Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every penny he was paying he was having grant for it from the government Aye . |
| 2 | Not only did it have the broad ideological stamp of approval from Marx and Engels themselves , but the preparation for it within Romania had started already in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 5 | But the outbreak of hostilities changed all of his plans ; there would be no audience for a new play , and certainly no opportunity for it to be staged , while the conflict continued . |
| 6 | From the outset the wide impact of the ban was and anticipate , the experiment has given me opportunity for it to be tested on the ground so that future decision can be taken objectively . |
| 7 | We understand from the Office of Fair Trading and the Consumer Credit Sub-Committee of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration that — although there is clearly opportunity for it within the close-knit personal relationship between the check trader and the customer — exploitation of customers seems very rare . |
| 8 | A constitutional amendment first proposed in 1789 , designed to prohibit a Congress from voting pay rises for itself while in session , finally achieved during May the approval of enough states for it to be incorporated in the Constitution . |
| 9 | We need to examine the case for it in relation to each and every old person , whose circumstances vary so greatly . |
| 10 | We may never see one another again , but nobody cares , because there 's no provision for it in the rules . |
| 11 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 12 | The School Government Regulations even allow the governors to decide that any matter ‘ by reason of its nature ’ should be treated as confidential and so exclude papers and minutes about it from public scrutiny . |
| 13 | Some alliances between , say , a Fenwick of Tynedale and a Croser of Teviotdale might ensure a lull in raiding and cattle thieving for a while , though there was usually an excuse for it to be resumed at fairly short notice . |
| 14 | I do n't like it when presentation screens are multiloaded before each level though — that 's just waste of time , and there 's certainly no excuse for it in a game like Sly Spy . |
| 15 | I later found out that the school had enquired at the house after the girl 's continued absence and been given some plausible excuse for it by the father . |
| 16 | She brings her notes about it to the meeting and reads them out . |
| 17 | Kaleida will initially be housed at Apple 's headquarters , but there are plans for it to be relocated to Silicon Valley later in the year . |
| 18 | There are no spare frequencies for it between bands B , C and D. Unofficially it is expected that when finally allocated , Band A will coincide with Band D ( 40–90 kHz ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He would send notices of the book to his old school magazine and quietly pin up adverts for it in all the gentlemen 's clubs in London . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 23 | Professor Hayek recognises that a free-enterprise economy requires the presence of strong moral standards of a particular kind for it to work : the two crucial ones being a belief in individual responsibility and a recognition that the merit and worth of individuals do not correspond to the material rewards of the market economy . |
| 24 | The lines of his short-cropped ruthless hair were disturbed , as though he had forgotten to comb it that morning or else , having combed , had continually run his fingers through it since then . |
| 25 | She ran her fingers through it in exasperation . |
| 26 | Most college teachers are more down-to-earth : solid citizens and safe , intellectual craft workers , who mostly know and love their subject well enough to wish to share their enthusiasm for it with their students . |
| 27 | An EC regulation in the United Kingdom does not require further legislation in Parliament for it to be enforceable . |
| 28 | Intel is also developing a software version of Digital Video Interactive and working with Microsoft Corp to build support for it into Microsoft 's Audio Visual Interleave software , which Microsoft plans to announce at Comdex/Fall next month in a package called Video for Windows . |
| 29 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 30 | By January 1987 , when it was clear that X Window really worked across multi-vendor networks , there was a joint statement of support for it by Apollo , Data General , DEC , Hewlett-Packard , Masscomp , Siemens and Sony , amongst others ( not IBM ) . |