Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Altering the look of a step can involve changing the time signature or tempo to which it is danced , the direction it takes or a change of épaulement , its quality and expressiveness , to name but a few . |
| 2 | To the sensor it appears that all the energy has been reflected from point P on the ground whereas , in fact , it has not , because some has been scattered within the atmosphere and has never reached the ground at all . |
| 3 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ' education committee opted not to continue the support it gave when the Government withdrew funding for Scotland 's only adult residential college in 1988 . |
| 4 | At the trial it appeared that the defendant was not in fact owner of the houses . |
| 5 | After the trial it emerged that the foreman of the jury was not only a member of Sir Joh 's National Party but had in fact raised funds for his legal expenses . |
| 6 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 7 | There are several fabliaux in which the explicit moral seems to be so incongruous in relation to the narrative it accompanies as to be facetious , if not sarcastic . |
| 8 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 9 | In the contract it states that they can chose their own producer , recording budget and studio . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And the star ’ — he tipped his head in the general direction of the galaxies — ‘ is the perfect symbol for the hope it brings because , like a star , it is glimpsed most clearly from the corner of the eye . ’ |
| 12 | To the layman it seemed that a decreasing service was being provided at increasing expense . |
| 13 | It 's pretty good fun — I like the noise it makes when it breaks . |
| 14 | The price you pay for your lawnmower does not reflect the cost to your neighbours of the noise it makes when you use it . |
| 15 | It hits his head and you do n't hear the noise it makes because you cry out at the same time , as though it 's you in the bed , you being attacked , you being killed . |
| 16 | Secondly , when the Department asked about the balance and breadth of the curriculum it found that few authorities encouraged schools to discuss the issues and it was mainly through routine visits of advisers that concern for balance and breadth was promoted . |
| 17 | That when women are given the vote it follows that children should be given it too is no argument at all , but a version of it occurs in modern debates over the justice or injustice of Mill 's famous disclaimer in his essay On Liberty . |
| 18 | A few stars pricked the sky , and in the warmth of the car it seemed that she and Luke were the only two people in the world , travelling through a hushed darkness together . |
| 19 | To the outsider it appears that when change of any kind is required , the NHS is so structured as to resemble a " mobile " : designed to move with any breath of air , but which in fact never changes its position and gives no clear indication of direction . |
| 20 | From the nucleotide sequence the amino acid sequence of the protein it codes for can be determined and this provides an excellent starting point for finding out the role of the protein in development . |
| 21 | Then Hence if the reference element dS lies along the 1-axis it follows that — = – 1 and Equation ( 2.5 ) gives the value of — for any other direction ( only one direction cosine l 1 is required since there is axial symmetry in this case ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed , and unless I spend the next twenty-four hours on the telephone it looks as though we are plumb out of luck , ’ he added , throwing the phone book down in disgust . |
| 23 | ( The libretto of Le Guy de chesne specified groups of shepherds and shepherdesses in the final pages , then a druidic march , then the ceremony , and lastly ‘ des danses vives et agreables ’ ) Indeed , it might have been the composer , Laruette , who acted as conducteur from the singers ' names in the libretto it appears that he did not sing a solo role in his own opéra . |
| 24 | Your body is supplied with the oxygen it needs when it needs it to burn in its fuel mixture . |
| 25 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If he says the second it means that there is a better chance of winning £1000 by drawing a red marble from the urn . |
| 28 | If he says the second it means that there is a better chance of winning £1000 by drawing a red marble from the urn . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |