Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discretionary power and the opportunity to exercise it exist at all levels of police organizations . |
| 2 | Being such an " odd bod " he was the butt of many who took the opportunity to make it known that he was different from us , and whether we thought we would in time change him was something that was a hope — happily a fond hope . |
| 3 | Britain , France and West Germany have argued for a joint world turnover threshold of £3.5bn , while the majority want it set lower at £1.4bn . |
| 4 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 5 | USL repaid approximately $13m to AT&T from the proceeds and the remainder allows it to fund its cash flow requirements . |
| 6 | The twin caricatures of the King hoarding the nation 's wealth and the Prince dissipating it had appeared in other Gillray etchings , but nowhere with greater effect than in these two productions of July 1792 . |
| 7 | The Pentagon said it knew of 59 dead and 66 wounded , and of 1,500 prisoners from the 6,000-strong Panamanian Defence Force . |
| 8 | More and more the struggle to express it intensified . |
| 9 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 10 | The board said it regretted that Lord Hollick had informed the chairman that he could not support its statement of support for Mr Montgomery in full . |
| 11 | The board says it needs such a store in any case in the 1990s because there may be a shortage of reprocessing capacity at British Nuclear Fuels ' Sellafield plant ( New Scientist , 3 February , p 289 ) . |
| 12 | The interim dividend is being held at 4p , and the board says it expects to keep the final dividend , and therefore the total , unchanged at 6p . |
| 13 | The board says it expects to hold the total dividend for the year to April at 8.3p , and the shares fell 12p to 288p on the cash-call news . |
| 14 | Cos it selects anything that it touches right and cos it 's inside the board outline it thinks it 's touching the board outline |
| 15 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 16 | An auxiliary , therefore , does not evoke a separate event from that expressed by the verb form it accompanies , but merely denotes the way the latter 's event is conceived , the point of view from which the speaker regards it . |
| 17 | Keegan knew his side would face Barnsley 's stifling three-man central-defensive formation , yet the attempts to counter it bordered on the banal . |
| 18 | We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’ |
| 19 | It would be sitting at the pictures if I could have the money to do it fill time . |
| 20 | The Albert Dock was constructed in 1881 ; extending from the Victoria Dock it completed a water channel across the whole of the southern promontory . |
| 21 | Tulip expects the reorganisation measures it has implemented will trim its costs significantly , with 92 of the 420 Dutch staff being laid off . |
| 22 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 23 | The contracts typically say that the decision of the expert is to be final and binding , and that is what the courts say it has to be , in the absence of fraud , partiality or mistake . |
| 24 | The snake makes it wriggle so that the apparently disembodied filament appears to be some kind of succulent worm . |
| 25 | I 'm glad the referendum makes it look like things are going to be solved , but it 's still too early . |
| 26 | In the epigram it is ‘ the citadel of Ilium taken ’ , and Pausanias calls it ‘ Troy taken and the departure of the Greeks ’ ; and so the description shows it to have been — not the night of terror but the morning after . |
| 27 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 28 | Too early : Mr Clinton 's May was not quite the disaster the sketch makes it seem . |
| 29 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the Vatican said it had accepted an unprecedented Chinese invitation to send a top official to Peking to attend a sports ceremony this weekend and meet government officials . |