Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In response to the proposed new guidelines the FMLN , which had demobilized the first 20 per cent of its forces in June [ see p. 38957 ] and a further 20 per cent on Sept. 21 , agreed to disband the next 20 per cent on Oct. 31 ( on which date it duly proceeded with the disarming of some 1,000 guerrillas ) , a further 20 per cent on Nov. 20 and the final 20 per cent on Dec. 15 .
2 It rather depends on the part , does n't it ? ’ said Dotty .
3 It rather depends on the gentleman 's personal financial circumstances , and I would n't want to rehearse those on the air .
4 Since like what you say , psychoanalysis was now , I mean , is it mostly centred on the ego ?
5 Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides .
6 Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around .
7 He said the CSM did feel it right to act at the end of 1981 as there was not enough information available .
8 I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week .
9 It effectively cuts off the land the open agricultural land from these two fields and therefore visually it makes the paddock more part of Skelton Village .
10 This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National .
11 Originally started for the Lobkovic family in 1545 by Agostino Galli , it eventually came into the hands of the Schwarzenberg family .
12 But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales .
13 I think it only lasted through the summer vacation , but it was a , it was an interesting experience , and in fact in , in their own little way the group showed some of the tensions which we found in our seventeenth-century radicals .
14 Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies .
15 It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power .
16 That said , it only remains for the Committee to thank all those who came .
17 The latter requirement means that component molecules of each species can interchange positions without altering the total energy of the system , i.e. and consequently it only remains for the entropy contribution ΔS M to be calculated .
18 It only differs from the category 1 species in the greater frequency of occurrence of digestion .
19 It only learns at the end of a search .
20 It only works in the direction in which it 's throwing the ions .
21 IT MAY SEEM paradoxical to describe Mrs Curdle 's gipsy caravan first , for it only stood on the green for a day or two at the end of April and beginning of May each year .
22 The money supply is of no intrinsic significance : it only matters to the extent that it may be manipulated in such a way as to achieve other intermediate objectives of macroeconomic policy such as interest rate or exchange rate stability .
23 Incredibly , impersonation of this sort to get hold of data is not a criminal offense , in this country there is no law as such which makes it illegal to steal information , and the main piece of legislation , the Data Protection Act contains a massive loophole , it only applies to the holders of information not to third parties trying to get their hands on it .
24 Although it only appears in the sources c.1200 this may not be significant , for the chronicler does not refer to Eadric as Streona or to Edmund as Ironside , but there is eleventh-century evidence for both names .
25 Contrary to the suggestion in para 18/8/10 of the 1993 White Book , it has been held that a claim for interest under s35A is sufficiently pleaded even if it only appears in the prayer and not also in the body of the pleading ( McDonald 's Hamburgers Ltd v Burgerking ( UK ) Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 112 ) .
26 It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning .
27 The cash value to be placed upon a first appointment as writer or cadet is uncertain , for it obviously depended upon the number of years in which a candidate would draw the salary , but contemporaries no doubt took the possibility of an early death from disease into account when they spoke of a value of £1,000 .
28 Only at the last minute , by forced marches , would it suddenly make for the Channel coast .
29 You know his laws in parc you know sort of in practice , but we 'll , we 'll sit here and watch that pen until it suddenly jumps off the table .
30 Not only does it perhaps help in the storage of new memories , but dreaming is actively helping us to solve emotional problems .
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