Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adj] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , in a frenzied blur of storm-driven wind , ice-cold rain , glass and splintered wood , Cardiff was suddenly at that door now , tearing it open with one gloved hand while he pushed Jimmy and the girl through into the darkness . |
| 2 | Now let's keep the force the same , say we 've got a Mini engine providing us , just running it steady at three thousand R P M. Pushing out the same amount of force , keep the force the same , this time we put a smaller mass , we 've got a Mini engine and you 've put it on your pushbike . |
| 3 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 4 | The Democratic caucus in the House decided in 1971 that members should be limited to one sub-committee chairmanship thereby making it possible for many more congressmen to hold these coveted posts . |
| 5 | It 's a conventional dome tent with two poles running diagonally across its apex making it square-sided with long funnel-shaped bellends . |
| 6 | The European Commission has recommended that taxes on biodiesel be limited to 10 per cent of the level on fossil fuels , making it competitive in some European countries . |
| 7 | This view involves an updating of what is essentially a Brechtian formulation : self-consciousness in formal terms will induce a socio-political prise de conscience on the part of the audience/readership , making it hostile to repressive ideological discourses . |
| 8 | The crucial factor in the development of bureaucracy in communist states has been the impossibility of democratizing administration , of throwing it open to literate lay people as Lenin wanted . |