Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’ |
| 2 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 3 | The Tory party is often an amiable shambles , but the Maastricht process is turning it into a neurotic press gang . |
| 4 | There 's one scene of four minutes where every third or fourth sentence is ‘ What about the cases ? ’ , referring to what Rita 's character was going to do with her baggage , and it changes so that each person is saying it with a different meaning . |
| 5 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 6 | Sadly , the only Italian football United will enjoy this season is watching it on the telly . |
| 7 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 8 | The most common method of disposal is in landfill sites , the second most popular method is dumping it in the ocean , and the rest is incinerated , often in ships at sea . |
| 9 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 10 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
| 11 | Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices . |
| 12 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 13 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 14 | Kerrison is doing it on an item of service basis . |
| 15 | The problem is getting it to the surface , and in rural areas the best way is by handpump . |
| 16 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 17 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 18 | ‘ The Dream is trying to stay together , but our input is expanding it at the seams . |
| 19 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |