Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 2 | As it tumbled through the air it stretched out its arms . |
| 3 | The dog landed awkwardly on its hindlegs , losing its balance , and he looked away sharply as it tumbled under the wheels . |
| 4 | It tumbled against the German mark — ending perilously close to its critical floor in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 5 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 6 | It agreed with the United States that Resolutions 242 and 338 were the benchmarks for a peaceful solution , but sharply disagreed over their interpretation . |
| 7 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 8 | It agreed with the clock . |
| 9 | On the latter basis , it agreed to the LRT acquisition of two lines covering several miles at Croydon , so acquiring a link between two stations on differing London lines — Wimbledon and West Croydon . |
| 10 | On 3 March 1919 he presented a paper to a conference of management committees of London societies , on the basis of which it agreed to the principles of amalgamation ( Barnes nd , 1940 ) . |
| 11 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 12 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 13 | It failed for the simple reason that no coherent principles or policies came forward to replace the old ones . |
| 14 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 15 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the Church could not preserve men 's minds from modern heresy ; it failed in the campaign to exclude ‘ dangerous ’ books nor could it prevent the influence of contacts established by Aranda and others with the French intellectuals . |
| 17 | It failed from the start to live up to expectations in terms of sales abroad . |
| 18 | So it applied to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations for some aid . |
| 19 | In this way , it applied to the Bible the ‘ inductive method ’ of scientific study developed in the rise of modern natural science , which similarly aimed to work up from pieces of data to more universal principles or laws . |
| 20 | Parliament would also retain the ultimate right to cancel or vary a part or the whole of Community law as it applied to the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 22 | you know it applied to the British |
| 23 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the eighteenth century Anglican evangelicalism reinforced the attack , but it operated on the poor ; Methodism did that and worked in the hearts and minds of the poor . |
| 25 | It encouraged the incorporation of the peasant community into the wider society , because it operated through the market . |
| 26 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 27 | Lord Justice Neill said an examination of the Royal Charter under which the Jockey Club was set up and of the powers conferred on it suggested that in some aspects of its work it operated in the public domain . |
| 28 | To monitor the course of the project , that is , to study the implementation of the action project design , to find out whether it operated in the way envisaged , using the means planned , and to examine any problems which arose and any unanticipated consequences . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |