Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 2 | Now , carrying a cardboard tray loaded with teas and coffees and soft drinks cans , she stepped in again from the street and felt the silence of the alley as it clamped in around her . |
| 3 | It may be that those responsible for the well-known picture of the so-called ‘ Dancing Sorcerer ’ ( on the wall of one of the innermost recesses of the Trois Frères cave in the department of Arriège in France ) , which represents a man in the skin of an animal and wearing the antlers of a stag , may have felt that the actual performance of the dance was insufficient , since they were concerned about the conservation of the magical efficacy of the dance after it had ended . |
| 4 | Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ . |
| 5 | The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride . |
| 6 | The Chinese writers usually refer to the Nagas under that name and the character of the Dragon as it appears in the folklore and literature of China and Tibet is in great part derived from the Indian conception of the Naga . |
| 7 | We consider the dryness of the Church as it tends to be too often a shadow image of that world . |
| 8 | The second consequence of this unilinearity is that the idea of the standard is projected backwards on to states of language and society in which that idea may not have existed , or — if it did exist — may have been different in important ways from the idea of the standard as it exists today . |
| 9 | Something in the blood adjusted to the expectation of the flight , the whoosh , the pause while it hung silent and concentrated in the air , and then the burst , first upon the ear and then the scattering upon the sky ; and then the relief of the fall as it died down , back again , done with , on the ground . |
| 10 | ‘ Keith hits and kicks any child playing with a toy he wants ’ is an objective description of the problem and it allows us to decide whether it should take priority over some other problem behaviour . |
| 11 | What is needed as far as language teachers are concerned is some way of making them aware of the problem as it relates to their professional work and of providing the means whereby they might arrive at interpretations appropriate to themselves . |
| 12 | In her authoritative study , José Harris tells us that where unemployment was concerned , Liberal policy dealt with ‘ only an ice-berg tip ’ of the problem as it had been defined by Booth , Llewellyn Smith , Beveridge , and the Webbs . |
| 13 | Because they were the part , they are the structure of the service as it exists at present . |
| 14 | He waited tactfully with Catherine and the young constable on the embankment , liking the sweep of the country as it spread out in the raw , cold day . |
| 15 | The silver water shatters under her feet , the child bounces as he rides on her breast , and she no longer hears Sycorax , only the pulse of the sea as it breaks in frills on the smooth and shiny sand , the splash of her stride and the drumming of her heart as she makes for the forest to the north , her back turned to the bay where the English ship rides at anchor , where the sea battle will take place . |
| 16 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 17 | Erm I 've got an information pack here which I 'll hand out at the end of the session and it 's got sort of four fairly erm useful leaflets in it . |
| 18 | Litany of the chariot as it moves on its runners , he wrote . |
| 19 | The bullet ripped through his deltoid muscle and pulverized part of the scapula as it exited , the impact enough to spin him almost three hundred and sixty degrees . |
| 20 | The judicial or administrative authority may also refuse to order the return of the child if it finds that the child objects to being returned and has attained the age and degree of maturity at which it is appropriate to take account of its views . |
| 21 | Elsewhere in this Report there is some discussion of the question as it affects cathedrals . |
| 22 | I was n't really keen on injecting because of the name that it 'd got . |
| 23 | The horse had barely stepped on to the gravelly riverbed at the edge of the ford when it stumbled , almost falling to its knees . |
| 24 | In solutions , which are stabilized in this way by secondary bonding , the LCST usually appears below the boiling temperature of the solvent but it has been found experimentally that an LCST can be detected in non-polar systems when these are examined at temperatures approaching the critical temperature of the solvent . |
| 25 | The modern obsession with the tube — that evanescent twist of the wave as it curls itself up into the form of a vagina to lure in unwary youths like bees into the mouths of flowers — perpetuates the equation of surfing and sex . |
| 26 | In reality , the guardians of authority collude in the maintenance of the territory once it has been colonized , and as a result enter into the social framework on the terraces . |
| 27 | The producer , who was himself about to take the reins of the tour as it moved on to the regions of Britain as the Coca Cola Hit Man roadshow with Sinitta , Sonia and others from his stable below Kylie on the bill , said plans to take her to a major stadia like Wembley had been quickly dismissed . |
| 28 | No agreement had yet been reached on the name of the Polytechnic when it assumes University status in 1993 . |
| 29 | Usually , it simply colonizes the outer surface of the epithelium that it infects . |
| 30 | The number of strands in the tight junctions may correlate inversely with the permeability of the epithelium and it has been shown that the crypt tight junctions have fewer strands than the villous junctions . |