Example sentences of "the [noun pl] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 2 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
| 3 | Yeah , one of the reasons it bucked the trend was because we 've erm , ground one of our competitors into the dust and he 's had to combine with another newspaper there and that too is struggling . |
| 4 | When I caught all the balls it made the game a lot more fun for both of us . |
| 5 | But for the sisters it meant a chance to get to see more of each other . |
| 6 | Between the wars it provided a market for the growing volume of Treasury bills issued by the government to meet its short-term financing needs . |
| 7 | Judging by the amount of Kodak film expended by watching tourists in the seconds it took the train to cross the viaduct , I was alone in my seething contempt for the caviar wagon . |
| 8 | One of the options it allows a speaker is to select the element acting as subject as a marked thematic choice , an option not normally available since the subject is the unmarked theme of a declarative clause in English . |
| 9 | But not only did the war raise the question of state power and economics ; for Bukharin and the Bolsheviks it signalled the beginning of the end of imperialist capitalism , the first act in the collapse of the system as a whole , a collapse that had been hotly debated in the pre-war Marxist movement in Europe . |