Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even stilled , the great pistons were ample evidence of the power it could unleash , driving it like the mighty wheels of a train . |
| 5 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 6 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 7 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |
| 8 | ‘ Stupid , crazy female , ’ was all he said as he set about bandaging it with the meagre contents of the first-aid box . |
| 9 | At this point , the trustees decided that the future of the church would be best secured by vesting it in the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well it 's it 's like you trying to say you 're gon na boil a pan of potatoes and you 've got ta keep turning it off every two minutes , cos it 'll be getting too hot ! |
| 12 | Once a grand place in its own grounds , suburban London had crept up and round it , trapping it among the terraced streets . |
| 13 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 14 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The tune can , of course , always bear strengthening , and this can be done either by giving it to the two trumpets in unison , and the alto and tenor parts to the tenor trombones , or by giving the alto and tenor parts to the 2nd trumpet and 1st trombone respectively and doubling the tune in the lower octave on the 2nd trombone . |
| 17 | It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
| 19 | Froggy was staying with me as usual , making a few bob at caddying on the nearby courses and spending it in the local pubs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I mean I 've had Fife College on the phone as well saying you know why ca n't we do it and Alec we 're really now we can do no more until Napier come up if for some reason Napier fell down on the job then I think I 've got enough knowledge about what we 're doing now but I would start running it round the other colleges including Telford who are doing a distance learning course |
| 22 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 23 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 24 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 25 | Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides . |
| 26 | I 'm doing it through the four years of the course . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 29 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 30 | So , although this perspective still has much to teach us , we shall subsequently be combining it with the broader explanations offered by later urban social theorists . |