Example sentences of "it [vb -s] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Total im-mersion is debilitating , ’ she told me , adding : ‘ It destroys the muscles of the breast . ’ |
| 2 | He had cause to be ; a number of the clergy who compiled the 1801 Returns saw the improving larger farmer as a mixed blessing , likely to be more interested in maximising his profits than in keeping prices reasonable , ‘ the cause of the dearness of Butcher 's meat , cheese , etc. etc … . it destroys the comforts of the lower class of society ’ . |
| 3 | It crosses the boundaries of the organization and allows us to differentiate between the power of members ( e.g. those employed ) and non-members ( those external to the organization ) . |
| 4 | Hale 's black velvet dress is cursed because it represents the values of the ‘ Gringolandia ’ so hated by Kahlo . |
| 5 | It displays the contents of the package and allows the user to mark the modules to be transferred with an ‘ E ’ ( for Enter ) or a ‘ R ’ ( for Read ) . |
| 6 | But the Women 's Aid movement is more — it is a radical intervention in the law and order debate , it goes beyond a puritanical protection of women which reproduces their vulnerability , and it transcends the limits of the Left-Right contest between police authoritarianism and police accountability . |
| 7 | Each returns carrying a crop full of water with which it wets the walls of the main part of the nest . |
| 8 | The idea is to buy a stick , then drop it ; not throw it mind , but drop it on one side of the bridge and hope it beats the others past the finishing line . |
| 9 | The traditional view of cell suicide focuses on development : it helps the tadpole to lose its tail ; it dissolves the tissues of the caterpillar when the time comes for change into a moth ; in a mother 's womb , it severs the webs between the digits of a child 's developing hands and feet . |
| 10 | For our present purposes , however , the important feature of the model is that it develops the implications of the widely accepted notion that even the simplest stimulus will consist of a set ( probably a large number ) of elements and that only some of these will be sampled ( will activate their central representations ) on a given exposure ( cf. |
| 11 | It covers the sides of the casket densely . |
| 12 | Subtitled ‘ A short history of Everton , its Mother Church , and one of its mid-Victorian Churchwardens , including notes on how to start tracing a Family Tree ’ , it highlights the fortunes of the Mould family and by so doing it provides insights into the character of a place that was overwhelmed by its powerful neighbour 's rapid expansion . |
| 13 | And , when I read it in the paper cos it , you know it has the details of the sale of new on the back |
| 14 | Thus it questions the values of the existing order of ‘ better ’ , ‘ useful ’ , ‘ appropriate ’ , ‘ productive ’ and ‘ valuable ’ and is ‘ wholly distrustful of the rules of conduct with which society as presently constituted provides each of its members ’ ( Horkheimer 1972 : 207 ) . |
| 15 | The point about imported material is that it contains the values of the society where it was made and , so , through modern techniques of diffusion , all social levels of a Third World society are exposed to the product of a small group of people in the industrialised world . |
| 16 | Although the structure plan was compiled mostly by a group of consultants , it was updated by the Islands ' planning authority and , since it does bear the name of the Council , one would assume that it mirrors the ideas of the local bureaucracy . |
| 17 | The argument in support of this interpretation is that section 309 changes the definition of ‘ the interests of the company ’ — it adds the employees to the shareholders as the persons whose interests the directors are required to serve . |
| 18 | It infringes the rights of the individual . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the faster the clicks are emitted , the more up-to-date information the bat will receive as it negotiates the obstacles in the cave and dodges through the branches and creepers of the night forest . |
| 20 | Each option which appears to be attractive must be considered and designed at least in outline to see if it meets the objectives for the project . |
| 21 | ‘ Our extensive training available to staff is currently under review , so that it meets the needs of the organisation , library users and staff . |
| 22 | ‘ It underlines the difficulties of the decisions we have to take and the importance of the issues , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Synergia is a self-install driver , written in C , which enables conventional Unix programs to run in viewdata mode ; it links the programs to the viewdata communications front-end processor , and to the user terminal . |
| 24 | It shows the movements in the company 's liabilities and assets during the trading period . |
| 25 | Section 226 imposes on the directors of every company the duty to prepare for each financial year of the company a balance sheet and a profit and loss account ( its ‘ individual accounts ’ ) and section 227 imposes a like duty on directors of a company which is a parent company additionally to prepare a consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss account ( ‘ group accounts ’ ) The basic and over-riding principle is that the balance sheets must give a true and fair view , in the case of individual accounts ‘ of the state of affairs of the company at the end of the financial year ’ and in the case of group accounts ‘ of the state of affairs as at the end of the financial year of the undertakings included in the consolidation as a whole , so far as it concerns the members of the company . ’ |
| 26 | It is made all the more aggravating when people living inside the city know how little it costs the authorities outside the city to do precisely the same job . |
| 27 | All the dust is set in black rims , it reaches the edges of the paper . |
| 28 | It 's a sort of triangle , spreading further and further out till it reaches the sides of the river . |
| 29 | The root or body of the tree is the finest lead , from which , it gradually becomes worse , as it approaches the extremities of the branches . ’ |
| 30 | Your job description covers a multitude , and the fact that it frames the needs of the business , does n't it ? |