Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable .
2 Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " .
3 North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders .
4 The voice could then be raised until the instrument responded to it above the level of the background noise .
5 But so long as the tribunal decides the question assigned to it by the law , its relative opinion will bind , subject to appeal .
6 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 .
7 It was held that the applicants lacked a sufficient interest in the matter because the Revenue had acted within the discretion permitted to it in the day-to-day administration of the tax system .
8 TEC provisionally accepted the role allocated to it by the DES , but its acceptance was drowned in complaints from a number of quarters .
9 The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result .
10 NOT LEAST among the fascinations of the recent Headingley Test was the differing coverage accorded to it by the four main daily newspapers .
11 Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled .
12 In such sectors of economy the use of the community languages and the status given to it on the shop floor is very significant .
13 14.2 No Party shall sub-contract any part of the work under the Project assigned to it without the prior written approval of all Parties .
14 For his part , Bush said that the participation of the Soviet Union in the IMF and the World Bank on the basis of the special status granted to it at the G-7 meeting was " the most important thing that the Soviet Union could do right now " .
15 On its commencement every proceeding is identified by a title , made up of the name of the court in which it is brought , the names of the parties and any Act ( other than the 1984 Act ) relied on to give the court jurisdiction , and by a distinguishing number allotted to it by the court office , written ( in an action ) as " Case No " or ( in a matter ) as " No of Matter " .
16 Among other initiatives taken at the summit was a decision by Saudi Arabia to forgive the debt owed to it by the poorest Islamic countries and to contribute US$10,000,000 to ease the ICO 's budget deficit of US$49,000,000 .
17 He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman .
18 Such coasts are often fronted by large shingle beaches , derived from the destruction of the cliffs , and the erosion of the cliff depends to a large extent on the protection afforded to it by the beach .
19 In one set of studies stimulus A was the onset of a light and the target response acquired to it in the intermediate phase of training was a conditioned eye-blink reinforced by an air-puff unconditioned stimulus .
20 Under the treaty , the USSR would be a " sovereign federative state formed as a result of voluntary unification of republics , and exercising the degree of political power given to it by the parties to the treaty " .
21 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 .
22 Furthermore , although the first poll-tax was sufficiently successful as a fiscal measure for it to be repeated in 1379 and 1381 , the hostility shown to it in the Great Revolt of the latter year led to its abandonment as a form of taxation ; not until the sixteenth century do further governmental records become available which can be employed to estimate the size of the national population with even a modicum of confidence .
23 Kylie gets to it in the Point
24 My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time .
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