Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 2 | ‘ Curious ’ , after all , meant ‘ investigative ’ when the Earl of Hyndford used it of Thomas Goldney III , and that is what universities are meant to be about . |
| 3 | The original impulse had been non-denominational , but by the late 1790s the Anglican Church was drawing apart to go its own way , fearful that Methodism especially was gaining converts and even , as the Bishop of Rochester expressed it in 1800 : " Schools of Jacobinical religion and Jacobinical politics abound in this country in the shape of charity schools and Sunday schools . " |
| 4 | The Church of Scotland bought it in 1960 for £27,500 and opened it as an eventide home two years later . |
| 5 | Speaking at the University of Loughborough in October 1986 , the Governor of the Bank of England explained it as the outcome of ‘ deregulation ’ and subsequent ‘ structural changes ’ in financial markets . |
| 6 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 7 | In 1985 , its Labour majority was bigger than that of the Tories and the people of Derbyshire re-elected it in 1989 : they are satisfied with Derbyshire county council 's policies , and when we have the general election they will kick out the Under-Secretary of State and the hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) , the man with the Pampers on . |
| 8 | In 1874 the Bishop of Beverley adopted it as a public institution and the Bishops of England passed a resolution to recognise St. John 's Institution as a Catholic Institution for England and to assist in the cost of its foundation . |
| 9 | He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 . |
| 10 | The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . " |
| 11 | At the end of April 1686 the Tory lord mayor of Bristol took it upon his own initiative to disturb the celebration of the mass by a group of English Catholics , committing the priest and all those present to prison . |
| 12 | Jackie Out of Soho reviews it in short exclamation-marked bursts |
| 13 | Steve Claridge of Witney made it from start to finish … |
| 14 | The spirit of God reveals it to him … ‘ |
| 15 | In the following year the duc de Richelieu , the French chief minister , sent an agent to Switzerland , Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to report on the press there and the possibility of France influencing it in her favour . |
| 16 | Severn Mill occupied what was possibly an ancient site , recorded as Garne Mill during the 13th century , when the Abbot of Flaxley granted it to Henry of Bath . |
| 17 | Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy tell it like it is to ANDY KERSHAW before Kitchens of Distinction and Babes In Toyland join JOHN PEEL . |
| 18 | Many famous people came to view the grandiose exhibition : the Prince of Wales judged it to be ‘ an ornament to the nation ’ , as indeed it was to become . |
| 19 | Adnams of Southwold stocks it for £8.45 and also supplies by mail order ( 0502 724222 ) . |
| 20 | Tonight the Minister of the big Methodist church in the township of Harare opened it for people of all colours and creeds to come and pray and find God 's plan . |