Example sentences of "it the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond it the mountains of the Ta Pa Shan formed faint shapes in the distance . |
| 2 | Is it the telephone ? |
| 3 | She had been a message , she told me , and was it the telephone ? |
| 4 | But the picture can be modified if we insert into it the concept of a primeval Natural Man , who lacks the corrupting appurtenances of modern civilization , and is , on that account , closer to Paradise than ourselves . |
| 5 | And as she lay in bed listening , was it the wartime sky which stretched above her head ? |
| 6 | Did Lower Axe dream in the soft evening sunshine of nineteen ninety two , or was it the wartime village that was out there now , canopied by the dangerous skies of nineteen forty ? |
| 7 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 8 | And to think that in the West they merely call it the Wall . |
| 9 | Every time I thought I 'd got the hang of it the service changed . |
| 10 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 11 | I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then . |
| 12 | Can you advise me how to stop stem rot on Water Wisteria , or is it the nibbling of the Platies and Swords that cause this ? |
| 13 | Now Saturday night in Street , we used to call it the waits , Street waits , every Saturday night . |
| 14 | Placed next to each other , the documents are both a territorial and a political contradiction ; one is proof of the existence of Israel , the other carries with it the dream of Palestine . |
| 15 | Even this gesture , a mercenary movement , had about it the lilt of broken syllables . |
| 16 | That 's it the lever locks yes . |
| 17 | The focus of the design was the decorative bar and its back display area , whose strong lighting made it the centrepiece of the pub . |
| 18 | ‘ We call it the Gate of Peace now , ’ Erika said . |
| 19 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 20 | Troops were also reported to have blocked about 2,000 Gamsakhurdia supporters who were preparing to march on Kutaisi to proclaim it the capital of Georgia . |
| 21 | In West Yorkshire to the South we have similar problems of inner city decline and there as we understand it the authorities wish to cater for their housing needs . |
| 22 | Exactly , we may make it the performance evaluation and the documentation attached to it that provides you your training record . |
| 23 | ICI disposal : Imperial Chemical Industries has sold its US over-the-counter drugs business in a $450m ( £285m ) deal with Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals , which also gives it the rights to Merck 's Elavil anti-depressant drug . |
| 24 | The stone face , lively and young as it was , had a certainty about it the boy could not claim as yet . |
| 25 | So he 's shouting it the boy like . |
| 26 | Littlewoods ' 25% would give it the size to be able to rival Great Universal Stores , the clear market leader on 40% . |
| 27 | But w was it , was it the size of China that made this necessary ? |
| 28 | Leopold 's fear , on the other hand , was that Mozart might lose the appointment in Salzburg and with it the chance to begin paying off the debts . |
| 29 | The double X gives it the chance to be red and black , while the Y gives it male characteristics . |
| 30 | Without any doubt ZIMBABWE captain Andy Ferreira 's men must count themselves unlucky to have missed the semi-finals , and with it the chance of appearing in the World Cup tournament in Scotland . |