Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A and the forms as it stands picks up most of the points that we 've just raised . |
| 2 | Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit . |
| 3 | Formerly , the rule permitting recourse to earlier statutes was taken to allow the court to compare the wording of a consolidation Act with the Acts that it superseded , and to conclude that variation of wording indicated a change of meaning . |
| 4 | It goes without saying that professional programme makers turn to the experts when it comes to obtaining authentic props . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'm totally untechnical ; my theory in the studio is ‘ turn the knobs until it sounds good ’ . |
| 6 | Trafalgar resisted restating the accounts since it did not believe it had done anything wrong . |
| 7 | Ratagan took it from her wordlessly and held it in the flames till it had caught . |
| 8 | But although literature is necessarily ideological , its qualities as literature have a distancing effect on the ideologies that it represents , and so allow the reader to become aware of them as ideologies . |
| 9 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |
| 10 | The purchaser should also impose a financial limit on the value of the creditors that it assumes . |
| 11 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 12 | Avoid flailing the vegetation in the gaps in the hedges because it prevents natural regeneration . |
| 13 | This is intended to reflect her costs as ‘ carer ’ of the child(ren) but it seems probable that many people will interpret it as being money for her maintenance . |
| 14 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |
| 15 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
| 16 | That 's the difference between Knightshayes and some of the lovely old seventeenth-century gardens where you have a beautiful garden with no connection with the outside ; is suits the houses but it does n't blend . ’ |
| 17 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 18 | The sores that it produces are usually found on the external surface of the penis in the male , but rarely the site of infection may be inside the urethra , and in these cases recurrent ‘ non-specific urethritis ’ may occur , which is particularly resistant to treatment . |
| 19 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Out of doors , if it is being chased by a rival cat , a dog , or some human enemy , it will try , as always , to scamper up a wall or a tree , using its non-existent claws to cling to the surfaces as it leaps upwards . |
| 21 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 22 | If Mr Yeltsin tries to play by the rules as he moves towards a new constitutional order , he will fail , because parliament can make up the rules as it goes along . |
| 23 | The big , the big advantage Chair , and one of the reasons that it appeals to us to , to go along with Age Concern on this is that , as you know , the area of activity in terms of day centre provision in which they are very active , is one whereby on the current grant mechanisms for community care , and our need to spend eighty five percent in the voluntary and independent sector , whilst they were directly employed by us , we could n't divert a substantial amount of that money in their direction if they wished to develop services . |
| 24 | the policies that it represents , still represents even as amendment . |
| 25 | The Passport Agency deserves our congratulations on the improvements that it has already achieved . |
| 26 | It then works its way back through all the calls until it has completed the final multiplication , when it returns the answer . |
| 27 | To be sure , science has never found meaning in the phenomena that it studies . |
| 28 | I maintain that the principal force of the 1990 Act is the deterrents that it introduced . |
| 29 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 30 | He says it was flicking through the frequencies when it locked onto a call and he recognised the voice as Diana . |