Example sentences of "it the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I thought I 'd got the hang of it the service changed . |
| 2 | That 's it the lever locks yes . |
| 3 | In West Yorkshire to the South we have similar problems of inner city decline and there as we understand it the authorities wish to cater for their housing needs . |
| 4 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 5 | Leopold 's fear , on the other hand , was that Mozart might lose the appointment in Salzburg and with it the chance to begin paying off the debts . |
| 6 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 7 | that 's right he 's still got it the bloke has , yeah . |
| 8 | Quickly he records a message of warning , but before he can launch it the Daleks locate and kill him . |
| 9 | This neatly matches the region 's external debt and , says David Forrest — underwriting director of the London-based political risk insurer EIGA — ‘ we have to encourage investors to give it the ability to earn the foreign exchange to repay that debt . ’ |
| 10 | And it is this regular aerobic routine that speeds up the body by increasing its metabolic rate and gives it the ability to shed those extra pounds . |
| 11 | Specialisation brings with it the ability to provide expert services at a relatively low cost to the customer . |
| 12 | As Members of the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) , the firm represents the Hellman Worldwide Network , giving it the ability to work with other reputable agents throughout the world and provide consolidation air freight services at competitive costs . |
| 13 | It was therefore thought necessary to take steps not only to secure the defence of the Iberian Peninsula , but also to give it the ability to assume an offensive role if necessary . |
| 14 | This gives it the ability to read and analyse difficult forms such as facsimile copies and folded or smudged paper , and to learn . |
| 15 | Although even as she said it the thought rushed through her mind that that was exactly what she was doing now . |
| 16 | The Bill is a confession because in it the Government say , ’ We have done wrong by you , consumer . ’ |
| 17 | The working class was hardly more impressed by the Manifesto and in the weeks that followed it the government faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority , centred on St Petersburg and Moscow . |
| 18 | Even without it the Unionists had a popular mandate such as no Westminster government has enjoyed . |
| 19 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 20 | This paragraph speaks of the ‘ many distinctive gifts and talents that women offer to the Church ; ’ in it the bishops state : ‘ We believe the time if overdue for more positive attitudes about your participation in the life of the Church and we recognise with regret that you have often been permitted to play mainly a limited and often inferior part in the Church . |
| 21 | This was a natural belief , because human life — indeed , the whole of recorded history — is so brief that during it the universe has not changed significantly . |
| 22 | As luck would have it the phone rang . |
| 23 | This allows the lungs to remain inflated after a breath is taken , without it the lung does not expand adequately and the baby had to work much harder to breathe — rather like blowing up a new balloon as opposed to one with some air already in it . |
| 24 | It is effective chiefly in defence , since in delivering it the karateka presents only the side of his body to his opponent , thereby protecting all his vital areas . |
| 25 | A Gothic cathedral is a complex design , but when standing inside it the individual knows where he or she is and how to reach any other point in it . |
| 26 | You have forgotten : where was it the terrorism stopped , the drug-running began ? |
| 27 | Behind it the water looked tantalisingly calm with a gorgeous white sand beach fringed with coconut palms . |
| 28 | Well , you need n't call it wages for housework , you could call it the state paying for childcare at home , could n't you ? |
| 29 | By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing . |
| 30 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |