Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes to work , and when he arrives he gets it working ; when he leaves , at the end of the day , it sleeps until the next morning . |
| 2 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 3 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 4 | Once , twice , smash , in it goes on the third kick . |
| 5 | On approaching , from some distance off , the first greeting is given by the elegant shape of a belfry emerging from the surrounding greenery ; it belongs to the 17th century church of Santa Maria graced by the renowned painting of the Virgin by Pier Francesco Fiorentino . |
| 6 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 7 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 8 | Instead of resting on its fundraising laurels , it has for the second year turned to race organising as a means of generating essential revenue . |
| 9 | The dream itself has no meaning ; the effect it has on the second person tells a great deal about that person . |
| 10 | It ships in the third quarter . |
| 11 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 12 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 13 | For a start , there 's a whole team of people who work to make sure it happens in the first place . |
| 14 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 15 | It ends on the first closing date or , if later , the date when the offer becomes or is declared unconditional as to acceptances or lapses . |
| 16 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 17 | It includes for the first time a modest amount of money for social science research , and emphasizes closer ties to international research laboratories such as CERN , the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva , and EMBL , the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg , as well as closer cooperation with national research organizations . |
| 18 | However as far as the basic strategy is concerned of this particular alteration , it includes for the first time , conversions . |
| 19 | When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top . |
| 20 | It guesses in the fourth quarter . |
| 21 | Sales of its Unix products will , for instance , outstrip revenues from the DEC versions that it markets over the next year or so , it reckons . |
| 22 | Although Jacques retained his title of ‘ flutte du Roi ’ until his death ( it appears on the first page of his inventory , 1763 ) , this provides no clear indication of when he actually stopped performing , since musicians retained titles as property . |
| 23 | ’ But it appears from the fourth plea that that marriage had already been agreed on , and that the testator knew it . |
| 24 | Indeed , if there is a zero eigenvalue , it appears in the first transformation , i.e. in B. It follows that shifting ( see 2.7.4 ) can be used with great advantage to accelerate convergence . |
| 25 | In the word de'mocracy , the accent is on the second syllable ; in demo'cratic it shifts to the third syllable . |
| 26 | It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming . |
| 27 | It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 28 | It follows from the second law of thermodynamics that , for spontaneous processes . |
| 29 | It follows from the last paragraph that there are at least two different ways of studying a community 's use of language and attitudes towards it . |
| 30 | The event , which is set for Sunday May 6th has extra significance this year , as it coincides with the 20th anniversary of the United States ' twentieth tactical fighter wing being based in Oxfordshire , and master sergeant Bill Fonten is predicting even more crowds will turn up for the day when the U S base throws open its doors . |