Example sentences of "the [noun] it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East and South restores the balance of exhibitions in terms of gender , the type of work it displays , the cities it takes place in and the opportunities it offers to artists . |
| 2 | The verdict It wants greasin ’ was repeated to the dealer ; but as he was a Suffolk man himself he summed up the situation in a moment . |
| 3 | But such dramatic descent to Sheol , the land of the dead they believed to be beneath the earth , could not in any way be expected , and in the story it causes panic . |
| 4 | But the radical difference between this and previous dieting methods is that it makes the food you consume more filling and also renders some of the calories it supplies non-fattening , as you will begin to learn in the next chapter . |
| 5 | Should the ego fail to satisfy the id it becomes prey to neurotic anxiety arising out of the strength of its instinctual drives ; if it fails the superego it is subject to moral anxiety ; and if it can not meet the demands of the outside world it is likely to experience realistic anxiety . |
| 6 | In United States law , for example , it is unclear whether a bank that relies solely on the CKR as its collateral can perfect a security interest in the goods , or whether having perfected its interest in the CKR it has priority over bona fide purchasers of the goods or over holders of purchase money security interests in the customer-buyer 's inventory . |
| 7 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 8 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 9 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 10 | In the mid-1980s it became part of the electricians ' union the EEPTU . |
| 11 | As the marble attempts to surmount the obstacle it looses speed . |
| 12 | Within the business it guaranteed capital , perhaps useful business contacts , and above all reliable managers . |
| 13 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 14 | After the service it took time for the galleries to empty . |
| 15 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 16 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 17 | Around the back it sports twinax , coax and local network connections , and comes with a solid state disk and built in 3270 and AS/400 emulations . |
| 18 | And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had |
| 19 | In September the Ivoirien government cut the price it paid cocoa farmers for the second time since July , to CFA200 per kilogramme ( £368 a tonne ) . |
| 20 | The logic of party competition , regular electoral successes by socialist and social democratic parties , rational administration and the control it gives party elites over the state machine have all contributed to the degree of centralization in liberal democracies . |
| 21 | When it was on the ground it looked kind of lost . |
| 22 | It implies that the ‘ content ’ of a course may be intimately intertwined with its ‘ process ’ : the way it is taught , the staff who teach it , the environment it takes place in . |
| 23 | And he said as he drove off down the road it went rattle rattle rattle rattle and there were these hole little holes in the side of his van . . |
| 24 | For the Greek it meant student , pupil or apprentice . |
| 25 | It went to the womb it met knife |
| 26 | It went to the womb it met maggot and rottenness |
| 27 | It went to the womb it met blood |
| 28 | But the friendliness and common sense of ordinary players , the humour , excitement , and the fin it affords offer reasonable grounds for hope . |
| 29 | But , melancholy as the deserted and shattered city might seem to a casual visitor , to men out of the line it spelled life . |
| 30 | The loyalty that he inspired was genuine , but in the end it became self-defeating , as Kinnock himself realised — witness his damaging refusal to state his own position on electoral reform , lest it should close off discussion . |