Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three , all members of the legislature 's trade and industry committee , were accused of having accepted $60,000 from the Korean Automobiles Manufacturers ' Association in return for helping it to gain the National Assembly 's approval for a package of state aid . |
| 2 | The Jungian concept of synchronicity was much on his mind because he was toying with the idea of using it to underpin the narrative structure of London . |
| 3 | The maxim that life should not be extended at the cost of worsening it has an obvious appeal : it is also a gross over-simplification . |
| 4 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |
| 5 | Doctors who are aware of food intolerance and experienced in diagnosing it have a different statistical outlook . |
| 6 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 7 | The HHA is to undertake a major dredging scheme at the port this year and is eager to co-operate with the NRA by allowing it to use the extracted sand , clay , gravel and rock as a barrier to sea erosion on sites like The Naze . |
| 8 | In this section the facility of the Laplace transformation technique will be demonstrated by applying it to find the transient response in a few illustrative cases . |
| 9 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |