Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were left to itself the House of Commons could produce independent members in a way that would make the King 's Government impossible since it could refuse to grant the money needed to carry out his will . |
| 2 | It is based on what the speaker wants to announce as his/her starting point and what s/he goes on to say about it . |
| 3 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |
| 4 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 5 | It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’ |