Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 2 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 3 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 4 | First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool . |
| 5 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |
| 6 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 7 | Among other initiatives taken at the summit was a decision by Saudi Arabia to forgive the debt owed to it by the poorest Islamic countries and to contribute US$10,000,000 to ease the ICO 's budget deficit of US$49,000,000 . |
| 8 | Didyma was a coastal port near to the important city of Miletos ( page 143 ) , connected to it by the sacred road . |
| 9 | Now assign a system-wide logical name to the storage directory ; you will always refer to it by the logical name from within LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 11 | The Spaniards when they conquered Mexico were impressed by the effectiveness attributed to it by the indigenous population for treating pains in the sides and kidneys . |
| 12 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 13 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 14 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 15 | As we have seen , however , trade-unionism failed to take root less because of intelligentsia influence than because of the constraints placed upon it by the tsarist State . |
| 16 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 17 | There seems to be a strong argument now that the provisions of Regulation 5 of the UK Transfer Regulations , in so far as they make the transfer of the contract of employment compulsory on the employee as well as the employer , are ultra vires and so susceptible to judicial review , in the sense that the government in making the Regulations exceeded the powers conferred on it by the European Communities Act 1972 to make law by delegated legislation . |
| 18 | ‘ the High Court , Court of Session or High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland , as the case may be , shall have the powers conferred on it by the following provisions of this Act . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The value of a symbolic good depends upon the value which is assigned to it by the relevant consumer community . |
| 20 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 21 | The recent report of the National Foundation for Educational Research did not attribute any decline to the national curriculum ; the interpretation placed on it by the hon. Lady and her hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Southall ( Mr. Bidwell ) is based on a deliberate misreading of the report . |
| 22 | It 's made from a hardwearing fabric and can be wiped clean from the trials and tribulations inflicted on it by the rough and tumble of everyday use . |
| 23 | In February a US district court rejected a petition by Westinghouse Electric Corp. , a US firm alleged to have used bribery in 1976 to win the contract to construct the Bataan power station , to dismiss the case filed against it by the Philippine government . |
| 24 | She was pitchforked into it by the early death of her husband James V. But this woman from France made sure that she learned about the country she would control . |
| 25 | NOT LEAST among the fascinations of the recent Headingley Test was the differing coverage accorded to it by the four main daily newspapers . |
| 26 | Even if it may be some time before they are commercially acceptable , pioneer work is essential if our planet is to feed the teeming millions of people who will live on it by the twenty-first century . |