Example sentences of "it [conj] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original may be physically damaged if a cup of coffee is spilt over it or the magnetic impulses on the disk representing the program may be destroyed or altered by exposure to a strong magnetic field . |
| 2 | Popular idiom has it that the four themes are very imperfectly combined in the family : ‘ children ruin a marriage ’ , ‘ sex and family life simply do n't go together ’ , and so forth . |
| 3 | Orientalising wisdom has it that the rural masses know nothing about politics and are satisfied with the new commodity economy generated by the privatisation of land . |
| 4 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 5 | I take it that the honourable gentlemen are in fact cheering the government , thank you very much . |
| 6 | I will not bore you with going through a lot of slides showing those comparisons , but in a short paper erm you must take my word for it that the two groups were comparable . |
| 7 | But how can natural selection see to it that the two pathways are not mixed , and that cooperating groups of compatible genes emerge ? |
| 8 | Why is it that the psychic gifts often cause apprehension and even fear ? |
| 9 | Michael Land of Sussex University , our foremost authority on invertebrate eyes , is worried , and so am I. Is it that the necessary mutations can not arise , given the way Nautilus embryos develop ? |
| 10 | I would appreciate it if the two gentlemen who stopped to help me when I had an accident with my car on the road near Dounreay on 1/12/92 would contact me — Ellen Campbell , Reay 345 . |
| 11 | But one side says we should n't talk about it and the other talks too much . |
| 12 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |
| 13 | Russia 's economic reform programme [ see above ] was causing friction between it and the other republics . |
| 14 | No that 's , that 's , that 's basically it and the other points that you 've covered of course . |
| 15 | And so I just started playing it and the other guys started improvising around me . |
| 16 | It is certainly interesting for specialists to see this odd and disagreeable picture , whose attribution was upheld by Roberto Longhi , but it is difficult to detect any point of contact between it and the other exhibits assigned to Giorgione at Palazzo Grassi . |
| 17 | He said the inquiry , carried out under terms unique to it and the Equal Opportunities Commission , had been formally initiated last month and could last up to a year . |
| 18 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 19 | We must criticise explanations of difference that treat gender as something obvious , static and monolithic , ignoring the forces that shape it and the varied forms they take in different times and places . |
| 20 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 21 | In the first gallery , dedicated to the artist 's origins , one can see the earliest signed work , the ‘ Flight into Egypt ’ of 1534 , and chart the development between it and the two versions of the ‘ Journey to Calvary ’ from the Fitzwilliam and the National Gallery , London , executed a decade later . |
| 22 | It looks good , travels well , you can wash it and the environmental aspects are very impressive . ’ |
| 23 | We know that if , in the introduction of the council tax , the Government inflict on the British people what they did with the poll tax — the £10 billion that it has cost us , the increase in VAT to manipulate it and the innumerable changes to make it more acceptable — local government and the British people will face the same sort of inadequacies and misery . |
| 24 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 25 | It was a red Transit , one of the new designs which look like they 've been punched in the nose , but there were no markings on it and the rear windows had been painted out . |
| 26 | which we have a erm , there 's a bit about release policy and procedures for local groups , er , groups can help their prisoner with mummy or other erm relief , erm on the Christmas family particularly and it 's , it 's explaining you know how they do it and the best ways to go about it . |
| 27 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 28 | Client accepts that KPMG is required to comply with the rules and the regulations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and rules and regulations of the SIB , the City Code and all other relevant authorities and KPMG undertakes that it and the Indemnified Persons will not breach such rules and regulations ( provided that this breach would not have arisen if Client had complied with the undertakings and warranties contained in sub-paragraphs 1 ) to 4 ) of this section ) . |
| 29 | Our winners will see it and the stunning illusions of Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage Hotel . |
| 30 | The British people will pay for it and the foreign speculators will profit from it . |