Example sentences of "and [v-ing] it with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the Eighties terrace tearaways in Britain who showed up for the match in Barbour jackets and deerstalkers , these B- boys were appropriating the ruling class style and parading it with a sardonic grin . |
| 2 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 3 | The Second World War set back Stalin 's hopes of completely rebuilding Moscow and replacing it with a new Soviet city , centrally planned and co-ordinated like the economy . |
| 4 | Should , for any reason , a sheet become damaged in service it is simple to replace a Rockwell sheet by unscrewing the damaged sheet and replacing it with a new one . |
| 5 | Removing a plug of turf with the planter and replacing it with a pot-grown cowslip takes seconds . |
| 6 | Experienced PC users can deal with the Trojan by using software tools to make the new Autoexec.Bat file visible and read/write , before deleting and replacing it with a correct version . |
| 7 | By the way , the ‘ box ’ had a had a hole in it ; disconnecting it from the air intake manifold and replacing it with a blank plug seems to have solved our original problem with no immediately apparent side-effects . |
| 8 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 9 | He said the Tories were destroying the national character of the health service and were intent on breaking it up and replacing it with an American-style system that owed more to accountants than doctors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In view of this high cost , he wondered if Members would consider omitting the residence and replacing it with the Colonial Office . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Showaddywaddy , however , are dismissed as ‘ revisionists , taking the revolutionary music of the workers ’ collectives of Memphis in the 1950s and subverting it with a horrible crepe-sole cabaret act . |
| 14 | The bag is fixed to the frame by simply folding the edge of the bag out over the top of the frame and securing it with a large rubber band . |
| 15 | All the time Frodo and Sam are spinning another , and doing it with the same chronological overlapping . |
| 16 | These difficulties could be overcome by using finely ground copper carbonate rather than metal , and mixing it with an organic glue . |
| 17 | Then rocking the bike off the centrestand , he walked it back out of the space and starting it with a throaty roar , he left her standing there . |
| 18 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 19 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 20 | It follows that if we know the exact pitch of the siren , it is theoretically possible to work out how fast we are moving towards or away from it simply by listening to the apparent pitch and comparing it with the known " true " pitch . |
| 21 | By estimating the expected number of each chromosome and comparing it with the observed number , any significant departures can be recorded . |
| 22 | 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 . |