Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further problem for the winner was that it appeared almost certain that the new President would have no more than 30 per cent of the total vote , and would , therefore , lack the sort of unequivocal popular mandate which Aquino had enjoyed . |
| 2 | All the signs are that it made virtually no impact at all . |
| 3 | The historical importance of the measure was that it gave , for the first time , a publicly financed cash benefit to a group of the needy , free from the deliberately induced stigma associated with the Poor Law . |
| 4 | erm now the strongest reason , I think , for believing that that is not the case is that it does n't come from the fossil record , it comes simply from looking at organisms today . |
| 5 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 6 | The first thing to note about the preface is that it needs to be read . |
| 7 | The difficulty is that it does not , one does not — not in one 's art , not in one 's life . |
| 8 | He referred unashamedly to certain usages , as recommended by Errol Flynn : ‘ The property of the drug is that it inflames the mucous membranes , such as those in a lady 's genital regions . |
| 9 | One advantage of the Chart is that it allows one to represent both complete analyses ( as inactive edges ) and partial analyses ( as active edges ) . |
| 10 | The problem with The Guardian is that it does n't look like a newspaper any more . |
| 11 | And although this research is industry-specific , the hope is that it offers insights and design lessons applicable in many areas . |
| 12 | THROUGH THIS PLEASANT little chapel in a quiet side street was clearly suitable for conversion to offices — providing the trustees with the financial return they sought — the story was that it had to be demolished because there was nowhere to site the requisite number of car-parking spaces . |
| 13 | The general principle underlying the definition of the term is that it excludes physical property which a potential purchaser can inspect . |
| 14 | One story told against the KGB is that it tried to steal the design secrets of the Anglo-French supersonic aircraft Concorde . |
| 15 | ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately . |
| 16 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 17 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 18 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 19 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 20 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 21 | The next call from the aircraft was as it crossed the BN having cleared for an ILS approach ; the call said that Invicta 435 was turning outbound again and would report again at the MN beacon . |
| 22 | However , a consequence of so extending the scope of the imperative is that it becomes relevant only to the logic of value judgments , and has no direct bearing on how far a creature adapted to heed only what pleases it can push towards awareness against the grain of organic functioning . |
| 23 | One of the key main objections to the Accord was that it failed to offer sufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 24 | Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation . |
| 25 | The likelihood is that it does n't . |
| 26 | My primary criticism of the work is that it tries to encompass too much . |
| 27 | The weakness of the proposal is that it dodges the West Lothian Question , first raised in the Seventies by Tam Dalyell . |
| 28 | The significance of the act is that it shows how much further the Lords of the Congregation were now prepared to go . |
| 29 | However , the most significant objection to the Act is that it has extended the scope of the common law exemption so that husbands are not criminally liable for acts of buggery or indecent assault perpetrated against their wives , save in the exceptional circumstances mentioned above . |
| 30 | The proposal that Hartle and I made can be paraphrased as : The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary . |