Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers older people the chance to revisit places of interest which they maybe have n't seen for years . |
| 2 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |
| 3 | It has ten times the luminosity of the Sun , and is pure white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 4 | When it meets real resistance the army will recoil and break . ’ |
| 5 | If it meets these requirements the exchange may obtain RIE status under the FSA . |
| 6 | It gave Spinal Tap the inspiration for ‘ Stonehenge ’ , but otherwise the Reading Festival must have barely registered beyond ‘ laughing stock ’ status in the minds of Barbara 's ‘ intelligent , discerning ’ young music fans . |
| 7 | The idea of telephone engineer Iain Robertson , it gave local people the chance to see their own favourite picture displayed among those of other villagers . |
| 8 | The exclusion of the renunciation clauses weakened the force of the treaty ; it gave both sides the opportunity to prevaricate and , in the event , the renunciations were never carried out . |
| 9 | It gives local authorities the right to carry out repairs to reservoirs and charge the owner — and the duty to compile a national register of large reservoirs . |
| 10 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |