictable component of aggregate demand would cause output to deviate from its natural level , and the more unpredictable it was the less effect it would have on the deviation of real output from its natural rate . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The later it comes , the less time it stays . ’ |
| 29 | Graham Ward , the Price Waterhouse partner on the Prudential audit and vice-chairman of the Institute 's Auditing Committee , says : ‘ The more efficient a company 's accounting function might be , the less time it should take to do the audit . ’ |
| 30 | The more people there are helping the less time it takes . |