Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90-10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 2 | It plays hard on the so-called ‘ 90–10 ’ rule , claiming that 90% of the code is already out there and that only 10% needs to be written . |
| 3 | It differs slightly from the average salary which is which is the best year out of the last three . |
| 4 | It differs greatly from the family-based structuring of human life with its stress on the long-term bond between mates . |
| 5 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 6 | MARRIAGE — It refers both to the social institution that sets up and sanctions the union of persons of opposite sex ( see family ) and to the state of being married . |
| 7 | This , again , is no declaration of open season ; it points merely to the obvious fact that moral agents must necessarily set the agenda . |
| 8 | It rarely achieves its objectives in creating jobs or increasing production , and it contributes significantly to the tropical deforestation which is a current world concern . |
| 9 | They say peace , it does n't just go on the top two inches of the surface water , it goes right to the very depths of your life and keeps . |
| 10 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 11 | It goes along with the common complaint that there are areas and methods of serious investigation which are just not touched by scholastic doctrines . |
| 12 | Probably , someone you would disapprove of I did n't know whether remember no probably not it goes back to the middle ages . |
| 13 | and then , once you 've claimed , it goes back to the original figure . |
| 14 | It goes back to the short term thing , you fear that they do n't do it as well . |
| 15 | Just to mention one more thing the force video , a number of community affairs staff have mentioned to me that it 's out of date cos it goes back to the previous organisation |
| 16 | It 's it 's er , the travellers tradition and it goes back to the old tradition of the Scottish people as well |
| 17 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |
| 18 | Or is it blinks fast in the other direction ? |
| 19 | But it fits well with the plodding pointlessness of it all ; ‘ Our Time In Eden ’ is a nice , ordinary , listless album . |
| 20 | How one cell orientates itself and produces its spicule so that it fits perfectly into the overall design is totally unknown . |
| 21 | Nevertheless his choreographic plan is so designed that each movement of every dancer , whether as an individual or part of the group , is co-ordinated with the others so that it fits correctly into the overall pattern and within the space allotted by stage , wings and backcloth which — in Symphonic Variations — delicately echoes the curving lines or the dance . |
| 22 | You may have a rough idea of where you are going and if it fits in with the cosmic blueprint , doors open easily . |
| 23 | ‘ I might have expected such an answer from you , McAllister ; it fits in with the general picture , ’ said Dr Neil angrily , picking up his cane . |
| 24 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 25 | For example:UNDERSTANDING THE IBM ENVIRONMENT introduces the latest technical information about newly available IBM equipment , how it fits in with the existing range and how this should affect your view of IBM , as a customer . |
| 26 | ‘ To be honest I do n't think it fits in with the Irish way of things . |
| 27 | As we said in the last chapter , the Church is well placed to give a positive message at this time , to speak of how mortality is understood and how it fits in with the Christian message of salvation . |
| 28 | In the mountains not far from Dečane and near the present-day town of Prština , it lies just off the main road to Skopje . |
| 29 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |
| 30 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |