Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 2 | In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) . |
| 3 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |
| 4 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 5 | This raises another spectre : as palladium is the key , what power brokerage will it give the countries which have it as a natural mineral resource — USSR and South Africa ? |
| 6 | Citizenship presumably had certain advantages which made it worth a man 's while taking it up , but in a period of increasing civic oligarchy one may wonder how greatly these outweighed the disadvantages . |
| 7 | Thus , despite the development since the 1970s of a whole plethora of " critical " and " theoretical " approaches to literature , English studies remained ( and remains still ) radically inconceivable without those texts which authorize it as an area of English and literary study . |
| 8 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 9 | Fishing is also a sport , although the chaps who do it for a livelihood in trawlers are not included in the sporting fraternity . |
| 10 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 11 | So er if you y'know do the desired behaviour , you collect so many vouchers and er y'know when you 've got ten vouchers you exchange it for a television or something like that , but there 's a whole range of things of that nature . |
| 12 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 13 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 14 | But the plan has drawn criticism from the Palestinians ' Arab peace talks partners , who accuse Arafat of lack of consultation , and from hardline Palestinian groups who denounce it as a sell-out . |
| 15 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 16 | From Eastern Europe the herb spread to Scandinavia , and it was probably Scandinavian immigrants who introduced it to the USA . |
| 17 | When he tore off people 's buttons or sprinkled their trousers he did it in a spirit of the purest amity . |
| 18 | Among the liberal Russian press , Moskovskiye novosti of July 19 commented that " the SC has been given powers which raise it above the government " ; and Kommersant also compared the newly empowered SC to the former communist party politburo , because of its potential power , its secrecy and its non-accountability . |
| 19 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 20 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 21 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 22 | Although Abadia was respected by the lower ranks , his appointment was understood to have caused widespread resentment amongst senior officers who interpreted it as a breach of the seniority rule , hitherto strictly adhered to . |
| 23 | The oil spilt from the Braer was unusually light and toxic , and this , combined with fierce storms which mixed it into the seawater and caused it combine to form clumps with fine particles churned up by the waves , meant that rather than floating to the surface , as is normal with spilt crude oil , it was carried by ocean currents far from the spill site and later redeposited in deep " sumps " on the seabed . |
| 24 | Indeed , the divisions within the class are as striking as the features which separate it from the middle class . |
| 25 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 26 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 28 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 29 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 30 | Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) . |