Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 2 | Coleridge told Estlin that his heart ‘ yearned toward the ministry ’ , and he was soon able to convince himself that even his unorthodox beliefs might not be a major obstacle to his acceptance of the post , and the income it would guarantee . |
| 3 | Bill Breakell , the national park 's tourism officer , said : ‘ If car congestion continues to grow in some parts of the park it may prove necessary to consider car free zones with access only by bus , foot or cycle . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed given the opportunity it might be better for someone publishing obscene or indecent literature to be charged under one piece of legislation rather than another , since one might permit more or better defences . |
| 5 | The government , already facing labour unrest and mounting inflation , needs all the sympathy it can get , especially if as some believe , it intends calling an early general election . |
| 6 | The alternative approach of defining one or more new registers was rejected because of the complexity it would have added to an already complex set of algorithms . |
| 7 | It 's light enough to carry around , tipping the scales at just under 5lbs , but with the help of large rubber pads on the base it should stay put on stage . |
| 8 | William Shenstone , writing forty years earlier , explains in more realistic terms that the privileged interest themselves in the cottage ‘ partly on account of the variety it may introduce ; on account of the tranquillity that seems to reign there ; and perhaps , ( I am somewhat afraid ) on account of the pride of human nature ’ . |
| 9 | Although the Bank of England does not deal directly in the parallel markets and does not provide ‘ last resort ’ lending facilities , it nevertheless closely monitors the various money market rates of interest and if necessary seeks to influence them , either by its dealings in the discount market or by ‘ indicating ’ the direction it would like to see interest rates move . |
| 10 | The water maze offers a number of advantages for the study of spatial learning in that within the tank the animal is quite unconstrained as to the direction it may take , though this must be balanced against the fact that the swimming task is somewhat stressful and the animal is learning how to reach a relatively precarious goal . |
| 11 | There is a wide consensus among medical educators and students about the need for change and the direction it should take , and there are plenty of examples from Britain and elsewhere that change is possible and can be effective . |
| 12 | If any party on the management committee does n't like the split it will five member it back through the whole structure to this county council and we shall have proceeded no further . |
| 13 | Complain that the Committee is not getting the coverage it ought to have for the work it 's doing . |
| 14 | Saturation coverage of three-and-a-half weeks of intense campaigning may have given way to non-stop reports of a complicated new chess game — as each main party , neither with an overall majority , manoeuvres to secure the support it will need to form the next Government . |
| 15 | Science is entitled to all the support it can get , to all it needs . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the authority of an ecumenical Council , more representative of the whole world than any previous Council , working responsibly and prayerfully across four years with all the support it could get from the ablest theologians , is clearly in human and ecclesial terms as considerable as can be . |
| 17 | The latter is established partly because of the expertise it can develop , and this expertise is not related solely to fact finding . |
| 18 | With the daggerboard retracted. the board can be steered solely by weight movements and behaves like a surfboard , water-ski or skateboard , in that if you weight one side of the board it will turn in that direction . |
| 19 | ‘ In fairness to the board it must be emphasised that it is not being unco-operative . |
| 20 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 21 | I did not want Jean-Claude to think I thought of his work only in terms of the money it might earn . |
| 22 | But the point that Anna failed to grasp was that without the money it would never have occurred to him to marry her . |
| 23 | ‘ I know that the National Health has n't got the money it would like but when it 's so important , I think it should be done . |
| 24 | One Opposition MP , whose constituency includes Cowley , is calling on Aerospace to invest in car-making the money it would have spent on paying back the Government . |
| 25 | Budd reckons it was a ’ monumental success ’ , allowing the company to develop a fully-computerised design and manufacturing system essential to future competitiveness not to mention the money it will make on the Thunderbird contract itself . |
| 26 | When the government spends the money it will be redeposited in banks . |
| 27 | Well yeah but think of the chaos it would cause , swapping over |
| 28 | ooh think of the chaos it would cause |
| 29 | Once the House is seised of the case it may exercise ‘ any powers of the Court of Appeal . ’ |
| 30 | If this is the case it might be much more effective to scrap the mailing and to talk personally to the journalists concerned . |