Example sentences of "[noun sg] to it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stotting ’ has a certain ring to it for the waterfall-collection game . |
| 2 | The story has a familiar ring to it in the sense that women are seldom encouraged to be in top positions at work the world over . |
| 3 | The decision to accord a full chapter to it in the Constitution on the Church , and prior to that on the hierarchy , was symbolically one of the most important the Council ever took . |
| 4 | If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) . |
| 5 | We rested quietly and most comfortably in Sligachan Inn , than which I can not imagine a better retreat in the early summer of late autumn , either before or after the great throng , who , coming from north and south to it in the height of the tourist season , make it a place of stir . |
| 6 | On the other hand it was the submission of Mr. Collins for Wickes that the function of the undertaking in damages required of the council by the Court of Appeal was to protect the right of Wickes which flowed from the direct effect of article 30 , in the event of the European Court of Justice holding , on the reference to it of the Stoke-on-Trent case [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , that section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 was invalid because it was inconsistent with article 30 . |
| 7 | It is a Possessed kind of joke , inconceivable in Crime and Punishment , and there was no reference to it in the version of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ submitted to Katkov initially . |
| 8 | It must have been the most bewildering social change since the Enclosures , and yet I can find no reference to it in the village School Log . |
| 9 | But , having regard to the passage from the judgment of the European Court in the Francovich case which I have just quoted , it is in my opinion right that in the present case your Lordships should proceed on the basis that if , on the reference to it in the Stoke-on-Trent case [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , the court should hold that section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 is invalid as being in conflict with article 30 of the Treaty , the United Kingdom may be obliged to make good damage caused to individuals by the breach of article 30 for which it is responsible . |
| 10 | Not even Wallace had been to Bouton , and we were unable to find any reference to it in the literature . |
| 11 | Bede 's reference to it in the context of the situation in 731 could suggest , on balance , that it was concluded when Ceolwulf became king or very soon after . |
| 12 | That one of Æthelred 's chief ministers received an uncomplimentary name increases the likelihood that the king did so too , and there is possibly a reference to it in the chronicler 's sarcastic or despairing comment on Edmund 's reconciliation with Eadric in 1016 , " there was never worse unræd counselled than that " ; J.C . |
| 13 | Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church . |
| 14 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 15 | A fine example of Egyptian art of the 18th Dynasty , Carter himself thought this piece important and drew attention to it in the catalogue that he compiled for the Amherst sale . |
| 16 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 17 | The place smelt of oil , paint , damp and slow failure , and Marriage himself sat with his back to it in the cold sunshine , looking across to the willows and alders of the far bank and the fields beyond . |
| 18 | First , s402(6) allows Target to pay up to £100 as consideration for the surrender to it of the £100 group relief , which would be sufficient to meet Newco 's interest obligation . |
| 19 | Lay the curtain out flat with the interlining uppermost and apply the hemmed lining to it in the same way as for Lined Curtains , but lockstitching along the same lines as the interlining and along all seams . |
| 20 | The annexe need not have been roofed , although there was access to it from the main part of the building . |
| 21 | And further : We can , in summary , at the very least draw this conclusion : that it is , by reference to modern biological thought , a tenable view of society which — so long as its component classes are not exclusive — sees advantage to it in the variety of aptitudes and attitudes implied by class structure in a mixture of co-operation and competition between them . |
| 22 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
| 23 | I shall venture my own response to it in the final chapter . |
| 24 | Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future . |
| 25 | Exposure to it in the speech of their peers from the age of four or five is , surprising as this may seem , not sufficient . |
| 26 | And are you confident that the friendly brand of computer is coming fairly soon , or is there resistance to it amongst the professionals ? |
| 27 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 28 | The word itself is derived from two Greek words : holos and kaustos ; the former , ‘ wholeness ’ , has a tragically ironic edge to it in the light of Leonard 's concerns for ‘ oneness ’ . |
| 29 | The truth acquired a logic and an ordinariness , until in the end her blindness to it in the past became puzzling to comprehend . |
| 30 | Every sojourner in Fort William simply must pay a visit to Glen Nevis , even giving preference to it over the train journey to Mallaig if time is limited . |