Example sentences of "it [adv] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the words of one DCSL : I think the benefit comes from how they tackle it rather than the amount of money . |
| 2 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 3 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 4 | ‘ Go and put it somewhere where the rats ca n't get it , ’ said Grimma . |
| 5 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 6 | ‘ And do n't fuss any more about such things , ’ said Dotty , ‘ I really have n't time to explain it all when the chickens are waiting to be fed . ’ |
| 7 | He will burn it all when the time comes . ’ |
| 8 | Ramsey was asked later , were you getting unintelligible , or was it only that the bishop was a bad listener to Holy Week addresses ? |
| 9 | Alicia uses it only when the family has come to the end of its own resources and then it brings happiness and prosperity to them all . |
| 10 | They are carried by it only if the water has enough energy to lift and shift them — that is , if there is a great enough mass of water , moving sufficiently quickly . |
| 11 | However , the Central Council recognized in April that a franchise change could not now be avoided , but resolved to support it only if the government would agree to restore the House of Lords at the same time . |
| 12 | Starting with the gravel , landscape it so that the back of the tank 's floor is higher than the front , which tends to make the tank look bigger . |
| 13 | In applying this average increase of 23% the insurers have structured it so that the increase will mainly apply to those categories of policyholders which have the greatest incidence of claims . |
| 14 | When a layer of purée approximately ½ inch thick has frozen , remove the mixture from the freezer and stir it so that the mixture is a soft crystallized consistency . |
| 15 | SECOND SCHEDULE Rights granted The tenant must make absolutely certain that there are full and sufficient rights available to it so that the premises can be enjoyed for the whole of the term for any purpose currently permitted by the lease or to which the premises may be put with the landlord 's consent . |
| 16 | This is done by inserting a special plastic tube into a limb artery , threading it to the heart and then into an affected coronary artery , manoeuvring it so that the tip is just past the narrowed section . |
| 17 | The solution is to take the stake a foot ( 0.3m ) or more higher and to loop branches to it so that the head can not be turned over . |
| 18 | The Indonesians wanted to start within a month , but Douglas-Hamilton and Child urged them to consider delaying it so that the army could do a pilot run and the local people could be better informed about what to expect . |
| 19 | He grabbed at the barrel and fell with it so that the power of the big man was added to his own strength . |
| 20 | well they 've got it so that the colours in the middle |
| 21 | D'Arcy contemplated the glass in his hand , turning it so that the light caught the cut crystal edges . |
| 22 | Once the ink is expelled , the heat is turned off , the ink bubble contracts and a vacuum is formed in the nozzle , pulling fresh ink back into it so that the process can begin again . |
| 23 | They argued : ‘ whoever is responsible for spending money should also be responsible for raising it so that the amount of expenditure is subject to democratic control ’ ( Layfield 1 976:283 ) . |
| 24 | The accented B♭s that occur as pick-up notes for each phrase in bars 2–5 should be played by hooking your r/h thumb under the G string and releasing it so that the string slaps against the fingerboard . |
| 25 | Holly bent to the floor , picked up the knife , admired the workmanship of the weapon , reversed it so that the string whipped handle was towards the man , passed it back to him . |
| 26 | Still more is it so when the case is not on all fours with the problem . |
| 27 | Now this psychology , there 's absolutely loads of stuff on it so and the Maitlin book 's got quite a good coverage of it , so I 'll go over it quite quickly , alright ? |
| 28 | Was it perhaps because the work did indeed look like typewriting ( by this time neither a highly paid nor a highly regarded occupation and mostly done by women ) and therefore an effeminate calling and beneath a man 's dignity ? |
| 29 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 30 | I did n't have to think ‘ Well , if I put that dress on I 'll only get it dirty because the baby will be sick over me ’ — to be dressed up all day and feel you can be clean and only have nice jobs to do and always be with people … |