Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 4 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 5 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 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 | For the importer it provides short-term finance , pending the re-sale of the goods in his domestic market . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died . |
| 11 | She 's angry at the way it portrays handicapped people , and has helped organise a blockade of a television studio . |
| 12 | Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript . |