Example sentences of "of the [noun] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 2 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 3 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 4 | The Council has further recognised that the nature of the services it provides places particular groups of employees at potential risk from clients and/or their families etc . |
| 5 | It has a black canopy over the front and it says Health and Beauty Salon , with a telephone number and at the side of the door it says Gloria M. |
| 6 | Recollection of the day it visited Millbrook is especially spine-chilling . |
| 7 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 8 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 9 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 10 | The drugs giant has been rocked by talk that it could be expelled from the FTSE because of the way it pays dividends . |
| 11 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 12 | One of the reasons it thinks COSE is interested in its participation is some key technology that DEC has that in its infinite wisdom it has failed to trumpet . |
| 13 | But , melancholy as the deserted and shattered city might seem to a casual visitor , to men out of the line it spelled life . |
| 14 | Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations : |
| 15 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 16 | Also , the aquifer itself is slightly elastic ; the pressure of the groundwater it contains forces apart the mineral grains and increases the volume of the pores slightly . |
| 17 | If the drawing is moved towards the edge of the rectangle it gains weight as a thing , a unit , a shape . |