Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the company it means grater profits , but to these men it means more dangerous conditions . |
| 2 | And the judge went on to criticise the RSPCA for the way it gathers evidence . |
| 3 | For the Greek it meant student , pupil or apprentice . |
| 4 | During the afternoon it reaches Forces 5 or 6 , sometimes even seven . |
| 5 | After the service it took time for the galleries to empty . |
| 6 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 7 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 8 | It has a black canopy over the front and it says Health and Beauty Salon , with a telephone number and at the side of the door it says Gloria M. |
| 9 | Recollection of the day it visited Millbrook is especially spine-chilling . |
| 10 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 11 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 12 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 13 | The drugs giant has been rocked by talk that it could be expelled from the FTSE because of the way it pays dividends . |
| 14 | But , melancholy as the deserted and shattered city might seem to a casual visitor , to men out of the line it spelled life . |
| 15 | Also , the aquifer itself is slightly elastic ; the pressure of the groundwater it contains forces apart the mineral grains and increases the volume of the pores slightly . |
| 16 | If the drawing is moved towards the edge of the rectangle it gains weight as a thing , a unit , a shape . |
| 17 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |
| 18 | For him , myth is a concentrated image of the world , which is serious and effective notwithstanding the way it breaches causality by introducing miracles . |
| 19 | Despite a string of appearances from the bench it took Watson more than a year to open his account , finally breaking his duck in the 2-1 second leg win over Spora in Luxembourg in the last round . |
| 20 | Within the business it guaranteed capital , perhaps useful business contacts , and above all reliable managers . |
| 21 | In the meantime it makes sense for the unit to be stored in a plastic bag but I do look forward to the perfectly waterproof receiver being available in due course . |
| 22 | In the meantime it seems patience remains a virtue . |
| 23 | But such dramatic descent to Sheol , the land of the dead they believed to be beneath the earth , could not in any way be expected , and in the story it causes panic . |
| 24 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 25 | Researchers should therefore give more attention to its negative effects on their conduct , especially in the way it requires researchers to make a number of pragmatic compromises which depart from the textbook portrayal of ideal research practice . |
| 26 | It suggests that Microsoft is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour in the way it sells DOS to hardware manufacturers , and in the way it uses its lead in the operating systems business to gain advantages with its apps software . |
| 27 | Perhaps I can say , that what I 'd like to see is N C V O be much more corporate in the way it approaches things , erm , many of you will have seen many of our publications , but , you may not always realise they come from N C V O , sometimes it 's not always easy to see that , you have to search through and , not always find it , and we 've got many different images , so I think it 's important we er get a whole corporate image across . |
| 28 | It is clearly an undergraduate text ; its use lies in the way it introduces discourse stylistics to a primarily conventional undergraduate group . |
| 29 | So should a school like this one equip for the realities of unforgiveness of the world outside , or should it be much more generous in the way it shows forgiveness and can a school be organised so that it does actually reflect Christ 's teaching on forgiveness . |
| 30 | This operator is infrequently used because it is indiscriminate in the way it joins tuples together . |