Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems odd , in retrospect , to see governments delegating so passively their most important educational function , but there were two main reasons for it at the time . |
| 2 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 3 | She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out . |
| 4 | When the switch is closed , the full available current flows through it to the load but again no power is dissipated in the switch since the voltage across it is zero . |
| 5 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 6 | They ate well , but she got little thanks for it from the mistress of the hut . |
| 7 | Where a plaintiff 's claim arises out of a hire-purchase agreement , but is not for the delivery of goods , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods let under the agreement ; ( 6 ) the amount of the total price ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as being due and unpaid in respect of any instalment or instalments of the total price ; and ( 9 ) the nature and amount of any other claim and the circumstances in which it arises . |
| 8 | What I recommend you , you look at , I do n't think it 's on your reading list , no it 's not , it 's not on your reading list , but there are copies of it in the library . |
| 9 | ‘ Loads of it on the desk , ’ said Nooty . |
| 10 | Splashes of it had hit the wall behind the basin and there were three oval blots of it on the floor . |
| 11 | A fervent follower of the tariff reform movement of Joseph Chamberlain [ q.v. ] , he began to write leaders and articles for the Morning Post under the editorship of his friend ( Sir ) Fabian Ware [ q.v. ] ; in 1906 he wrote articles for it during the course of a journey through Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and South Africa . |
| 12 | We wrote columns about it at the time and no two people appear to agree . |
| 13 | The piste was crossed now and then by gullies of sand and ran along the foot of the escarpment , which towered several hundred feet above it to the left . |
| 14 | The British Telecommunications Act 1981 established BT as a public corporation and transferred telecommunication functions to it from the Post Office . |
| 15 | Fresh spring air was quite popular in Walworth after the fogs of winter , but Dolly had her reservations about it at the moment . |
| 16 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 17 | As chancellor he inherited an economy with the skids under it after the Barber years . |
| 18 | It comes naturally to some people , but there should be night-school classes in it for the rest of us . |
| 19 | Even so , there was competition for places in it towards the end of her reign , and many of the ageing Chamber officers were trying to bring in their own relatives as their successors . |
| 20 | The Convento de San Esteban is a magnificent plateresque sixteenth-century edifice on the Plaza Santo Domingo , approached by a small arched bridge which provides an impressive forefront to that immense carved façade , with the arcaded convent standing at right angles to it on the right . |
| 21 | There is a resigned look from Ann and Tony , but John and I ( the more English pair ? ) take ice axes and haul a small berg ashore , beating lumps off it for the tea . |
| 22 | The decimal point keeps its place with two figures behind it to the right . |
| 23 | There are no breaks in it in the sense of special divine interventions ; and while every event is in its own way particular , individual and unique , none is qualitatively of a wholly different kind from all others . |
| 24 | The following example opens a file and prints to it via the Printer Filter . |
| 25 | In the early 1770s Sulivan promoted the career of Warren Hastings [ q.v. ] as a reforming governor of Bengal , but he was unable to prevent a major loss of the Company 's autonomy when the government took powers over it in the Regulating Act of 1773 . |
| 26 | Her hair would have got blonde streaks in it from the sun . |
| 27 | The plaintiff used to spread a cloth over his elephantoid scrotum and sell sweetmeats from it to the passersby . |
| 28 | From the survey , it would seem that many bureaux which own the microfilm system find many uses for it within the bureau when it has not been taken out for an outreach advice session ; it is used for training purposes in order to demonstrate access to and use of information in CAB advice work and it is also used for giving talks to outside groups . |
| 29 | With the hill and the dark masses of the trees behind it to the south , the place does n't get any sunlight in winter and not that much even in summer . |
| 30 | In a speech to the General People 's Congress on June 17 Kadhafi responded : " To hell with Britain and relations with it until the day of judgement … |