Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma .
2 The Rules of the Supreme Court make no specific provision for a contemnor being served with a copy of the committal order , but as I have mentioned an instruction has been issued by the Clerk of the Rules with the approval of the President of the Family Division which makes it the duty of the applicant 's solicitor to serve the committal order , but does not require personal service .
3 There is published evidence that P cepacia is transmissible , directly or indirectly , between individuals , and that in a proportion who acquire it the infection is associated with rapid deterioration or death , even when they were previously in good health and clinically stable .
4 Well the rubber 's a , well , you call it a teatle you call it a teatle it 's a rubber .
5 So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test .
6 Despite minor errors the book has a style and a use of simile which make it a pleasure to read .
7 If we are misled by our grammar into thinking that ‘ I expect such-and-such ’ is a report of a mental process then there will seem to be a problem : ‘ What is it about a mental process which makes it an expectation of such-and-such ?
8 Holland is renowned as the cyclist-friendly country with specially designed cycle lanes and paths , beautiful flat countryside and mild climate which makes it no surprise that there are almost as many bicycles in Holland as there are people .
9 He heard the calm voice , but could feel the trembling body which gave it the lie .
10 From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises .
11 It was a sharp strike which made it a dream return to his native North East following his £175,000 move to Merseyside in November 1991 .
12 The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered .
13 Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill .
14 Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer .
15 Only a year earlier , Wilson himself had denounced the legislation which made it a member .
16 Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea .
17 Barristers and solicitors together with certificated notaries ( who are normally also solicitors ) and licensed conveyancers enjoy a statutory monopoly which makes it an offence for any other persons to draw up or prepare documents connected with the transfer of title to property for payment .
18 It had a long colonial veranda and a high cupola , while the terminus of the railway , Tank Road Station at the docks , had a tower which made it an aid to ships navigating the harbour .
19 In pre-war days this fleet continued to irritate the Japanese who considered it a threat .
20 That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room .
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22 For the North African church had long clung to its own traditions of autonomy with a tenacity which made it a power with which the emperors and popes had to reckon .
23 About 85pc of the company 's product is sold overseas , a feat which won it the Queen 's Award for Export two years ago .
24 Perched high above the famous White Cliffs , this vast fortress commands the shortest Channel crossing to the Continent — a strategic position which earned it the title ‘ The Key of England ’ .
25 It 's time I called it a day .
26 There are compact , slow-growing forms of nearly all our native trees , but though these are always my first option I consider it a mistake to limit planting choice to our indigenous flora .
27 So , the fact that it 's guaranteed that , we 've actually built that in by design which makes it a feature .
28 Well this boat 's fitted with the race pack which gives it a lot of the extra controls that you 'd expect on a larger sail boat .
29 Time you called it a day . ’
30 By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing .
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