Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , the forms which nationalism has assumed , and the political regimes that it has brought into existence , are extremely diverse .
2 Mr. D. has the right ideas when it comes to hardware .
3 You 've ticked the wrong things but it does n't matter cos we can probably use those anyway .
4 Although the coverage is not comprehensive , and many reviews on various aspects of cage hydrocarbon chemistry are available , to my mind the real value of this book lies in the ideas that it generates , the insights into the chemical developments it provides , and the historical connections that it reveals .
5 I run into the arms of Andy 's parents walking with the dogs near the ornamental ponds and it seems like an age before I can tell them what 's happened because my voice wo n't work and I can see the fear in their eyes and they 're asking , ‘ Where is Andrew ?
6 The wavelength of the light increases as it passes from A to B for two reasons .
7 So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them .
8 I have ignored such central and prestigious characters in the drama is professor Wold of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , who is seeking to perfect a cheap , early diagnostic test for trisomy 21 during pregnancy on the interesting grounds that it costs £500,000 ( not accounting for inflation ) to look after a person with trisomy 21 for life .
9 Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit .
10 So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't .
11 ‘ Do n't you feel a slight envy of the Roman Catholics when it comes to making a trip like this ? ’ said Edwin Pettigrew to Mark .
12 Fourth , the argument can not be rejected on the similar grounds that it argues directly from the fact that you might be wrong to the conclusion that you do not know .
13 The gene itself benefits , in terms of its vertical transmission , from the average effects that it has on a whole series of bodies .
14 Reference to chimpanzees and apes has been made here and there throughout the preceding chapters and it seems appropriate to relate just one example of their mental processes in these pages .
15 This chapter describes the various roles that the Bank takes on , and puts them in the context of the overall powers that it enjoys , particularly in relation to the supervisory activities carried out and the possibility of the emergence of a European Central Bank .
16 Mr Major is furious at the rebels ' tactics in gleefully voting with Labour and the Liberal Democrats when it suits them .
17 fire first , sometimes the police , if it 's a really serious fire , get there first but the real professionals when it comes to a fire are the Fire Brigade .
18 This latest book turns the spotlight on the human aspects and it offers excellent entertainment .
19 Repeatedly doing this will move the cursor through all of the blank lines until it reaches the maximum .
20 The organism is in i is inspired into the alveolar spaces and it 's taken up by alveolar , the standard er abbreviation for macrophage and , the organism i in contrast to many others which we 've sort of er die fairly rapidly after being taken up by these phagocytic cells , says Goodee !
21 How it changes tells historians as much about the technological developments as it does about the interface between human and machine .
22 However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been .
23 He said that the British APT ( Advanced Passenger Train ) and the Canadian LRC ( Light , Rapid and Comfortable ) — which like the APT tilts as it enters bends — were failures .
24 ‘ Established cinemas , theatres etc … exist in the police universe to repress the very things that It stands for .
25 There is a kind of contradiction in classical structuralist writing which attributes to literature a non-referential self-sufficiency supposed to incarnate language 's very being , and yet which continues itself to employ a language whose referential scientificity ignores the very qualities that it speaks of .
26 The genetic information stored in the viral DNA or RNA must be used to produce the viral proteins that it codes for ( D in Figure ) .
27 I am always told they you should have a trim every 4–6 weeks to get rid of all the split ends but it seems difficult to grow my hair when it 's constantly being cut .
28 The EC1 pattern controller reads the mylar sheets and it has the pattern variation controls .
29 I do n't suppose there 's much doubt that Milton approached his marriage a little late in life with an intensity of idealism that must , to some degree , have derived from the high conception of the chastity to which he had up till then dedicated himself , and poor Mary Powell , just like Desdemona , becomes a victim of male idealisation and the unreasonable demands that it makes .
30 In a rather different approach the assumption of speculative efficiency may be tested by exploiting the cross-equation restrictions that it implies .
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