Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 2 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 3 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 4 | It admitted being hit by the growing trend of big companies to place all their insurance business on a single policy . |
| 5 | Any noise it made was lost in the wind . |
| 6 | Any sound it made was lost in the green murk . |
| 7 | An extra charge of one shilling ( 5p ) was made for permission to view the house , and the £5,500 it made was added to the Queen 's charitable fund . |
| 8 | The word click is onomatopoeic in itself , and the neat , abrupt quality of the sound it signifies is echoed in the final /t/ consonance of discreet and shut , and by the initial /d/ alliteration of discreet and door . |
| 9 | While both the philosophical and sociological responses to Mannheim 's work was critical and did not exactly embrace the sociology of knowledge as an exciting new project , it has been recognized as a promising new area for development . |
| 10 | In discussing the extent to which sentencing discretion in England and Wales has been subject to control in the past , or is likely to be in the future , we will adopt the threefold classification elaborated by K.C. Davis ( 1969 ) : viz. confining discretion ( or restricting the scope of discretionary power that is available ) ; structuring discretion ( or regulating its exercise in advance ) ; and checking discretion ( or reviewing the way it has been exercised in the past ) . |
| 11 | The effect of this change could be profound : it has been compared to the revolution that science produced in the consciousness of men and women during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 12 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
| 13 | However , it has been challenged on a number of grounds . |
| 14 | Increasingly it has been challenged by a rival account which might be called a ‘ teleology of the oppressed ’ . |
| 15 | In Vienna not even the Danube runs free , for it has been channelled into a neat canal . |
| 16 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 17 | That there has been a consistent theme to British economic policy over many years is clear ; how successfully it has been implemented within the EEC is more obscure . |
| 18 | DEC , which admits it has been locked in a ‘ defensive position ’ over Unix , will sell version 1 of the personality as a layered add-on product to the 64-bit OSF/1 1.2 . |
| 19 | It has been implicated as a causative factor in both psychological and physical disease . |
| 20 | You think it has been kept in the ‘ fridge so what do you do ? |
| 21 | There are special toothpastes which are not harmful if swallowed , and brushing your dog 's teeth is actually very easy once it has been demonstrated by a vet . |
| 22 | While it has been demonstrated by the work of Piaget and others that , at primary school age , children 's understanding functions at the concrete operational stage , more recent research in primary history has tended to suggest that children 's " historical " thinking can be developed and encouraged by certain teaching techniques . |
| 23 | The question of open access is not political ; it is the essence of all UK privatisations and it has been demonstrated in the electricity supply industry that competition is not only possible , but healthy , in the generation and supply of electricity . |
| 24 | But it has been buffeted by the recession on two counts : it is in the south-east and in the services sector . |
| 25 | The interior has been excellently restored after damage caused in the Second World War , though it has been done in a modern , simplified manner . |
| 26 | What may appear to be an ordinary action , such as picking up a slipper to put it on , can trigger an unusual response from the dog if it has been hit with a shoe in a previous home . |
| 27 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 28 | It has been noted as a common error in response to ratio and proportion questions , but its incidence is much influenced by the numbers in the questions and particularly by context ( Bell , APU ) . |
| 29 | It has been noted of a pioneer like Arkwright that he had " to train his workpeople to a precision and assiduity altogether unknown before , against which their listless and restless habits rose in continued rebellion " . |
| 30 | It has been noted at the NLM that there are an increasing number of end-users — medical practitioners — who are interested in using the MEDLINE system themselves . |