Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 2 | It has a black canopy over the front and it says Health and Beauty Salon , with a telephone number and at the side of the door it says Gloria M. |
| 3 | Recollection of the day it visited Millbrook is especially spine-chilling . |
| 4 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 5 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 6 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 7 | The drugs giant has been rocked by talk that it could be expelled from the FTSE because of the way it pays dividends . |
| 8 | But , melancholy as the deserted and shattered city might seem to a casual visitor , to men out of the line it spelled life . |
| 9 | Also , the aquifer itself is slightly elastic ; the pressure of the groundwater it contains forces apart the mineral grains and increases the volume of the pores slightly . |
| 10 | If the drawing is moved towards the edge of the rectangle it gains weight as a thing , a unit , a shape . |