Example sentences of "the [noun] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the pad 's level with the board it activates the electrical circuit and the game begins . ’ |
| 2 | A B&Q spokesman said last night : ‘ Because our store was the closest to the viaduct it took the full force of the blast and it could well be that we are talking of a complete demolition . |
| 3 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
| 4 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 5 | After food is put into the mouth it takes a few minutes ( usually around five ) even to start having any physical effect in satisfying the hungry body . |
| 6 | In the spring it has a near miraculous effect on snow accumulations . |
| 7 | But in the desert it gives a strange moaning sound , low and sensual , accompanied by the singing of the sand as it skates across itself . |
| 8 | With dolphins on the rampage it seems a good idea to spend as much time as possible out of the water . |
| 9 | The stone they used to build Aberdeen may be built for endurance rather than seduction , but when it catches the sun it offers a lively spirit as well as a safe haven . |
| 10 | Once the system has accepted an in put from the tablet it gives an acknowledging Beep from the computer and prompts for the next command to execute the function . |
| 11 | Fisher wrote a kind letter to Ramsey , who found that in the circumstances it showed a generous spirit . |
| 12 | For the moment it seemed a simple enough experiment to do . ) |
| 13 | Over the years it became an ecological Salient . |
| 14 | In the abstract it has a great deal of force . |
| 15 | In the Atlantic it has a bathymetric distribution of 1410–1700 m . |
| 16 | From the outside it looks the same as the broader opportunity garden , but once through the gates the entrant sees that it is only a narrow strip . |
| 17 | By refreshing the Ringbearer it does the best that any water could . |
| 18 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 19 | Miliary er i it it refers , well you 've heard of millet seed and it 's it refers to a seeding of many different lesions er , around the body it means the disseminated form of of tuberculosis where the lesions occur all over the place . |
| 20 | The aim of the meeting it to provide a wide awareness of the problems industry faces and to illustrate how these can be dealt with positively . |
| 21 | When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur . |
| 22 | From the beginning it confronted the secular " idle " pastimes of the labouring poor , prohibited them to its followers and generally opposed the " forces of revelry " . |
| 23 | Mr Johnson told the court it landed the Financial Times with a phone bill of £705 . |
| 24 | Yes , it starts at , it says on the front it starts at seven , and then at the back it says the actual quiz starts at seven thirty . |
| 25 | In the other it ran a few hundred yards to a high chain-link fence with a locked gate , and then on to another distant cluster of lights , the harbour buildings . |
| 26 | To celebrate the event it launched an annual competition , Le Trophée des Mères Cuisinières , held in Vichy . |
| 27 | In the event it took the two of them , scrambling and sliding downwards beside each other , faces to the rocks , only some five or six minutes to reach the spot where the railing which Sven Hjerson had noticed further along had in fact stopped the couple 's fall . |
| 28 | On the surface it seemed a reasonable explanation . |
| 29 | That 's one thing here , will get them in and out , but I 've spoken to patients who say they do n't get the care here and , on the surface it looks a brilliant hospital , it gets them in and out , you know , it does everything , it 's got all the facilities but it does n't give them the care . |
| 30 | As magma rises towards the surface it exerts a considerable pressure on the overlying rock . |