Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |
| 2 | The rest of the money that British Rail has available should be spent on projects that are desperately needed to provide jam today , not tomorrow , for the commuters who are paying British Rail for the services it offers today . |
| 3 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 4 | I t is the growing clamour from industry for the graduates it employs to have more work-related skills , and the ensuing tension with the mainstream curriculum . |
| 5 | A cheerful atmosphere far removed from the grizzly association of the body-snatchers it is named after . |
| 6 | Ely , for example , had already received the bulk of the lands it held in 1086 , and the same may well have been true of other foundations such as Glastonbury , Abingdon and the Old and New Minsters in Winchester . |
| 7 | Bogwood requires some weeks if not months , of soaking to remove the bulk of the tannins it contains — one does not varnish bogwood for Uaru tanks , as then eat the varnish and then die . |
| 8 | Lloyd George had both a real desire to bring about social improvement and a shrewd appreciation of the gains it could , if carefully approached , bring both to the Liberal party and to his personal reputation . |
| 9 | For all of a minute , it seemed , we could hear the sound of his body falling , the rattle of the stones it dislodged . |
| 10 | As a result of the controls it was impossible for certain firms to obtain raw materials and replacements , for which no domestic substitutes were available . |
| 11 | Unemployment thus helped to shape the politics of the age , and some political changes were clearly the result of the problems it raised , although long-term social changes were clearly evident in permitting the Labour Party to replace the Liberal Party as the progressive party of British politics . |
| 12 | One consequence of the blaze in St Pierre was that it is difficult now to diagnose how much of the damage was a direct result of the nuee ardente , and how much a result of the fires it started . |
| 13 | Lloyd 's Underwriters , where despite the opposition of the defendants it was ordered that the taking of depositions before an examiner of the court should , as had been requested by the foreign court , be videotaped . |
| 14 | Having discussed the parameters of the signals it is time to look at the detectors . |
| 15 | The chart on page 70 provides an informal profile of each course and an indication of the qualities it asks of each student . |
| 16 | The approach which is adopted in this book , and which is described in this introductory chapter , is a variety of ‘ contextual ’ approach : it is assumed that the semantic properties of a lexical item are fully reflected in appropriate aspects of the relations it contracts with actual and potential contexts . |
| 17 | Both of these bodies agree that reliable information must represent faithfully the effect of the transactions it either purports to represent or could reasonably be expected to represent . |
| 18 | One of Mr Hammer 's favourite examples is Ford 's redesign of the procedures it uses to pay its thousands of suppliers . |
| 19 | Cranmer , with that desire to proffer advice on affairs of state which often overcomes academics after a good dinner , suggested a new approach ; the divines of the English and European universities should be consulted , he urged , for they were just as competent as any cardinals to advise whether in light of the Scriptures it was unlawful for a man to be married to his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 20 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 21 | Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations : |
| 22 | The state here is only a collection of functionaries , so it does not care about the aesthetic condition of the buildings it administers . |
| 23 | But with the coming of the Garrimpos it 's grown steadily filthier and more toxic , contaminated by things visible and invisible . |
| 24 | We therefore have to make adjustments to these cereals if we are going to provide the horse with the nutrients it needs . |
| 25 | Ever since you went away we have been unable to get the fire to burn ; even if we borrowed a light from the neighbours it went out as soon as we brought it in . " |
| 26 | During a visit to Alabama on June 20 US President George Bush announced that he had " decided to suspend the dialogue between the USA and the PLO pending a satisfactory response from the PLO on the steps it is taking to resolve problems associated with the recent acts of terrorism " . |
| 27 | BP Nutrition 's replacement cost operating profit of £xx million was up by £39 million compared with 1991 , thanks to the measures it had put in place to improve performance and its progress in focusing on key activities . |
| 28 | The Home Office tried to ban the interview on the grounds it might cause distress to relatives of Nilsen 's victims . |
| 29 | We 've made an assessment on the single reports , yeah and we 're asking members to erm , give us guidance on the principles it and your response in order to , to get a response to the regional health authority by this Friday . |
| 30 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |