Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 2 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 3 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 4 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 5 | And there 's another possibility — that the Indians were actually following the argument between the Jesuits and understanding it a lot better than we thought . |
| 6 | ‘ Now to see if it was a real fire , ’ he said with a grin , opening it a fraction . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 8 | Won t you forgive me for keeping it a secret ? ’ |
| 9 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 10 | In India too people are convinced that the Western nations are seeing test-tube fusion and are keeping it a secret because they have realised that not only does test-tube fusion have great commercial potential , but could revolutionise military strategy . |
| 11 | Ludovico was intent on keeping it a secret , so the ceremony was empty and impersonal . |
| 12 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 13 | I mean flipping talk about keeping it a secret ! |
| 14 | Well I think we 're lucky they must be keeping it a bit longer for interest of something to all out . |
| 15 | and what was your desire in nineteen eighty seven before the Telegraph article , about increasing on spending advertising , keeping it the same or decreasing ? |
| 16 | You can make a ceiling seem much higher by painting it a lighter colour than the walls and keeping the floor a light tone as well . |
| 17 | ‘ I do and I 'm not stopping you working , just delaying it a bit . ’ |
| 18 | She kicked out again , this time cracking it a couple of feet from the juncture with the adjacent wall . |
| 19 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 20 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 21 | There 's all sorts of accidents not only having the computer switched off , you might accidentally mess the file up or erase it or whatever , er , you 've still got the original copy on the disk so if you keep saving it every ten minutes or so , then you always lose more than ten minutes ' work . |
| 22 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |
| 23 | He holds the bat aloft for comfort , so that his eyes remain level and he concentrates feverishly , believing it a greater crime to be out for 30 than for nought . |
| 24 | It was therefore resolved at the 1991 A.G.M. ( after considerable debate ) that the Branch should be formally disestablished , some of the dissenters believing it a politically unfortunate time to take this action . |
| 25 | And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods . |
| 26 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 27 | Sarah Kent 's introduction tries to bring in the fall of Communism , which is probably pushing it a bit . |
| 28 | Do n't you think that the Dixie horn 's pushing it a bit ? ’ |
| 29 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 30 | The second time was pushing it a bit . ’ |