Example sentences of "[prep] it [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 2 | The report contains comments from policymakers in borrowing countries , much of it criticizing Bank officials for ignoring local input while implementing policies decided at Bank headquarters . |
| 3 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
| 4 | She thirsted for it , imagining the cool wind of it cascading life into her lungs . |
| 5 | The result was to show that the chance of advertising bans or very rigid controls affecting prevalence was about 95% , and the chance of it affecting consumption was about 90% . |
| 6 | In 1898 the Great Western Railway conveyed 5,978 tons of broccoli from Cornwall , much of it going north via Didcot , Birmingham , and Crewe . |
| 7 | However , of much more concern to Blythen Jenkins , head of corporate affairs with the IoD , is the tendency ‘ in all legislation where the liability of the company is involved , such as environmental or consumer protection , to have a little paragraph in it saying liability shall be assumed by the directors and officers of the company ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ When we gave planning permission to the new Chelsea development we attached a condition to it preventing ground-sharing . |
| 9 | Ceauşescu was right : a few years later , the US Congress made freeing trade with the Soviet Union dependent on it permitting emigration , particularly of Soviet Jews . |
| 10 | If you are thinking about it talking person to person remember the guy on the building site remember the woman who 's pregnant and trying to sell insurance and getting him to he should have been securing his family welfare and so on . |
| 11 | Every evening after school and at weekends she 's hard at it doing research . |