Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since launching it in the late 1980s , Microsoft has sold over 25m copies . |
| 2 | The guard scanned the colour photograph on the pass more carefully , checking it against the listed physical description and the man himself . |
| 3 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 4 | What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions ? |
| 5 | In non-metropolitan England and Wales and in Scotland , housing is allocated to the districts , thus separating it from the personal social services . |
| 6 | Hong Kong has transformed the regions surrounding it in the past five or six years . |
| 7 | Shortly after Haq 's resignation the government announced plans to curb public expenditure by holding it during the current financial year ( ending in June 1990 ) at the 1988-89 level . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Will later courts broaden the scope of the ratio decidendi when they interpret the case , or will they restrict it and narrow it down , confining it to the particular factual situation of the original case ? |
| 10 | ‘ Boyz N The Hood ’ has grossed over $50 million ( and still counting ) at the American box office , putting it on the top ten releases of the summer . |
| 11 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 12 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 13 | ‘ Lewis seems to be making it in the old alternative comedy scene , does n't he ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London . |