Example sentences of "the [noun pl] it [verb] [conj] " 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 | In an ideal world I would also like to see the Campaign I support and represent cease to accept cash inducements from the institutions it attacks while paying lip service to valid campaigning issues . |
| 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 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I think basically having having heard the argument put forward from from both sides what what we 're really talking about is a is a policy that in in terms of its support from the districts it depends whether or not any particular district council might have such a use for the policy . |
| 10 | It was not Ramsay 's place to rebuke them , and Sir Archibald did not do so — for in the circumstances it looked as though no harm was done . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | According to my account of differentiation theory , however , the effect of discrimination training depends not on the associations it creates but on the fact that it concentrates the subject , s attention on distinctive features of the stimuli . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Among the primates it seems that the identity of the mother is important ; that of the father is irrelevant . |
| 16 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 17 | We did n't want the reforms it seems but now sixty to seventy percent of consultants are wanting the reforms . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For example an R & ID department can specify " the resources it needs and even the direction of its work . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | First , the charge is inherently more regressive than the rates it replaced as the tax base is the individual rather than the size of his of her property ( Travers 1989a:21 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although Hildyard and Olson do cite this literature in their article , they do not confront the arguments it raises but simply respond to them with ‘ alarm ’ . |
| 26 | The TEI header allows for the provision of a very large amount of structured or unstructured information under the above headings , including both traditional bibliographic material which can be translated straight into an equivalent MARC catalogue record , as well as a wealth of descriptive information such as the languages it uses and the situation within which it was produced , expansions or formal definitions for any codebooks used in analysing the text , the setting and identity of participants within it . |
| 27 | I turn now to consider the arguments advanced on behalf of Woolwich in support of its right to recover the payments it made as money had and received or as having been made under duress , two grounds which it was accepted shaded into one another . |
| 28 | He argues that a monad is fully determined by the attributes it has and , what is more , that every monad is qualitatively ( not just numerically ) different from every other . |
| 29 | Perhaps it all goes to confirm that a democratic society will inevitably get the police it deserves as it responds to new pressures . |
| 30 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |