Example sentences of "the [noun] it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 4 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 5 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 6 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If there is any money in the account it earns some interest , if it goes into the red you pay some interest . |
| 11 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The way it works these days is just so divorced from everything we 're familiar with back home . |
| 14 | 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 . |