Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The program file contains a series of instructions which it sends to the Central Processor Unit ( CPU ) when the program is run .
2 In mounting this exhibition , the National Gallery is correcting a bias which it perceives in the content and popularity of the British collections and continuing its reassessment of Northern European art , already apparent from its recent acquisitions policy .
3 The aphid has a proboscis which it inserts into the tomato in order to suck out its juices — a vampire-like attack which cripples the growing tomato .
4 Secondly , this performance measure is somewhat crude ; it measures whether the correct word was chosen or not , irrespective of the score or margin by which it succeeded over the other candidates .
5 It catches several eel-pout and a couple of butterfish which it eats on the surface , sometimes holding the fish between its forepaws in order to control their writhing .
6 There can not be a moment from which it passes from the class of invalid into that of valid covenants " .
7 Which it does in the UK , e.g. 20% on the first f2,000 of taxable income 25% on taxable income up to f23,700 and 40% on higher income ( 1992/3 )
8 Once sand starts to move on the foreshore , which it does by the process of saltation , it will tend to be trapped by shingle patches , by piles of drifted debris , or by tufts of a coarse grass , Agropyron junceiforme .
9 Under a new agreement signed between Morocco and the EC on March 21 , 1990 , Spain would pay Morocco compensation for the economic damage which it suffered during the blockade of Algeciras which was normally extensively used by Morocco , and certain matters pertaining to fines were clarified .
10 Finally , the company donated part of a site which it owned on the shores of Loughrea Lake , to the town of Loughrea …
11 Her hair was long , and it was impossible to tell the place at which it merged with the fabric .
12 The substantial advances which it made on the earlier law were two :
13 None of this meant that war was a rare or unimportant phenomenon in the eighteenth century or that the demands which it made on the peoples of Europe were negligible .
14 They claimed that Saibou 's government had failed to keep promises which it made on the conditions for their return .
15 The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild .
16 Each differs in the outcomes which it selects as the most important ones to be studied .
17 What remains is released into an elaborate system of drains , penstocks , pumps , flumes , and concrete-sided irrigation ditches , from which it emerges at the Mexican border , severely depleted and laden with salts and pesticides .
18 Paul Thompson ( 1967 ) sees the triumph of Labour as a constructive coalescence of the mature proletarian class consciousness which emerged with the displacement of small-scale production and an effective LLP , while Julia Bush ( 1978 ) , concentrating on the experience of East London , argues that during the first world war socialist activity and the growing confidence and strength of the trades unions enabled the LLP to establish a solid base which it exploited to the full when hostilities ceased .
19 The summit also called for an end to the deadlock in Iran-Iraq peace talks , which it blamed on the " persistently negative stance and intransigence " of Iran .
20 write , you write and er feed into the thing which it operates along the rules defined by its firmware which someone else has put into it .
21 As one of the four original components of the US-administered UN Trust Territory of the Pacific , Belau had negotiated a Compact of Free Association with the USA , but this compact had never become operative , as the rights which it granted to the USA to determine defence and foreign policy issues conflicted with the clauses of Belau 's Constitution which forbade the entry , storage or disposal of nuclear , chemical or biological weapons .
22 In 1540 the house passed to Anne of Cleves as part of her settlement , after which it came into the hands of the Chauncy family .
23 Shafts sunk below it however , had to be pumped or baled , though the water needed only to be raised to Deep Adit , through which it ran to the open fell side .
24 There will be variations which stem from the background and cultural heritage of the children who are in attendance , from where the school is situated as well as the resources ( in quality and quantity ) which it receives from the local authority .
25 My hon. Friend is right to remind us that the Universities Funding Council has considerable funds which it receives from the Government and distributes partially for research-based purposes .
26 Finally , in view of the crucial part which the further education sector plays in the educational and economic well-being of Wales , not least in the way in which it caters for the indigenous population , it is regrettable that too big a gap still exists between it and the secondary school sector and too few Welshmen and women , particularly perhaps among those who are Welsh speaking , recognize its many achievements in the past and the vital contribution which it will be called upon to make in the future .
27 Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line .
28 ‘ All sins will be forgiven the sons of men , and whatever blasphemies they utter ; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness … for they said , ‘ He has an unclean spirit ’ ' More light is shed on this verse by the form in which it occurs in the ‘ Q ’ material ( sayings of Jesus preserved in Matthew and Luke independently of Mark ) .
29 Each distinct form of humanity had its origin at a particular point in space and time , from which it expanded throughout the world before collapsing in the face of pressure from a more highly evolved type .
30 Writing in the mid-1930s , he was thinking of the huge growth in the power of banks and oligopolies which it seemed beyond the capacity of Parliament to comprehend or to control .
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