Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 2 | oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long |
| 3 | It represents both the physical mihrab of the mosque and the spiritual archway to Paradise , and is often flanked by the " pillars of wisdom " ( pl. 31 ) . |
| 4 | Thus in Lothian about 250 children — the vast majority not infected with HIV — are likely to suffer the death of one or both parents due to disease related to HIV in the near future ; this figure is probably an underestimate as it represents only the tested population . |
| 5 | Friuli is a particularly rich site for bird trappers , since it sits aside the main north-south trans-European migratory route . |
| 6 | Losing the left engine is trickier since it drives both the single generator and the sole hydraulic pump . |
| 7 | It illustrates clearly the divergent needs of liquidity and profitability that confront most banks . |
| 8 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 9 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 10 | A placid and leafy place indeed , except that it has also the local nickname of Enfer des palombes or ‘ The wood pigeons ’ hell' , because nowhere are these migrating birds more vigorously hunted on their autumn flight south than around Sare . |
| 11 | Some might accuse it of looking like a wedding cake , but I would suggest it has just the right amount of decoration . |
| 12 | This project would not have achieved what it has without the professional generosity and sense of professional responsibility of the language and service disciplines . |
| 13 | Many pundits publicly opine that Windows would never have sold as many copies as it has without the massive publicity campaign that Microsoft put behind it . |
| 14 | Her manipulated images of masked Madonnas are made using a series of complex chemical processes ; she experiments technically , working and reworking the image until it has exactly the right feeling , tone or resonance . |
| 15 | Now Margarite , for instance , which is another kind of mica , quite similar to Muscovite except that it has twice the electrical charge across its planes of cleavage , has negligible strength and is very brittle . |
| 16 | It dwarfs even the extraordinary experiments under way in Poland and Hungary , and the one just starting in East Germany . |
| 17 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 18 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 19 | Oh , it says here the basic necessities the things you buy have er have actually gone up , or they 've hardly moved at all . |
| 20 | This development is significant for two reasons : it increases considerably the national provision of courses for further education teachers leading to a professional qualification ; and it gives the polytechnics and colleges of higher education a large and growing stake in an enterprise that has hitherto been very largely confined to the colleges of education ( technical ) . |
| 21 | It shows both the classic system of abstract geometric decoration : small black areas , graded zones of pattern with varied maeanders ; and at the same time the introduction on the neck of two zones of repeated animals ( grazing deer , resting goats ) and just above the broadest point of the body , on the shoulder between the handles , a scene of human action . |
| 22 | Moreover , because the matrix groups together all ‘ other financial institutions ’ in column 6 of Table 2.1 it shows only the net sale/acquisition of financial claims for the sector as a whole . |
| 23 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 24 | Although this balance is not entirely based on direct measurements , it shows how the observed interactions between sulphate reducing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria in vivo can be understood as competition for the mutual substrate hydrogen . |
| 25 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 26 | It conjures up the bad image about opiates on a general scale , y'know . |
| 27 | It assesses both the general processes affecting the public enterprise sector , and the variations between countries resulting from differences in the political environment and in institutional industrial relations factors . |
| 28 | The benefit of creating such groups is that it breaks down the multifarious functions of a branch committee into discreet areas , to which special attention can be given . |
| 29 | First , it is the only style that was invented by a woman ; and second , it requires only the minimum exertion of force to do the maximum amount of work . |
| 30 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |