Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of ancient sites , it involves becoming aware of the special nature of the place and taking some action , however small , in recognition of this . |
| 2 | Its success can be measured by how it has moved Labour to the right of the Heath Tory government . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 4 | The NHS was supposed to treat all equally but now it has become similar to the difference between first class and tourist class air travel . |
| 5 | Although a native of southern Europe , it has become naturalized in the rest of Europe , and is now grown commercially . |
| 6 | As it has become familiar over the years , the constant discord and the rhythmic complexities have ceased to shock . |
| 7 | It has become traditional in the West ( as well as in the former Soviet Union ) to move publication dates of new books on Chernobyl as close to the anniversary of the accident as possible . |
| 8 | The British extreme right has also been particularly plagued by schism , exacerbated in part by political failure , after it has become impossible for the party to hide inherent divisions and tensions among its leaders . |
| 9 | It has forgotten about its opponent ; it has become interested in the architecture . |
| 10 | It has become clear over the years that a level of formality is required for fair and impartial decision making , though it is equally clear that proper decision making does not always require ritual conduct or observance of the formal rules of evidence . |
| 11 | Research questions will focus around how the method has fared in varying evaluative contexts , why it has remained marginal within the institutional context of clinical gynaecology and the cultural and sub-cultural contexts of contemporary sexuality . |
| 12 | However that myth has been laid to rest for good in Germany 's pedestrianised city centres and unsurprisingly it has proved unfounded in the experimental areas too . |
| 13 | Above all , the Labour Party should abandon its current stance on Northern Ireland if it wants to remain true to the principles of its founders . |
| 14 | While the new order clearly meant that the Community law supplanted existing statute law , the concept that it should likewise override any later Acts of Parliament caused some legal debate , for it seemed to run contrary to the doctrine that no Parliament might bind its successors ( Howe , op. cit. , p. 13 ) . |
| 15 | It is presently working on a Pentium-upgradable board for its Expresso line of personal computers which it intends to have ready by the summer . |
| 16 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
| 17 | And if he had made that boast , would it have remained privy to the colleagues ? |
| 18 | The paint , so thick in places that it seems to exist independent of the canvas , becomes an integral part of this annual cycle . |
| 19 | When it started to get busy on the course he went to the practice ground and then it was pitch and putt , chipping — a lot of practice with his short game . |
| 20 | It did prove suitable for the Mitcham route and in due course three more were acquired . |
| 21 | It did look good from the outside , even at this time of the year , an eighteenth-century fenland cottage , half-timbered and thatch-roofed , originally built as a home for the man who worked the sluice gates . |
| 22 | It did sound odd at the time . |
| 23 | Even if bitten or pecked it continues to lie limply on the ground . |
| 24 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 25 | It included a target of £150,000 from the National Union of Mineworkers , even though it had emerged penniless from the strike in 1985 , with its assets in the hands of the sequestrators . |
| 26 | It had flown low along the ground . |
| 27 | And even though his kiss was far from a lover 's caress , she felt her body respond , acting as though it had broken free from the control of her mind , curving into him , begging for more of his savage domination . |
| 28 | He thought of something he had read once about Fielding , who had heard the watermen at Rotherhithe mocking his body when it had grown ugly with the dropsy . |
| 29 | In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese . |
| 30 | Once it had become apparent to the farmer that the locking mechanism was broken , that had brought to an end the seller 's obligation that the coupling continue to be reasonably fit for its purpose . |