Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 7 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 8 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 9 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 10 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | An image copy of the Working-Set is taken whenever a new dictionary range is transferred to it from the Main Database . |
| 16 | . 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks . |
| 19 | Didyma was a coastal port near to the important city of Miletos ( page 143 ) , connected to it by the sacred road . |
| 20 | The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place . |
| 21 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 22 | What is the first thing we 're told about it in the third stanza ? |
| 23 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 24 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 25 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 26 | This was the line taken by the No More War Movement , and most of the socialist left agreed with it in the early 1930s . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |