Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 2 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 3 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 4 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 5 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 6 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 7 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 8 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 9 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 10 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 11 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 12 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 13 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 14 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 15 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 16 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 17 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 18 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 19 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |
| 20 | But now they 're filming it for an appreciative video audience |
| 21 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 22 | if you ask a subordinate to write you a report explain that you are expecting it by a specific date and always with a one page management summary |
| 23 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 24 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 25 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 26 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 27 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 28 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 29 | ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’ |
| 30 | Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’ |