Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
| 2 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 3 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 4 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 5 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
| 6 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 7 | Thus the time spent on the settling-down and clearing-up stages varied from 7 to 45 per cent of the total session , and the introductory stage varied similarly , largely because some teachers treated it as a purely administrative matter to be dealt with as succinctly as possible , while others incorporated it into the session as the whole-class teaching in an arrangement otherwise dominated by group work . |
| 8 | His blood-soaked body was still warm when officers found it near the A30 road on Wednesday night . |
| 9 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |