Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it does n't say the size of the bathrooms does it ? |
| 2 | I think for er even for upgrades we er the contracts do it sometimes which to me 's wrong cos they are n't engineers |
| 3 | The experts claim it 's not a vintage year , so the spotlight has shone firmly on the models . |
| 4 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 5 | 2 So , we can suggest that the British constitution is what the experts say it is . |
| 6 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 7 | Why not take it down to the firm 's office and let the experts see it for themselves ? |
| 8 | The crowds made it painfully obvious who was the new star of the show the Princess of Wales . |
| 9 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 10 | I have the bruises to prove it . ’ |
| 11 | The flyers claim it 's all for the disheartened clubber ; judging by the grins on the wall-clinging buddhas , faith is being restored . |
| 12 | Mr. Justice Taylor 's report following his inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster commented on the cost of policing and stated : ’ The temptation to the clubs to leave it all to the police is stronger if they are not required to make a realistic payment for police services . ’ |
| 13 | The mantri looked it up and down from the doorway without saying a word . |
| 14 | ‘ When the product trades in the futures market it can be regulated by the CFTC , ’ suggested Mr Grundfest . |
| 15 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 16 | Derrick Evans is Roland Rat with pecs appeal — and the housewives love 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 | The problems that arise from the development of a new crop on a research station and the attempts to recreate it in economically and environmentally diverse farms outside can in this way be avoided ( CIMMYT 1980 , Biggs , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Now that he 's gone , there will be the usual hypocritical outpouring of support , and ministers will join in the attempts to blame it all on nasty tabloid newspapers . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 22 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
| 23 | Everyone knows the Reds destroyed it . ’ |
| 24 | The courts made it very clear that they equated the interests of the state with the interests of the government then in power . |
| 25 | If we ask where that power comes from , the answer is broadly that Parliament claimed it and the courts recognised it . |
| 26 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 27 | If the principle does exist that tax paid on a demand from the Crown when the tax was the subject of an ultra vires demand can be recovered as money had and received then , in my view , it is for the courts to declare it . |
| 28 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 29 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 30 | No statutory formula has been found that can make a provision judge-proof , in the sense of inducing the courts to accept it as excluding all opportunity for review , not even providing that a decision ‘ shall not be called in question in any court of law ’ . |