Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Street on Torts puts it , the basis of this authority and the defence it affords to torts such as false imprisonment ‘ is the need to maintain order in the particular organisation responsible for the training of the child ’ ; parental wishes would merely be factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a punishment was reasonable . |
| 2 | The boundary-maintaining function , as stated by Erikson , says that crime and the response it evokes provide the essential function of defining and maintaining the moral boundaries of society . |
| 3 | When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit . |
| 4 | The Students ' Union is supported financially by a grant from the University and by the income it generates itself through commercial services . |
| 5 | The Students ' Union is supported financially by a grant from the University and by the income it generates itself through commercial services . |
| 6 | A big attraction of the West Country for many second home owners is the opportunity it offers for waterside living . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's only one good thing about that society , ’ says Howard , ‘ and that 's the opportunity it offers you to reject it . ’ |
| 8 | The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward . |
| 9 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 10 | The key advantage of membership of HIAN is the opportunity it provides for international networking . |
| 11 | The key advantage of membership of HIAN is the opportunity it provides for international networking . |
| 12 | The Region 's policy of positive discrimination is impressive and commendable for the opportunity it provides for the provision of education in deprived areas . |
| 13 | It may be that , for them , the attraction of SSE in general and of this scheme in particular lies in the opportunity it appears to offer for them to take part in decisions about school policy . |
| 14 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 15 | And what has made his own life in this society so deeply pleasurable ( as he now sees , looking back on it ) is the difficulty of it , the opportunity it has offered to strive and overcome . |
| 16 | A feature of the role has been the opportunity it has provided for closer liaison between the Catholic Education Commission and the Department of Education . |
| 17 | One of the little pleasures of life in Downing Street is the opportunity it affords to dish out baubles of one kind or another . |
| 18 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |
| 19 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 20 | In a few species such recognition may be inborn , but in the majority it has to be learned by experience . |
| 21 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 22 | They will pay an extra £1,000 to repair the boiler it breaks down . |
| 23 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 24 | Universities are commonly asked odd questions , such as why bananas are yellow , how hedgehogs mate , and why water goes in the direction it does down the plughole . |
| 25 | Starting from the pole the local vector is carried along the direction it points ( a line of longitude ) to the equator ( A ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And of the direction it has now taken . |
| 28 | Whether a second merger ( in this case meat to meet ) occurs in the community , and the direction it moves in , will be determined not linguistically but socially . |
| 29 | The National Children 's Home wants the government to re-think the provision it makes for young people , increasing benefits for those on training courses and setting up grants for those leaving care . |
| 30 | And the way that the Government has reduced the provision it makes for higher education erm is that it is has so far erm kept us with the same amount of resources while expecting us to take more students . |