Example sentences of "[v-ing] it with the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although technically the reform had taken effect on Nov. 1 , Yeltsin told the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet that it was simply impossible to proceed with the Shatalin plan without co-ordinating it with the central government . |
| 2 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 3 | In view of this high cost , he wondered if Members would consider omitting the residence and replacing it with the Colonial Office . |
| 4 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 5 | Since cooperation was mutual trading — a genuine alternative to traditional retailing which existed to generate profit — the act of levying a profits tax challenged the integrity and identity of the movement , endowing it with the same status as private trading . |
| 6 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We know that in the eleventh century the Jurassic Way in Oxfordshire was the main road to Northampton , probably joining it with the important town of Gloucester , and throughout the Middle Ages it was a market-road , linking one market town with the next in a long series . |
| 9 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 10 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 12 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 13 | The reader may like to reflect on his/her own planning approach and assess its validity by comparing it with the following checklist of factors which facilitate effective planning . |
| 14 | By estimating the expected number of each chromosome and comparing it with the observed number , any significant departures can be recorded . |
| 15 | As the title implies , it begins with a basic description of action research within the educational context , comparing it with the natural science and historical/sociological research traditions , termed empiricist and interpretive . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Georgina Naylor of the National Heritage Memorial Fund explained that securing the house under the charity was a cheaper solution than placing it with the National Trust and also allowed a greater individuality . |
| 18 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rather , it was the manner and forum — a press conference in Paris — in which de Gaulle had announced his verdict , without formally discussing it with the other Community members . |
| 21 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |