Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] it [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Their first goal was down to a mistake and the second was so easy for them it defies belief . |
| 2 | The board holds the funds in escrow for five years , during which it releases amounts only for attorney 's fees , and in some cases , for expenses incurred in earning the literary income . |
| 3 | The problem with the Met service can swiftly be seen by studying the list of 42 airfields for which it offers TAFs , above . |
| 4 | Traditionally , the data processing department has been an organisational entity — independent of all the user departments for which it processes information . |
| 5 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 6 | That class qualifies as a species because all the members will breed with other members of the class , but not with plants from outside the class ; but there would be no justification for saying that the class also represented a genus and a family , if the larger taxonomy of which it forms part did not exhibit branching at these levels . |
| 7 | We may define a social movement , in broad terms , as a collective endeavour to promote or resist change in the society of which it forms part ; l but this statement needs to be qualified in some way if we are to retain a clear distinction between a ‘ movement ’ and a ‘ party ’ . |
| 8 | Example 4:1 Clause preventing landlord from charging VAT in the event that the landlord elects to waive any exemption from value added tax in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part , no value added tax shall be added to the rent reserved by this lease Example 4:2 Clause preventing landlord from waiving exemption from VAT ( 1 ) not to elect to waive any exemption from VAT in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part ( 2 ) on any assignment of the whole or part of the reversion expectant on this lease , or the grant of any concurrent lease of the whole or part of the property , to procure that the assignee or lessee gives a covenant in the terms of this clause |
| 9 | Example 4:1 Clause preventing landlord from charging VAT in the event that the landlord elects to waive any exemption from value added tax in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part , no value added tax shall be added to the rent reserved by this lease Example 4:2 Clause preventing landlord from waiving exemption from VAT ( 1 ) not to elect to waive any exemption from VAT in relation to the demised property or the building of which it forms part ( 2 ) on any assignment of the whole or part of the reversion expectant on this lease , or the grant of any concurrent lease of the whole or part of the property , to procure that the assignee or lessee gives a covenant in the terms of this clause |
| 10 | Likud has consistently argued that it wants to deal only with local inhabitants of what it calls Judea and Samaria ( the West Bank and Gaza ) . |
| 11 | The world price of tin collapsed in 1985 , plummeting to less than half of what it costs Bolivia to mine it . |
| 12 | Buckinghamshire Social Services would n't comment on this particular boy , but did point out that in cases like his it shares responsibility with the parents … |
| 13 | The door is closed to new members , and the membership protects itself against what it calls Proliferation with wire , guns , attack dogs , certainly , but above all with a suffocating cloak of secrecy . |
| 14 | This chapter deals with two distinct aspects of the relationship between a firm and the persons with whom it does business . |
| 15 | The real threat of hypocrisy to the Christian community , as indeed to all others , is the impenetrability with which it conceals evil . |
| 16 | The bee-eater 's beak is slender and apparently delicate , a pair of slim forceps with which it plucks bees and other insects from the air . |
| 17 | Where the English Law Society is introducing measures to ‘ alert the profession to the gravity with which it considers matters of discrimination , ’ its Scottish counterpart recently observed that ‘ guidance or rules ( on discrimination ) for the legal profession are not necessary . ’ |
| 18 | The department is closely linked with the Royal Observatory with which it shares accommodation and world class research facilities . |
| 19 | But now the frequency with which it hits waves will be higher , since it is travelling towards the source of the waves . |
| 20 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 21 | We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress . |
| 22 | The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers and has decided to revert to supplying employers with booklets containing payslips which relate to one deduction year ( p 103 ) . |
| 23 | The Inland Revenue has reviewed the arrangements under which it issues booklets of payslips spanning two deduction years to employers , a considerable number of whom had complained . |
| 24 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 25 | It must be even-handed in the way in which it reduces effort , understandable , believeable and flexible enough to be realistic . |
| 26 | For example , Kaelin 's ( 1968 ) notion of ‘ surface ’ and ‘ depth ’ counters is particularly relevant for the way in which it separates aspects of a direct sensory , perceptual nature from those referring to imaginative content , based upon observations of a cognitive or conceptual kind . |
| 27 | At this point , the weapon 's guidance system switches into a preprogrammed routine in which it selects data about the particular target that it is aiming for . |
| 28 | In essence , a new unincorporated business will pay tax in the tax year in which its first accounting period ends ( rather than the year in which it commences trade under the present system ) , but will pay tax on at least a full year 's profit in the tax year in which it ceases to trade . |
| 29 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 30 | It relates punishment to the economic structure of the society in which it takes place and to the class interests furthered by penal practices and ideologies . |