Example sentences of "it by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called it by the splendid portmanteau name Geheimschriifmachine — ‘ secret-writing machine ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 4 | There seems to be a strong argument now that the provisions of Regulation 5 of the UK Transfer Regulations , in so far as they make the transfer of the contract of employment compulsory on the employee as well as the employer , are ultra vires and so susceptible to judicial review , in the sense that the government in making the Regulations exceeded the powers conferred on it by the European Communities Act 1972 to make law by delegated legislation . |
| 5 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) The value of a symbolic good depends upon the value which is assigned to it by the relevant consumer community . |
| 7 | Now assign a system-wide logical name to the storage directory ; you will always refer to it by the logical name from within LIFESPAN . |
| 8 | As we have seen , however , trade-unionism failed to take root less because of intelligentsia influence than because of the constraints placed upon it by the tsarist State . |
| 9 | ‘ the High Court , Court of Session or High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland , as the case may be , shall have the powers conferred on it by the following provisions of this Act . |
| 10 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 11 | However , no sooner was the intrigue launched than Baldwin killed it by the simple expedient of deciding to remain in office and meet Parliament . |
| 12 | He was handsome in an altogether splendid way and probably knew it by the haughty way he behaved . |
| 13 | She was pitchforked into it by the early death of her husband James V. But this woman from France made sure that she learned about the country she would control . |
| 14 | All stored configurable items are owned by the UIC of the LIFESPAN Process , so to estimate disk quota for a LIFESPAN Process , calculate the size of your total data storage requirements , multiply it by the average number of versions you intend to hold on-line , and add approximately 15000 blocks . |
| 15 | Didyma was a coastal port near to the important city of Miletos ( page 143 ) , connected to it by the sacred road . |
| 16 | They always play it by the bloody book . ’ |
| 17 | Quite apart from the drafting of contracts the task of the engineer involves a great deal of communication , much of it by the written word . |
| 18 | Now , you can have it by the written word and the spoken word , but I think the links we must continually have all the time are personal links , talking to people . |
| 19 | ‘ Where did you find this then , ma'am ? ’ asked the sergeant , taking the photo from Blanche and studying it by the map-reading light . |
| 20 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 21 | It is said that Mr Shamir appointed Rehavam Zeevi , who runs a party called Moledat ( Homeland ) , as minister-without-portfolio in his inner cabinet mainly for coalition reasons : he wanted to increase his narrow majority and to avoid being attacked from outside it by the extreme right . |
| 22 | The Spaniards when they conquered Mexico were impressed by the effectiveness attributed to it by the indigenous population for treating pains in the sides and kidneys . |
| 23 | For when God freely wills to take on Himself the world 's suffering , He does so in order to absorb it , to transform it and to overcome it by the positive power of His eternal and unchanging love . |
| 24 | How do we go to the the form , a number plus times it by the convex conjugate , is sub three minus four I , three minus four I , and what we get is three minus four I , over twenty five , eh , that sound reasonable to three twenty fifths , minus four twenty fifths high and that 's Q , I , and one over Z square or the second bit , several ways to do this , what you can do is work out what the square is first , so if I do a little aside Z square , it 's three plus four I square , which is nine plus three forty five , twenty four I , plus sixteen I square , which is twenty four I , divide seven , who 's that , so one over Z square is one over , minus seven plus twenty four I . |
| 25 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 26 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 27 | The belief he gets will be true , because he will have been caused to get it by the very fact ( that what 's in the pot is honey ) which makes it true . |
| 28 | Just put it by the back door . |
| 29 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 30 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |