Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top Irish and Australians also begin their careers in Flanders and it shows in the way they ride . |
| 2 | Inchoate anger seethed on in the Weald until it exploded in the autumn of 1645 when the ‘ Clubmen ’ appeared , basically a ‘ confederacy with the vulgar multitude ’ of tenant farmers . |
| 3 | He was the first high-ranking UN official to visit Taiwan since it withdrew from the UN in 1971 . |
| 4 | The Cavalier was being followed through Milton Keynes when it turned into the cul-de-sac and hit the wall at about 50 miles an hour . |
| 5 | It signifies the widening activity of the king 's judges in the localities of England and it witnesses to the relish and vigour with which the king 's authority was implemented over rival jurisdictions . |
| 6 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 7 | An episode of the new series was banned in England because it referred to the ‘ victory of the IRA over the English in the 21st century ’ |
| 8 | Complex natural ecosystems are replaced by unsustainable simple ones , with a resulting loss of biodiversity — and that applies as much in the de-natured agricultural prairies of Alberta and East Anglia as it does to the hamburger ranches of Brazil . |
| 9 | Ramsay and Fraser reckoned that perhaps one-third might desert Dunbar when it came to the crunch . |
| 10 | Beveridge thought a small part of the new scheme 's income should go to the NHS as it had under the old . |
| 11 | It is called Kulta and it comes from the distant reaches of Lapland . |
| 12 | High Row , Darlington , on an overcast Monday and it seemed like the town 's electorate had decided to move lock , stock and barrel somewhere else . |
| 13 | The alternative option , clearly the one it favoured , was ‘ to accept Israel as it existed on the condition that each refugee be allowed to return to his home , whether it was under Arab or Israeli jurisdiction . ’ |
| 14 | Roald Dahl has nothing on Lewis Carroll when it comes to the grotesque . |
| 15 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 16 | Underground flooding was threatening to undermine Moscow , while inadequate storage of radioactive waste could lead to a catastrophe exceeding the scale of Chernobyl if it leaked into the Caspian Sea . |
| 17 | A complete split was also threatened when the North branch voted to withdraw from the BSP if it affiliated to the Labour Party ( ibid. 4 August 14 ) . |
| 18 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 19 | One of them is the beginning of the biographical sketch of Ernest Hemingway as it appears in the Penguin edition of his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls ; the other is the same biographical sketch with the order of information in each sentence altered . |
| 20 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |
| 21 | It is a system opposed by CAMRA as it interferes with the natural processes of beer maturation . |
| 22 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 23 | Many aspects of the diplomatic organisation of western and central Europe as it existed by the beginning of the seventeenth century continued with little essential change down to the French Revolution and indeed beyond . |
| 24 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 25 | All of them tended to assume that the territorial division of Europe as it stood at the moment of their publication was , or could be made , permanent and sacrosanct . |
| 26 | The Orange Chromide Etroplus maculatus ( this is a ‘ man-made ’ red version ) is a cichlid from India and Sri Lanka where it lives in the estuaries . |
| 27 | The Orange Chromide Etroplus maculatus ( this is a ‘ man-made ’ red version ) is a cichlid from India and Sri Lanka where it lives in the estuaries . |
| 28 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 29 | Kermit and his staff had been watching Hurricane Andrew as it tore through the Bahamas . |
| 30 | But before that , to the north , numerous small rivers and tributaries — including the likes of the Bruar Water , the Banvie , the Tilt and the Fender Burn have all fattened the River Garry before it feeds into the Tummel and on down into the Tay . |