Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | As far as the Science Museum is concerned it 's a question of helping it with the whole game of raising finance and all the other things they have to do . |
2 | From a technical point of view the superiority of nephrite over the stones plentifully available for everyday tools would hardly justify the increased cost of ensuring adequate supplies or the enormously greater cost of shaping it to the correct form . |
3 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
4 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
5 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
6 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
7 | What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions ? |
8 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
9 | If the chest is forced open , the same trap will be triggered , save that there 's no chance of defusing it with the extra lock-turn . |
10 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
11 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
12 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
13 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
14 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |
15 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
16 | As for the Communist Party , the Executive repeated its belief in the complete inadvisability of associating it with the Labour Party in the public eye . |
17 | ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London . |
18 | This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want . |
19 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
20 | The instructor smiled as he went to each man in turn and pulled out two full arm lengths of cord from their parachutes before attaching it to the static line . |
21 | This is a simple , but amusing , sequence with a stick-man player flicking the ball up , chesting it down , etc , before shooting/heading it towards the unseen net — a ‘ goal ’ or ‘ saved ’ caption then appears . |
22 | Although the case for commitment accounting improving budgetary control is a good one , there is a real problem involved in adopting it in the financial accounts . |
23 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
24 | We weakened the signal in several ways , one of which was by damaging the cells of the polarizing region with high doses of X-rays before grafting it to the anterior margin . |
25 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
26 | For example , if there are a total of twelve children , twelve divided by four equals three so have twelve sweets on the cake around the edges and cut the cake into quarters , each with three on , before cutting it into the individual pieces . |
27 | The islands had always been a smugglers ' paradise , and had proved a perfect place to stockpile cocaine before running it across the narrow Straits of Florida to the waiting American markets . |
28 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
29 | I prod it with a fork and brown it on the fire before introducing it to the thick slice of toast . |
30 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |