Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] it by the " in BNC.

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1 On the evening of Jan. 12 it was announced that the existing six-member High Security Council had that day , by virtue of a mandate to preserve continuity given it by the Constitutional Council , resolved " that it is impossible to continue the election process until the necessary conditions are fulfilled for the normal functioning of institutions " .
2 It certainly did n't merit the name given it by the Danes , who invented it .
3 The profession has managed to offer CPD on a shoestring up until the mid-1980s but henceforth some funding will have to be found if it is to fulfil the role given it by the membership .
4 This chapter is intended to illustrate the operation of community policing in Easton , and in the process to assess the commitment given it by the ordinary policemen and women who carry it out , looking separately at the units responsible for community relations and neighbourhood policing .
5 The favour shown it by the Mongols had enabled it to consolidate its position across Russia long before the Muscovite State managed to do so .
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