Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] it " in BNC.

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1 To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission .
2 As Morton produced the manila folder from his pocket , Sir Rufus seized it and began leafing through the papers it contained .
3 It 's not what they say , it 's what lies underneath the words it 's interesting .
4 If an organisation like a local authority does not have clear and effective channels of internal communication , then how will it manage to communicate with the communities it serves when , through the white-collar CCT process , it speaks with many more voices than at present ?
5 By the time the 90mph train smashed into the benches it had lost only about 5mph .
6 The UK has flouted the EC 's Directive and disagreed with the standards it originally agreed to .
7 Once it has been lifted from the frames it will be offered to the NRM who have expressed interest in it for a projected display .
8 A second clue to the date of a book lies in the events it records .
9 In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing .
10 Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways .
11 Critical reservations about New Historicism are overwhelmed by the benefits it has produced in forcing us to reconsider the relations between texts , historical contexts , and the methodologies we use in both establishing and unravelling these relations .
12 Yeah , erm I er , I 'd given up erm about se seven weeks ago , and I was told that it was an anti-depressant and when I came off the cigarettes it was just terrible !
13 Thus the Tabula Rasa flourished in its peculiar , purposeless way , gathering to talk about the secrets it kept , as Roxborough had decreed , and enjoying the sight of the city from its place on Highgate Hill .
14 He says considering the conditions it 's very good .
15 Then as you start to make the point you 'll find your hands will come up naturally and bend from the elbows it sounds crazy to say but if if you suddenly go coo I 've got everything in me pocket but
16 In a review of the political situation written in the spring of 1946 , I concluded with the statement , ‘ If Aung San can be detached from the Communists it will be a great day for Burma . ’
17 Sport does occupy a great chunk of the time of black schoolkids and the attention they give it is directly related to the rewards it brings .
18 Using this technique , the lexicon defines each verb according to the cases it can take .
19 In conclusion , according to the papers it 's women who are the problem , not men .
20 ‘ The artistic heritage of Rome and Lazio is so vast and imposing that we distribute the work between us , even if according to the rules it is the Soprintendenza for Architectural Monuments which should deal with mural painting ’ .
21 The amount of time involved in the process will vary from institution to institution according to size , but also — more importantly — according to the procedures it adopts .
22 The ordinary person does not inherently dislike work : according to the conditions it may be a source of satisfaction or punishment .
23 Although the strike itself went off peacefully , according to the police it was the cause of violence which began on Nov. 3 at a mine in Welkom in the Orange Free State and which had led to the killing of at least 84 miners by Nov. 11 .
24 For an industrial waste producer , a college , hospital etc , the extent to which the duty applies will vary according to the arrangements it has made for the disposal of the waste ( see box ) .
25 It 's cost a million and a quarter pounds to build but according to the pupils it 's worth every penny .
26 So these people that had little private shops in them days did well because when the people came to the lodges it all the commodities were bought to as well as them .
27 The design of an organisation depends on the goals it is pursuing , its size , its market , the environment in which it operates and the technology it is employing .
28 Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery .
29 If a laying cuckoo is seen by the hosts it is vigorously mobbed and chased and , more importantly from the cuckoo 's point of view , its egg is more likely to be ejected .
30 One theatre management which gave concessionary tickets , for instance , had never thought about the problems it caused its older customers by refusing advance booking and forcing them to queue for standby tickets .
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