Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This order , as its name suggests , was developed as a richer example than the Corinthian , but it is only in the capital that it differs materially . |
| 2 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 3 | And Iran is as unpopular in the West as it has ever been . |
| 4 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 5 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 6 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 7 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 8 | Its shares shot up 10 p.c last week and the company , Portugal 's largest quoted stock , is hoping to ride the tide of interest in the escudo when it launches a sale of shares and convertible bonds later this month to raise $300m of new capital . |
| 9 | It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter , 11 , champing at the bit for more . |
| 10 | Football has not played as great a part in the company as it has in previous years . |
| 11 | Or in the case whether it changes or not , are not printed . |
| 12 | And if some , er , jus it was very thin slices of beef , topside of well I thought I 'll get some beef out , and I did it in the microwave and it cooked but it was it was quite tough . |
| 13 | Now the beer is ready for the final stage in the brewery before it leaves for the pub cellar . |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't want to be caught up in the rush when it comes . ’ |
| 15 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 16 | I thought there used to be a set of traffic lights in the middle and it 's gone . |
| 17 | Evaluation such as that carried out in Example F is likely to misrepresent what has been achieved in the teaching unless it takes into account pupils ' initial performances and the relative difficulty of what they are learning . |
| 18 | He had no time to stand about in the theatre if it did not deliver . |
| 19 | Then all I do is mix a lot of sawdust with the oil in the gear-box and it runs as sweet as a nut . ’ |
| 20 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 21 | Through the window Dexter saw the silver arrow of a jet flare in the sun as it turned to make its descent to Heathrow . |
| 22 | 1 Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the fat until it resembles fine breadcrumbs . |
| 23 | but she certainly was sixpence short in the shilling when it came to dress-sense . |
| 24 | Mr Smith said that Tendring was probably going to be harder hit by the VAT introduction than other place in the country because it had such a very high proportion of elderly people . |
| 25 | Buxton 's strength was his sense of conscience on behalf of distant slaves but it was also a weakness from the perspective of militants in the country because it resisted dictation from collective antislavery opinion . |
| 26 | All I can remember is an object hitting me in the head as it came through the window and glass shattering everywhere . |
| 27 | I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that |
| 28 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 29 | Kubrick was also responsible for casting Jean Simmons in the film when it became apparent that the actress originally chosen was inadequate . |
| 30 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |