Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A. ingolfiana can be distinguished from other amphiurid genera and certain ophiurinids , to which it bears a superficial resemblance because of the superficial second oral tentacle pore , by the scaling of the disk , the arrangement of the oral plates , the lack of tentacle scales and the erect arm spines . |
2 | The most interesting feature of this study , however , is the way in which it compared the preferred jobs of school-leavers with those obtained , revealing the gap between aspirations and reality . |
3 | The term is now used more commonly in a broad sense in which it connotes a looser grouping of individuals , each exercising power and united by one or more of a number of features such as wealth , social origins or pre-eminence in achievement in a particular field . |
4 | The pain , which was due to the pressure of the cancer on a nerve , was entirely relieved by the shrinking of the growth , to the extent at which it caused no further suffering . |
5 | ‘ Phoenixa ’ is EMI 's culling from the old Pye Nixa catalogue , which it acquired a few years ago and launched with a contribution from each record sold to the environmental music charity ‘ Music for the World ’ . |
6 | Relations between Slovenia and Serbia deteriorated sharply during early July , following the publication on July 2 of a formal declaration by the Slovenian Assembly in which it proclaimed the full sovereignty of the Slovenian republic . |
7 | Under the Acts of Parliament ( Commencement ) Act 1793 , an Act comes into force on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent unless otherwise provided , with effect from the last moment of the previous day . |
8 | The probable evolution of Hurst Castle Spit is shown in Fig. 8.26 , from which it can be seen that , with the wearing back of the coast from A to C , the spit will occupy successively the positions AA' , BB' and CC' , the last being its present position , in which it preserves the recurved ends of former stages . |
9 | For our purposes , however , no harm will be done if we distinguish two uses of ‘ I believe that … ’ . one in which it expresses the tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , the other in which it expresses the belief or awareness that the speaker has the belief . |
10 | The size of the compulsory core of a discipline might tell us something about the strength of its identity , and the extent to which it constitutes an organic whole or , to use a common expression , ‘ seamless web ’ . |
11 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
12 | This is another of those methodological issues which can quickly rise to the point at which it becomes a major issue of principle , and usually a matter of philosophical principle at that . |
13 | Thus , AEA is now beginning to contemplate a future in which it becomes an independent business , and its management is excited by the prospect . |
14 | the fish uses this to detect changes in water pressure , from which it gets a greater appreciation of sound and its position in the water . |
15 | Perhaps the human race is beset by problems which it lacks the moral capital to resolve . |
16 | But no criteria are sufficient actually to explain this distinction , and in order to elucidate its meaning it is necessary to consider it in connection with certain modes of experiencing with which it forms a structural unity . |
17 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
18 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
19 | Inaugurating the new boards of the affected banks on July 13 , Falae announced that the government planned to privatize all the banks in which it had a controlling interest , in line with the government 's policy of divesting itself of state holdings . |
20 | Once the field-worker was categorized as conforming to their typification of a ‘ good ’ Catholic ( the meaning of which we will outline elsewhere ) , then her religion was no longer as important as it appears at first sight , although the extent to which it had a residual effect is impossible to estimate . |
21 | Hungary had in late January limited the renewal of export licences for sales to the Soviet Union ( with which it had a marked trade surplus ) and pursued its aim of exporting more to the West for hard currency . |
22 | For much of its history psychobiology has been a subject ahead of its time , often asking questions for which it had no meaningful answers . |
23 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
24 | Nothing was more spiritual than music , but the characteristic form in which it entered the bourgeois home was the piano , an exceedingly large , elaborate and expensive apparatus , even when reduced , for the benefit of a more modest stratum aspiring to true bourgeois values , to the more manageable dimensions of the upright ( pianino ) . |
25 | It represents a relatively small ( but important ) area of zeolite science for which it provides a useful survey and compilation of data . |
26 | Prefabricated fibreglass pools , pool-liners and traditional concrete can all yield a first-class formal water feature , for this aspect of the design merely affects the surface , the shape that the pool takes and , to a lesser extent , the manner in which it adjoins the surrounding garden . |
27 | In April 1990 the Guardian carried a leader in which it described the ideal citizen as conjured up by Mr Hurd as ‘ active but elusive ’ : ‘ Apart from a minor sighting in a speech by John MacGregor , the Active Citizen has vanished from public debate as if he had never been . ’ |
28 | At the end of the war , because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District , the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors , the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision . |
29 | The external demands on government are such that it can often act only as arbiter between competing demands and respond , under guidance from civil servants , to international events and trends over which it has no direct influence . |
30 | The blue-flowered garden species of this genus ( N. x faassenii ) , also called catmint , is highly decorative , with its grey leaves and long-lasting flower spikes , but N. cataria is the true herb , of little known but considerable medical use , for which it has a long history , back to Gerard 's day and earlier , though it is not so used nowadays . |