Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it gets into the predator 's nose it can injure the tissues there and if it enters the mouth it causes violent vomiting . |
| 2 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 3 | In the process it invented mass entertainment , the 10-lane freeway and smog . |
| 4 | From the outside it looks uninhabited facing on to the icy , wind-ravaged sidewalks as anonymously as any of the disused warehouse and industrial buildings that litter the once-thriving district . |
| 5 | At least at the beginning it lacked social support , usually freely available in the schools from which secondees came . |
| 6 | Well , you could do , if , particularly if you had one of our meters , but what , what happens , as sound goes through the air it causes small pressure fluctuations , and our meter measures the size of these , and it gives a reading on a scale in units which we call decibels . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For the importer it provides short-term finance , pending the re-sale of the goods in his domestic market . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This outlook emboldened Iran to repudiate the military provisions of the 1921 Soviet-Persian Treaty at the time it abrogated Iranian membership in CENTO . |