Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
| 2 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 3 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 4 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 5 | Lift the stencil carefully , and rinse and dry it before moving it to the next position . |
| 6 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 7 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 8 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 9 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 10 | This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area . |