Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 3 | Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " . |
| 4 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 5 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 6 | It is hard to divide up the Basque hinterland in any manageable way in order to describe it ; here , I shall stick to the three provinces recognized in it by the Basques themselves , of Labourd , Basse-Navarre and the Soule . |
| 7 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 8 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 10 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 11 | Central administration has been continually adapting itself to the new demands made upon it by the creation of services . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |
| 14 | Yet the West still seems determined to exclude Iran from regional security , no doubt because of United States irritation with the humiliation visited upon it during the Gulf war by the Islamic republic . |
| 15 | Next day Gabriel took the form of a monk and returned to the tree ; this time he found all three brothers lying under it in the shade and talking together , while the white blossom fell on them like snow . |
| 16 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 17 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 18 | An agent residing on each client provides the machine with operating operating parameters delivered to it from the application residing on an administrator 's host system . |
| 19 | Neil Spencer wrote about it in the New Musical Express beneath the headline ‘ Do n't Look Over Your Shoulder , But The Sex Pistols Are Coming . ’ |
| 20 | The voice could then be raised until the instrument responded to it above the level of the background noise . |
| 21 | The device driver then compresses any data saved to the disk and decompresses data read from it on the fly . |
| 22 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In his philosophy reality is the spiritual world contemplated by reason , the material world being a mere receptacle for the ideal forms imposed on it by the world-soul . |
| 25 | The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system . |
| 26 | Convocation has a role defined in the Charter : it may ‘ discuss and pronounce an opinion on any matters whatsoever relating to the University including any matters referred to it by the Court or the Council ’ . |
| 27 | But so long as the tribunal decides the question assigned to it by the law , its relative opinion will bind , subject to appeal . |
| 28 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 29 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 30 | The unwinding of such assistance ( repayment of loans given by the Bank to the market or resale to the market of bills bought from it by the Bank ) will drain market liquidity and will , of course , be known by the Bank in advance . |