Example sentences of "the [noun] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Compared with Burton 's or that of Sir John Gell [ q.v. ] for 1659 his diary is somewhat slight , but as the only internal account and commentary on the debates it has unique value . |
| 32 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 33 | ‘ The catering industry is unique in the challenges it offers young people and every effort must be made to ensure that it plays a central role in careers advice , ’ he said . |
| 34 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 35 | For the importer it provides short-term finance , pending the re-sale of the goods in his domestic market . |
| 36 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 37 | It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 . |
| 38 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 39 | The first building so adorned which we know of is the Siphnian treasury , which is Ionic in character though it lacks the typical capitals , since instead of columns in the porch it had two Caryatids : supports in the form of girls , here canonical korai of immense elaboration . |
| 40 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 41 | If there is any money in the account it earns some interest , if it goes into the red you pay some interest . |
| 42 | In corridors and classrooms throughout the county it bears silent witness to the perception of the man who formed it , to his generous breadth of outlook and to his integrity . |
| 43 | For the distinctions a conception draws between legal rights and other forms of rights and between legal arguments and other forms of argument , signal the character and limits of the justification it believes political decisions provide for state coercion . |
| 44 | The thickness of this unit is normally about 50 m around the margin of the basin , decreasing to 5 m or less in more central parts ( Fig. 4a ) , but locally in Poland and the U.K. it reaches 100–120 m . |
| 45 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 46 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 47 | But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died . |
| 48 | With the micro-computers it meant different software , different machines ( at a higher price ) and different sales methods : rather large changes . |
| 49 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 50 | Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English . |
| 51 | She 's angry at the way it portrays handicapped people , and has helped organise a blockade of a television studio . |
| 52 | Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript . |
| 53 | ( In fact , Mr Duroselle seems almost to believe that the worst aspect of colonialism was the way it divided European nations that might otherwise have come together . ) |
| 54 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 55 | Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal . |
| 56 | The way it works these days is just so divorced from everything we 're familiar with back home . |
| 57 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |
| 58 | This outlook emboldened Iran to repudiate the military provisions of the 1921 Soviet-Persian Treaty at the time it abrogated Iranian membership in CENTO . |
| 59 | With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers . |
| 60 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |