Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 2 | For the Americans it was the first declaration in a film that love for pleasure is not sin . |
| 3 | Whereas the " close US-UK association [ was ] the most important single factor in British foreign policy " , for the Americans it was sufficient to reassert the value of the " association " . |
| 4 | If all this bland fare has dulled your appetite for the prints it is time you reminded yourself how glorious they can be by a visit to THE LUCY B CAMPBELL GALLERY , 123 Kensington Church Street , W8 . |
| 5 | For the Conservatives it would probably be the Rolling Stone , Bill Wyman , singing medleys from Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 6 | for the Mensheviks it was crucial that the Party should not risk isolation from the class it sought to represent . |
| 7 | For the girls it is an unassailable tradition . |
| 8 | Many of these were destined to become miners in their turn , but for the girls it was the problem of finding a good husband and the inevitable hardship of raising a family . |
| 9 | It may not quite be a Booker Prize contender is in itself but for the memories it brings back it is a wonder . |
| 10 | The Gofer concept provides good mobile flexible staff help , just for the times it is needed . |
| 11 | For the Dwarfs it was a disaster . |
| 12 | For the Dwarfs it was a much needed respite . |
| 13 | Whilst the home authority can plan and contract for the services it identifies as being required to meet the needs of its population , it is not clear who will decide which individuals will receive these services . |
| 14 | However , fundamental ways of reducing the size of public expenditure would require the government to find new ways of charging for the services it provides , or to dismantle the Welfare State . |
| 15 | The rest of the money that British Rail has available should be spent on projects that are desperately needed to provide jam today , not tomorrow , for the commuters who are paying British Rail for the services it offers today . |
| 16 | For the ten-year-olds this score was 1.86 , and for the seven-year-olds it was 4.25 , a difference that was statistically significant . |
| 17 | This is intended to mean that the object is attended to , and in some sense ‘ enjoyed ’ , for itself , ‘ for its own sake ’ , for the qualities it possesses in itself as apprehended , and which arouse our attention and interest ( p. 4 ) . |
| 18 | No , that 'll be al , I , I just have n't got a clue what to what to get him , I , I mean I 'm still stuck for father women I , I seem to be getting on quite well for the women it 's just finding some |
| 19 | For the women it 's not a pleasant posting . |
| 20 | Jobs for the boys it was . |
| 21 | Around fifteen thousand spectators came to watch the thrills and spills … for the organisers it proved another successful Classic . |
| 22 | AN ABA title is the ultimate target of the boxers at tonight 's North-East Counties championships finals ; for the organisers it 's a new van . |
| 23 | But is Mr Kinnock wise , having trimmed — having trimmed to a wiser policy , but all the same egregiously trimmed — is he wise to insist that the British people respect Labour for the changes it has made ? |
| 24 | Shown concurrently , and devised to complement each other , both were informed by Rozsika parker 's work : the historical exhibition with its insistence on a social context for embroidery in which class and gender are central ; the contemporary exhibition for the questions it attempted to pose about the relationship between women , textiles , and femininity , and , implicitly , the hierarchical and gendered value system of the visual arts . |
| 25 | All the same , Americans are naturally most comfortable with what they know , and Mr Major 's win is obviously welcome to people in power — both for reassuring them about their closest ally in Europe and for the omens it casts on their own politics . |
| 26 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 27 | To the unaccustomed visitor , it might seem frightening , but for the locals it 's nothing unusual — a part of everyday life . |
| 28 | If anything should have shaken up a national psyche for the Germans it was World War two and what it did to them . |
| 29 | The vehicle provides increased armoured protection from artillery fire and certain anti-tank weapons for the soldiers it carries , and its special air filtration system enables the crew to survive closed-down inside the vehicle when nuclear , chemical and biological weapons have been used . |
| 30 | Investment in education promotes economic growth but Britain has failed to use the opportunities offered by oil to prepare its economy for the challenges it now has to meet . |