Example sentences of "the [noun] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the patent ( Us 235 199 ) , when the chopped light beam was focused onto the diaphragm it created sympathetic movements which could be heard as sound . |
| 2 | It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges . |
| 3 | However , USL finds the royalties it pays third parties for using their technology , particularly those sent to Microsoft Corp for its Xenix functionality and Sun Microsystems Inc for its BSD functionality , on the increase and likely to rise further . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 6 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 7 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers . |
| 10 | From the top it provides magnificent views of the city 's famous skyline . |
| 11 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 12 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 13 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 16 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 | Published at the beginning of the century it comprises 10 volumes , although only the first eight have been translated into English . |
| 22 | Or at least with the way it converts internal formats into PostScript . |
| 23 | ( In fact , Mr Duroselle seems almost to believe that the worst aspect of colonialism was the way it divided European nations that might otherwise have come together . ) |
| 24 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 25 | The way it works these days is just so divorced from everything we 're familiar with back home . |
| 26 | With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | CDC finished its end of year with a net loss of $134.0m after a $129.8m restructuring charge associated with the spin-out from Ceridian Corp last year ( UX No 387 ) , although in the two quarters following the spinout it recorded net earnings of $10.2m on revenues of $266.6m . |
| 29 | UPS is one of the biggest van operators in the U.S. It runs 60,000 vans which are built by the company . |