Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the wizened old woman of ‘ Col Tempo ’ from the Accademia is shown in the same room as Leonardo 's drawings of grotesque heads , to which it bears little resemblance . |
| 2 | Kibbutzim , to which it bears most resemblance , do not ; nor do the traditional Eskimo communities . |
| 3 | The Government 's green paper on the future of the BBC spoke inspiringly of the particular needs and interests of the UK 's constituent nations , which it said any recast structure should reflect . |
| 4 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 5 | The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group . |
| 6 | Hereforshire Health Authority needs to make savings of six hundred thousand pounds which it overspent this year . |
| 7 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 8 | More generally , the Marre Committee was convinced by the evidence which it received that ignorance was a major cause of people not seeking legal advice when it was appropriate . |
| 9 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 10 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 11 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |
| 12 | In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control . |
| 13 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 14 | And of course er er i i I think it says something it says some thing for the morale , you see , that er and political understanding you see , that you can accept all these things , see , er er and still er and still carry on determined . |
| 15 | Although the church has traditionally been reluctant to expose those to whom it delivers this service to public attention , the general assembly ought to know of the scale of the kirk 's response . |
| 16 | To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness . |
| 17 | The , I mean it 's only anecdotal , but it feels to me as though the the increase they experienced in June has continued into er July , I know that 's not what we 're looking at but it it feels that way , erm |
| 18 | After it it seen this week at the Tron Theatre , Glasgow , the company will be taking Antigone to the Mercat Theatre in Drumchapel and to the Gorbals Unemployed Workers ' Centre , where Reekie expects that the ‘ strong , accessible storyline ’ of the play will appeal to an audience who respond to exactly such elements when they are presented in the form of TV soaps . |
| 19 | I mean you ca n't put that settee here because it it blocks that door . |
| 20 | But what it signified neither man knew . |
| 21 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 22 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |