Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marbles are still rich and some of the mosaics are visible , but in general the colour is disappointingly dark and dull , showing little of the brilliance it once had . |
| 2 | The energy required to remove the electron depends only on the energy of the level it originally occupied relative to that of an unbound electron , so photoelectron spectra are in principle much simpler than electronic excitation spectra . |
| 3 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ say City fans of the way it quietly concentrates on its local patch and gets on with the job . |
| 5 | And tomorrow TI 's finance team it due to visit Cheltenham for a close inspection of the company it now owns . |
| 6 | In front of the stove it soon came back to life , and then he could return it to its mother . |
| 7 | Whilst a rise in temperature increases the rate of activity of the detergent it also increases the capacity of water to dissolve solids . |
| 8 | With luck , these two new Windows-based spreadsheets should help Lotus hang on to the 40% of the market it currently controls . |
| 9 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 10 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 11 | When we investigate experimentally the " stuff of the world it never tells lies , it never changes the rules in the course of play . |
| 12 | If the industry can answer ‘ yes ’ to these and similar questions about other sectors of the industry it probably makes sense to take a hard look at what is happening in New Zealand and to then advocate some radical thinking in both London and Brussels . |
| 13 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 14 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 15 | But if you leave it on the back of the paper it slowly dries out and turns bright yellow , staining the paper in the process . |