Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction . |
| 2 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |
| 3 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 4 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 5 | Let's represent the total time it took to evolve all these breeds of dog from a wolf , by one ordinary walking pace . |
| 6 | If King Ginger Nut turns it on it could be the total rout it should be . |
| 7 | ‘ This race despises foreigners , a contempt explained by the exaggerated opinion it holds of itself . |
| 8 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 9 | Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony appears to have fully emerged from the shameful obscurity it once endured to become one of the most popular and recorded of all Romantic symphonies . |
| 10 | The verb metaphor is further characterized by the fact that it has no direct link to its proper term , but acts on the noun of which it is the predicate ; in the case of the transitive verb it can also act on its direct and indirect objects . |
| 11 | It has appeared to me , through all the seclusion of my life & the narrow experience it admitted of , that in nothing , men — & women too ! — were so apt to mistake their own feelings , as in this one thing . |
| 12 | Even using the narrow definition it is clear that desk top publishing is a complex and technical area ! |
| 13 | Only one man could see the situation clearly : Thomas Love Peacock , who described the scenic effect of Madocks 's project in his novel Headlong Hall : ‘ The mountain frame remains unchanged , unchangeable : but the liquid mirror it enclosed is gone . ’ |
| 14 | In the Norman tapestry it was Halley 's Comet which bode ill : not , as it turned out , for the invading forces of William the Conqueror but for the defenders led by King Harold . |
| 15 | At the European level it is widely believed that common standards will allow an expanded internal market to be developed and thus facilitate the economies of scale considered necessary for effective competition against foreign manufacturers . |
| 16 | Now there would be a certain logic in this incorporation , for , if we were to have a Bill of Rights enforced in Britain , then in a situation in which we have ratified the European Convention it would be difficult for us to bypass these rights and draw up a completely new set . |
| 17 | The deal seems to mean that with the Scottish base , AST no longer needs the European plant it had planned . |
| 18 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 19 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 20 | In the 15th century it was transformed into a landowner 's residence , then vineyards were planted all around it and a cellar created . |
| 21 | He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold . |
| 22 | For all its faults and notwithstanding the low reputation it has acquired through its use to collect trivial information , the social survey technique can undoubtedly produce a wide range of useful statistical data . |
| 23 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a contract worth $300m to supply telephone exchanges and related equipment to Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Bureau , the largest contract it has yet signed in China ; the contract formalises a broad agreement made back in June 1992 . |
| 24 | Since the Tamil insurrection it is almost certain that a number have been shot for food by the ‘ Tigers ’ . |
| 25 | However the parish council disapproved of the plan because of the possible distraction it would cause to drivers . |
| 26 | Her father maybe , with the tape around his neck , awful sleeveen Sean Walsh , who never said a word without thinking carefully of the possible effect it might have . |
| 27 | Mirror Group fell 3p to 106p because of the current turmoil affecting the newspaper over the political direction it might adopt . |
| 28 | This meant individual and private as well as state and municipal ownership ; and in the political sphere it meant ‘ genuine popular rule — rule of the people by the people themselves ’ . |
| 29 | Although at the political level it would seem that the Keynesian position has been relegated , at the theoretical ( and practical ) level it is maintained that fiscal policy can influence the achievement of the objectives of government policy . |
| 30 | But the political spite it betrayed must at least rank as a contributory factor in the sequence of events that led to Clapham and King 's Cross . |