Example sentences of "the [noun] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opting out of a policy which costs each family of four over £1,000 a year would certainly do much to help the farming industry regain the esteem it once enjoyed with the general public . |
| 2 | The village is not quite the paradise it once was . |
| 3 | This is why they do not , if they can possibly avoid it , pay the taxes the state can legitimately call for , obey the signs it reasonably puts up in the streets , and so on . |
| 4 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 5 | From the preface it also appears that the design of the book is to assist the reader who is concerned with a specific problem and who ‘ has read carefully and understood ( so far as the draftsmanship will permit him to understand ) the clause on which he requires guidance . |
| 6 | The present disc was made with help from the Delius Trust and certainly justifies the faith it always had in Norman Del Mar . |
| 7 | The drug it most closely resembles is PCP , an animal tranquilliser . |
| 8 | However , despite the mortality of L3 on the pasture it now seems that many survive in the soil for at least another year and on occasion appear to migrate on to the herbage . |
| 9 | Although it grows to some 20cm in the wild it rarely achieves even half that size in the aquarium . |
| 10 | The auricular surface ( articulating with the ilium ) is limited to the first and second sacral vertebrae in the female , but in the male it often extends to the middle of the third vertebra . |
| 11 | While not so attractive as the male it still shows the red stripes down the side and a hint of the red spots in the caudal peduncle . |
| 12 | In Dundee 's Northern College , the Values Education Project developed a methodology through which a school could identify the values it already holds and set targets to grow from there . |
| 13 | The energy required to remove the electron depends only on the energy of the level it originally occupied relative to that of an unbound electron , so photoelectron spectra are in principle much simpler than electronic excitation spectra . |
| 14 | Between 1950 and 1975 both Britain and Holland had similar increases in crime levels , but whilst the prison population in England and Wales doubled , in the Netherlands it more than halved . |
| 15 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 16 | For all the good it ever did for your sons . |
| 17 | If the industry can answer ‘ yes ’ to these and similar questions about other sectors of the industry it probably makes sense to take a hard look at what is happening in New Zealand and to then advocate some radical thinking in both London and Brussels . |
| 18 | While , as has been suggested ( 21 ) , formal training courses may not reduce the tendency for young people to leave the industry it nonetheless has the potential to create a workforce more receptive to new ideas . |
| 19 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 20 | It 's just I think , when there 's a couch and there 's white tissues over the couch it probably can look a little bit clinical . |
| 21 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 22 | ‘ When I first saw the head in the font it just looked familiar — I could n't sort out why . |
| 23 | Engine stroke has an effect on torque but is n't the yardstick it once was . |
| 24 | Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence . |
| 25 | The great sides always capitalise on moments of good fortune and when Marty Roebuck made a hash of a simple penalty four minutes from the break it somehow ended up as a try . |
| 26 | Watch the buoy drifting westwards just north of the equator , as it approaches one of the moorings it suddenly changes direction with the current . |
| 27 | The latter is fascinating , especially in the glimpses it occasionally gives of the general principles and priorities which informed MI5 's work , and the unease these aroused in some quarters . |
| 28 | Easy-to-run homes and a host of electrical aids mean that heavy housework does not take the toll it once did . |
| 29 | Not to mention the toll it inevitably takes on our looks ! |
| 30 | You know , water is wet and , even when you change it into , and you freeze it , you know , you hold the ice it still is wet when you heat it up and it 's steam it 's still wet ! |