Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many centuries it remained in the hands mainly of the monastic houses , where there was always a physic garden containing the herbs required by the prevailing medical incumbent . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the doubts it casts on the multitude of extensive verbatim passages in Johanson 's engaging account , this and other changes make one wonder whether legal evidence has become a consideration in reporting scientific expeditions . |
| 3 | In creating specialist organists or choir trainers it contributes to the achievement of the highest musical standards , but does not generally offer all-round experience . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc has signed a long-term lease for three buildings in Chelmsford , Massachusetts to consolidate the four existing offices it has in the state . |
| 5 | To my eyes it looks like the pattern , though I know with my head that it 's the background . |
| 6 | The tribunal was told that , following a review , the company decided to make redundant 16 drivers at the quarries it operated in the East Midlands . |
| 7 | In retrospect it is hard to judge the extent to which the success of this policy ( and , for all the worries it caused at the time , it was a success by comparison with the economy management disasters of the 1960s and 1970s ) was due to good management , and the extent to which it was due to external and internal economic factors outside government control , in particular to the postwar recovery and the stimulus provided by the continuing military activity of the ‘ cold war ’ . |
| 8 | Should Japan be restricted in the number of cars it sells in the UK ? |
| 9 | As the company wants to increase the number of cars it sells in the UK rather than maximise profits , that is likely to mean price cuts . |
| 10 | It is concerned with what is possible in the context of the strengths and weaknesses of the company and the threats and opportunities it perceives in the world outside the company , the environment in which it operates . |
| 11 | It is necessary that the people of Northern Ireland fully appreciate the importance to the community of the Constitutional Convention , and the opportunities it offers to the public and its elected representatives to determine the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | ‘ Practice ’ need not be eschewed as part of higher education ; but its presence in the curriculum must be justified in terms of the opportunities it affords for the student 's critical reflection . |
| 13 | Where we believe the orthodox account to be seriously misleading is in the causal relationships it postulates between the different factors , and especially its explanation of prison riots . |
| 14 | The vision of the fabliaux offered by R. Howard Bloch ( 1986 ) seems to fit this definition squarely : he sees fabliau narrative as the origin and catalyst of sexual desire ; in reading , or writing , the fabliaux , sexual experience is purely linguistic : " " if any pleasure is attached to sex in the fabliaux it comes from the deferral in speech , of speech , substituting for the act " " . |
| 15 | I think that is a , there is a need to look into this , it is an area where we have n't looked into at the moment , and when you consider the valuable work that our staff in the D S O organisation does , and the profit it makes for this county council , and the savings it makes for the county council , it would be sensible for us to also look into building maintenance as well . |
| 16 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 17 | Fundamentally , the program must present the demands it makes on the class as worthwhile , achievable and preferably , enjoyable . |
| 18 | Jardines has threatened that , unless the regulators leave it alone , it may delist the shares of companies it controls from the local stock exchange — 14% of the market 's capitalisation . |
| 19 | Its ability to trap dust , the ease with which stale and fresh foam can be kept separate without mutual diffusion , and the barriers it offers to the spread of flame or explosion , are all points in its favour . |
| 20 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |
| 21 | But the only thing that was important about the film was its length and the ill omens it offered for the future . |
| 22 | Although the company has now withdrawn , the trails it cut into the park have opened the area up to illegal mining , hunting and logging . |
| 23 | ‘ If there are any advantages it comes from the background . |
| 24 | This is indeed unfortunate , for Williamson , perhaps more than any other writer , accurately described the experience of the common man in the trenches and the lingering and traumatic effects it had on the survivors of the experience . |
| 25 | Such disruption and the effects it had on the life and economy of Egypt fuelled resentment against British domination . |
| 26 | The reader is shown many bad marriages through the course of the novel and the disastrous effects it causes in the upbringing of children . |
| 27 | Now the thing with the bar-tailed lark is that it just lives in the desert where nothing else does and to complicate matters it lives in the forbidden zone . |
| 28 | The key to an understanding of relief-giving is in the functions it serves for the larger economic and political order , for relief is a secondary and supportive institution . |
| 29 | Although hundreds of identified Spitfires are recorded in the book as having been transported to Malta either in their holds or openly on the decks of many named cargo ships , it was interesting to note that the Author could find no mention in Spitfire — The History of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp nor of the serialled Spitfires it transported to the Mediterranean in 1942 for the defence of Malta . |
| 30 | The party captured three seats in total , winning back the two seats it lost after the resignations of James Rodgers and daughter Glenda . |