Example sentences of "it in the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |
| 2 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 3 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 4 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 5 | Look at it and then erm measured it I did I d and then I redid this one and put it in the same scale , |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 7 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 8 | Expressed verbally , we must choose a variable with a I above it in the same column . |
| 9 | We do it in the same spirit in which in Pilgrim 's Progress John Bunyan 's Christian and Hopeful erected a sign to keep other pilgrims from the hands of Giant Despair . |
| 10 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 11 | The company is claiming damages against Mr Carr , and enough damages from AY to ‘ put it in the same position it would have been in if AY had done the work it contracted to do competently ’ . |
| 12 | If you or I were to mix mud and water and place it in the same position it would fall off . |
| 13 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 14 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 15 | A statement that something does not happen both creates an event and abolishes it in the same act ( 1976k:21–2 ) . |
| 16 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 17 | Of course , the fact that you have written a computer program that will do what an animal does is no proof that the animal does it in the same way . |
| 18 | Until recently , such wavelengths have been ignored because neutral hydrogen absorbs it in the same way fog absorbs visible light . |
| 19 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 20 | As Linda Nochlin said , ‘ Not all women artists are feminists ; not all feminist artists wish to incorporate their feminist identity into their art works , and certainly , even if some of them do , none of them will do it in the same way ’ . |
| 21 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
| 22 | If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way . |
| 23 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 24 | Treat it in the same way as black spot , with particular attention to clearing up fallen leaves on to the fire . |
| 25 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 26 | Writers of textbooks have a clear view of what they are trying to achieve , and , encouraged by their own success when developing the material , too easily believe that other teachers will use it in the same way when guided only by a well-written instruction , or even just the ‘ clear ’ implication of style in the material itself . |
| 27 | Right they all make the salt , they all make it in the same way Hydrochloric acid would make ? |
| 28 | When you can use video as another classroom aid , when and how it suits the language programme you are teaching , you almost certainly wo n't want to use it in the same way at the same time each week . |
| 29 | ‘ The trouble is it is unimaginable to him that his women do n't want it in the same way . ’ |
| 30 | Have we always seen such change and uncertainty and responded to it in the same way ? |