Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 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 | 6.2 Each centre has received a proforma showing the courses for which it presented candidates in session 1988–89 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Newmill-1 followed in 1971 and reached 6500 ft in the Lower Permian Sandstone , near the top of which it encountered traces of gas ; further traces were found in the Sherwood Sandstone . |
| 6 | The JUSTICE report , A Proposal for a Suitors ' Fund , advocates a more radical reform by suggesting that public funds should be used to indemnify litigants against ‘ faults in the system ’ amongst which it included appeals on fact or law . |
| 7 | It was an English union , based in London and not affiliated to the STA , with whom it had dealings only within the NPKTF . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | But now the frequency with which it hits waves will be higher , since it is travelling towards the source of the waves . |
| 11 | Make says it will sell direct , rather than via the hardware manufacturers with which it has relationships . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This — masked in various ways — is at the root of a good many problems which demand attention from social workers and all too often the manner in which it develops runs along sexual lines , especially with girls . |
| 17 | Last night the organisation issued a statement in which it vowed attacks on jail staff would continue until the current dispute in the Maze prison is resolved . |
| 18 | Since that date , however , the government has dragged its heels over permanent legislation , and is giving preferential treatment to commercial stations from which it collects taxes . |
| 19 | The less welcome offeror has to specify the questions to which it requires answers . |
| 20 | Briefly , the method judges the importance of information by the extent to which it changes investors ' expectations about profit , which is reflected by changes in stock prices oround the day the information is announced . |
| 21 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | One of the most refreshing aspects of our society is the extent to which it despises lawyers . |
| 23 | What made this trade especially useful was the small extent to which it depended on re-exports and the very great extent to which it brought markets for English manufacturers , especially in woollen and worsted textiles of the lighter and cheaper kinds . |
| 24 | Specific ideas on which it sought views were that preparatory advice given before the granting of a legal aid order should be claimed and paid for under that order and not the green form scheme , and that welfare benefit entitlement work should either be limited to a fixed fee or excluded altogether . |
| 25 | In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship . |