Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Both received praise for the presentation , the colour and the crowds but mixed reviews when it came to the standard of play .
32 The Club proved very popular for many years as it appealed to the many actors , artists and musicians who found the atmosphere of Bedford Park most congenial .
33 The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight .
34 The horse blew great jets of steam from its nostrils as it stood on the towpath , patiently waiting for them to board .
35 Between national curriculum levels and general skills and abilities as it sits at the moment ?
36 I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with .
37 One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’
38 While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in CIS than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for IT products .
39 Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up .
40 In a late decision , ARCO , Madrid 's annual contemporary art fair founded in 1982 , is returning to the Crystal Pavilion of the Casa de Campo , the hall where it enjoyed its greatest successes until it relocated to the new Juan Carlos I exhibition park near the airport north of the city a year ago .
41 Apart from the fact that a possible-worlds approach inevitably runs into problems if it insists on the logical completeness of fictional universes , it seems to me that what is a valid issue in logic does not necessarily have to be a valid issue in poetics and narratology .
42 An alternative view is that s.64 is restricted to explosives because it falls within the part of the Act dealing with explosives .
43 We still worked for our own papers but pooled our resources when it came to the human-interest pieces for the Sundays .
44 A Jockey Club inquiry into alternative starting procedures is expected to recommend changes when it reports at the end of the summer .
45 This is particularly significant for Marx since it means that the communal principle does not fully come into conflict with the interests of individual constitutive families as it did in the ancient city , a contradiction which ultimately led to further developments .
46 Despite the availability of consumer magazines like Which ? people are still not always sure of their rights when it comes to the purchase , or indeed the sale , of goods .
47 and my Lord the my Lord you 'll see at the bottom of page sixty nine , this is the latest edition just published this summer my Lord , erm at the bottom of page sixty nine you have an extract from the European community treaty which er defines a directive and you will see my Lord says in terms that it leaves to the national authorities the choice of forms the methods , and then if my Lord could read the passage er under that on page seventy
48 Does not that show that the Government could best serve the CBI by running the economy in such a way that inflation is kept down and does not reach the levels that it reached under the last Labour Government ?
49 You then go an make a cup of tea whilst the computer reads through all the files until it comes to the one you want .
50 Ahead of her the canal turned in a broad left-hand sweep , its line dominated by trees until it disappeared beneath the parapet of a bridge .
51 The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory .
52 Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company .
53 Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand .
54 Having said that , however , most left academics and activists when it comes to the electoral crunch do vote Labour , excusing their commitment by saying that they do so " without illusions " but perhaps signalling by their actions that they do see some kind of meaningful choice at the polls .
55 The Government followed few of these suggestions when it came to the enactment of its Police and Criminal Evidence Act .
56 His ‘ serialism ’ , however , the theory he provided to account for them , failed to convince scientists that it fused with the new physics .
57 The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival .
58 I am delighted to be asked to deliver Lynda 's speech to such a large body of people committed to helping the disadvantaged and to be able to say a few words about how government is meeting the challenges that it faces in the developing world .
59 This is partly because , as indicated earlier , the acquisition of the superego takes place in the modern individual in a different sequence of stages than it did in the culture , and partly because cultural psychological phenomena often present a clearly separated-out picture of their components whereas individual neuroses are often less easy to disentangle .
60 ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd .
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