Example sentences of "the [noun] it [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act . |
| 2 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 3 | The trade unions , trades councils and local Labour parties informed their members about the dangers it presented and energized their opposition — albeit in the form of peaceful protest . |
| 4 | When and where it met , the times it opened and closed , the people who were present , apologies for absence , actions it was agreed should be taken and the names of the individuals who will take responsibility . |
| 5 | Like the system of militia service it pressed heavily upon the poorer sections of the groups it affected and fell comparatively lightly on the middle classes of the French seaports . |
| 6 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 7 | Some , such as Robert Owen , among socialists , and conservatives such as Thomas Carlyle , had argued from the beginning of industrial capitalism in Britain that the source of the unequal distribution of wealth , income and power lay in the competitive , individualistic nature of the new economic system and the values it perpetuated and strengthened : the emphasis upon individual rather than co-operative effort , upon self-help for all rather than upon mutual obligation , such as the responsibility of the rich to help the poor in return for their labour . |
| 8 | Packets leaving the wrapping machine still passed over the checkweigher as before but now , instead of merely passing or rejecting each pack , the computer captured the data it measured and performed various analyses including the average weight and standard deviation for each hour . |
| 9 | In some cases a party may effectively exclude liability by including a comprehensive list of the duties it undertakes and making it clear that the list is exclusive . |
| 10 | For , with some qualifications which do not much affect the main point , he suggests that when we give reasons for an ethical statement we are typically making factual claims acceptance of which we hope will cause others to have the attitude it expresses and he distinguishes this sharply from the case where one statement gives some kind of logical or rational support to another . |
| 11 | I think the most attractive feature of being a pluralist is the independence it gives and that has certainly been borne out in my experience . |
| 12 | Narrative obtains and holds the interest of its audience by raising questions in their minds about the process it describes and delaying the answers to these questions . |
| 13 | As you know , at the moment it starts and five , but ideally perhaps it could start younger , but obviously there are financial considerations as well . |
| 14 | The Company will benefit because of the tax it saves and the resulting improvement in earnings in 1993–94 . |
| 15 | The membership issue now has the profile it deserves and demands at Table , Area and National levels and this must be continued . |
| 16 | It is important to remember that fleece is a FLOATING CLOCHE and should only be supported by the plants it protects and is by definition just that — a material to ‘ float ’ over the crop supported only by the crop . |
| 17 | The then editor of The Architectural Review , J.M. Richards , offered an affectionate description of the English suburb in The castles on the ground ( 1946 ) , which instead of pouring scorn on suburban taste , took more seriously the needs it fulfilled and the impulses that created it . |
| 18 | This cadaver will call for more extensive ‘ treatment ’ by the embalmer , due partly to the delay it causes and partly because what is perceived by him to be often unwarranted mutilation . |
| 19 | Indeed if a BBC nationwide survey in 1987 is to be heeded , the CAB can be confident that the public is aware of the service it provides and makes good use of it . |
| 20 | It was therefore fortunate both in the capitation it received and the extra financial support provided by an active and caring parent body . |
| 21 | This argues that there was a drift away from the union after the strike , although it did not , apparently , happen immediately ( and there are some discrepancies between the figures it gives and the 1870s records ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 23 | Yet policy makers , planners and local government officials have a limited grasp of the historical development of nineteenth century cities and the project attempts to investigate the principal factors which governed that process , the problems it highlighted and the pitfalls which have been encountered and which need not be reproduced in the twentieth century given an awareness of a historical dimension . |
| 24 | For example an R & ID department can specify " the resources it needs and even the direction of its work . |
| 25 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | The way to recovery lies in learning to place that blame where it belongs , to use the anger it arouses and to give yourself the praise you deserve just for surviving the abuse . |
| 27 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 28 | To find out what is distinctive about the style of a certain corpus or text we work out the frequencies of the features it contains and then measure these figures against equivalent figures which are " normal " for the language in question.The style is then to be measured in terms of deviations — either higher frequencies or lower frequencies — from the norm . |
| 29 | A further cause for concern was Recommendation 6 , with its proposal to base grant for the coming year to each Responsible Body not only on the standards of its own work but also on the needs of the area it served and on the provision made by others . |
| 30 | Once you have used the designer , you can take the code it produces and edit it in the usual way . |