Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 2 | An agent residing on each client provides the machine with operating operating parameters delivered to it from the application residing on an administrator 's host system . |
| 3 | The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system . |
| 4 | Convocation has a role defined in the Charter : it may ‘ discuss and pronounce an opinion on any matters whatsoever relating to the University including any matters referred to it by the Court or the Council ’ . |
| 5 | Furthermore , sometimes the government expressly delegates public administrative functions to non-governmental bodies : for example , under the Financial Services Act 1986 the Securities and Investments Board exercises a wide range of regulatory functions delegated to it by the Secretary of State ; the Board of Deputies of British Jews plays an important role in policing certain Sunday Trading laws ; the Wood Green Animal Shelter in North London runs the government 's computerized register of fighting dogs ; and the Rowntree Trust ( a private charitable organization ) administers the Family Fund ( a public fund to assist families of severely handicapped children ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 7 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 8 | If they desired that the should stay and that the crown should retain the powers given to it by the constitution he should be informed . |
| 9 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 10 | The SIB has wide powers granted to it by the Secretary of State under the FSA , and has a broad authority in enforcing the Act ( and can override the decisions of the SROs ) . |
| 11 | As is well known , the word jade was an outcome of the medical qualities attributed to it by the Aztecs . |
| 12 | in the exercise of the intervention powers delegated to it by the Secretary of State ( as to which see section 97 of the Act ) . |
| 13 | Sir Anthony concludes : ‘ A regulatory agency — which is what the Department were , at the time , in relation to the protection of investors — ought , to my mind , by definition adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach as regards material coming into its possession concerning an undertaking about which suspicions have been aroused , and also as regards representations made to it on the part of the undertaking in question . |
| 14 | The question which lies at the heart of the appeal is whether money exacted as taxes from a citizen by the revenue ultra vires is recoverable by the citizen as of right ; if so , Woolwich will be entitled to interest on the sums repaid to it by the revenue , running from the dates when those sums were paid to the revenue by Woolwich . |
| 15 | I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ ! |
| 16 | A field which wishes to attempt to ensure that some offers are made in combination with one or more other fields sees to it at the beginning of the cycle that ‘ reserved offers ’ are set aside . |
| 17 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 18 | Here , there 's no salaries attached to it at the moment . |
| 19 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 20 | It was planned as a pilgrimage church with a large crypt for the relics and with stairways leading to it from the aisles . |
| 21 | In addition , Aslib 's quarterly publication Index to Theses now provides abstracts of all theses notified to it by the universities . |
| 22 | First , while parliament has to vote the annual Estimates , the party system in the House of Commons is such that it is virtually unknown for Parliament to amend the Estimates put to it by the government . |
| 23 | All he knew was that ‘ in the end , this court quashed the subpoenas based upon ex parte in camera briefings given to it by the government ’ . |