Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Prince missed it two years ago with the same back trouble . |
2 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
3 | The eyes have it Many women write to us complaining that they have puffy eyes . |
4 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
5 | Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility . |
6 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
7 | It 's as the sun hits it this side . |
8 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
9 | Of the twins , one contracted the condition when 12 years old while the other developed it 36 years later . |
10 | In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability . |
11 | KEEGAN 'S GLEE GUNS : Micky Quinn points the way to the Premier League for Newcastle — and the boss also has plenty to celebrate as the Geordies make it eight wins out of eight . |
12 | ‘ I doubt if the whiting sees it that way , ’ grunted Rose . |
13 | Secondly , why is there imprisonment in England and Wales when the Government abolished it four years ago in Scotland ? |
14 | He was wearing a wetsuit and lifejacket but seawater in the river made it icy cold and he was gasping with exhaustion as he was pulled out , suffering from a shoulder injury . |
15 | The Government must now seek ways of strengthening the Union to ensure it continuing vitality , while showing appropriate sensitivity to the nationalistic sentiments stirred up by this election . |
16 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
17 | The police announced it this morning . ’ |
18 | She was jealous of Arabella , and the baby on the way made it ten times worse . |
19 | Use of the section is purely optional and even if the company adopts it each member must be sent copies of the full accounts and reports if he wants to receive them . |
20 | Boswell measured the water journey from Glenelg as twelve miles ; the boatman called it six miles , confusing old logical Johnson with the assertion that a mile on the land equated to two on the sea . |
21 | So the myth has it that Ms or Mr Trim very carefully calculates how much food ( or how many calories ) to forgo in order to afford an occasional large meal ( on holiday or at Christmas for example ) . |
22 | While these results do not argue strongly for the maternal depletion theory , the findings give it moderate support , attesting to a probable differential in fetal viability with the elapse of varying periods between pregnancies or births . |
23 | Maldon won twice at the weekend to make it five wins out of five , while Sudbury have won four out of four so far . |
24 | The consensus has it that economics will be the key stick with which the CEGB 's opponents , and perhaps even a few of its friends , will beat the board . |
25 | So please keep our friendship as strong as ever , though I am losing the power to give it outward expression . |
26 | The double X gives it the chance to be red and black , while the Y gives it male characteristics . |
27 | Now is the time to give it those tools . |
28 | Lord Finlay implied that the trust mechanism could be adapted for use in international law , whereby a new State could be a beneficiary of rights contained in an agreement between other States which are bound by the agreement to accord it those rights . |