Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps they will one day , but at the moment it seems some way off . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If there is any money in the account it earns some interest , if it goes into the red you pay some interest . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The way it works these days is just so divorced from everything we 're familiar with back home . |
| 8 | 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 . |