Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now go and have a look in the hall it looks beautiful ! |
| 2 | However , since the notion of a continuum persists in the literature it warrants some further discussion . |
| 3 | In one the cat is shot , while in the other it remains alive . |
| 4 | The Ridgery was clay on chalk ; heavy land difficult to work where it sloped gently towards the east : in the winter it lay sodden and cold , in summer it dried as hard as brick and there were cracks in it . |
| 5 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 6 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 7 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 8 | In the event it proved possible to release some of these funds as the proportional receipt of subscriptions improved later in the year . |
| 9 | In the event it proved impossible for the appeal committee which re-heard the case after the court 's ruling to find prejudice . |
| 10 | On paper this hardly looks a version competitive with those listed above ; in the event it has much to offer , which only shows how dangerous preconceptions can be . |
| 11 | If they were implicated in the cover-up it seemed inconceivable that the President had been unaware of what was going on . |
| 12 | And even though that colour is n't really in the tile it looks better . |
| 13 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 14 | Halliday 's analysis is revealing in the way it relates precise linguistic observation to literary effect . |
| 15 | In the way it lays bare dark emotional rumblings normally concealed beneath the constraints of village life , Went the Day Well ? suggests Cavalcanti had learned as much from the Surrealists he worked with in Paris as from Britain 's documentarists . |
| 16 | Assuming that each source wishes to minimize its total costs under the emission charges system , each would blend control expenditure ( to reduce its emissions and thus its emission charge liability ) and emission charges ( on those units of pollutants emitted after control ) in the way it finds cheapest . |
| 17 | And in the boot it had one of these things . |
| 18 | At a certain stage in the analysis it becomes necessary not only to define each entity but also to record the relevant attributes of each entity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But in the end it shows total respect for the people who fought and died . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In 1758 he published a comprehensive pamphlet on this industry , and when later reproduced in the Dictionary it occupied seven pages of text and a further seven of illustration . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , during the course of the interviews and our con-versations with friends and contacts in the profession it became apparent that the local law society 's publicly stated reason for the promotion of the scheme provided only a partial explanation of its inception . |
| 25 | Well , well well in the book it said that , that , that that er this Gordon 's er is , he 's er , he 's trying to do a Truro . |
| 26 | In the process it invented mass entertainment , the 10-lane freeway and smog . |
| 27 | With its removeable roof stored in the roof it looked great , but the word from Pininfarina and General Motors Europe was not promising . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 30 | Suppose that in the future it becomes possible to predict others ' behaviour more efficiently by observation and computation than by the always hazardous venture of trying to fathom the mysteries of the human heart . |