Example sentences of "[vb pp] to it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was held that the applicants lacked a sufficient interest in the matter because the Revenue had acted within the discretion permitted to it in the day-to-day administration of the tax system . |
| 4 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 5 | . 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Didyma was a coastal port near to the important city of Miletos ( page 143 ) , connected to it by the sacred road . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence . |
| 10 | 14.2 No Party shall sub-contract any part of the work under the Project assigned to it without the prior written approval of all Parties . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) The value of a symbolic good depends upon the value which is assigned to it by the relevant consumer community . |
| 12 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 13 | Trudgill writes : speakers are not capable of acquiring the correct underlying phonological distinction unless they are exposed to it from the very beginning , before they themselves have even begun to speak . |
| 14 | When they dined together at the Perroquet in March 1951 , they talked among other things about ‘ British painting and what had happened to it since the high hopes of the war ’ . |
| 15 | In one set of studies stimulus A was the onset of a light and the target response acquired to it in the intermediate phase of training was a conditioned eye-blink reinforced by an air-puff unconditioned stimulus . |