Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protein interacts with only one of the DNA strands and based on the fact that the complementary strand competes for binding it would appear to have little affinity for the double stranded form of the oligonucleotide . |
| 2 | After saying it would produce a £200 facsimile-transmission unit designed to bring electronic mail to the person in the street , the PTT has finally acknowledged that the project is a non-starter . |
| 3 | After freezing it will widen the cracks further and may rust steel reinforcements . |
| 4 | Here we shall look at the principles by which various methods of measuring velocity work ; the reader interested in the arrangements of a full working system and the procedures for operating it should follow up the references . |
| 5 | Letting the child play with food for a while without the expectation of eating it will reduce the tension around meal-times . |
| 6 | On the conscious level , sexuality was to me only one of the responsibilities of adulthood : as far the sexual act itself was concerned , I simply did n't want to know , as a child who is exposed to sexual information at an age when she/he feels incapable of absorbing it will not want to know . |
| 7 | In addition , at the time of writing it would appear that two other major projects are to be implemented . |
| 8 | The future of a novel in the process of composition is always vague , provisional , unpredictable — if it were not so , the labour of writing it would be too tedious to bear . |
| 9 | well you think that ca n't be right , because , can you work out what this bearing 's going to be , and instead of measuring it could we have calculated it ? |
| 10 | 3.11 When there is some particular feature in a case which aggravates the degree of suffering it need not arise from the plaintiff 's concern about himself . |
| 11 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |
| 12 | For , according to Moore , to say that an action would be right is to say that the total results of doing it would be at least as good as would be those of doing any alternative . |
| 13 | Perhaps the best way of doing it would be to give th erm them an N C O |
| 14 | But the benefits of creating it will be long-lasting … |
| 15 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 16 | Had either realized her knack of manipulating it might have been a different story , but Sarah never allowed her determination to show . |
| 17 | In using a cognitive approach to the task of interpreting it may be possible to find a base for comparing the language systems . |
| 18 | This will be much harder to achieve if you start with the leash held vertically because the act of lowering it will be distracting for the dog . |
| 19 | when one makes an utterance , the manner of making it may be casual , anxious , amused or annoyed . |
| 20 | Once you are in the habit of reviewing it can be done , alone or with others who participated in the experience , in about five minutes fiat . |
| 21 | Unless the hypothetical killer had been careless enough to leave part of Dora 's golf-club visible , her chances of finding it must be virtually nil . |
| 22 | Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker . |
| 23 | But the means of fulfilling it will be very different . ’ |
| 24 | For teachers and children who have not had much experience of collaborative methods of working it would offer the opportunity to explore , as a starting point , the potential of individual activities for generating worthwhile collaboration . |
| 25 | With a slight change of wording it could also serve the same purpose for an individual , but its use as part of staff appraisal is not considered here . |
| 26 | One is how far advanced the Labour Party 's thinking was on the nature of planning it might undertake if it took power at the end of the second world war . |
| 27 | The consequences of indulging it might not be at all to your liking . |
| 28 | Software piracy is wrong , but more flexible policies for selling it would help combat the crime . |
| 29 | Erm it , again if you 'd only do things like jogging it will build up , if you 've got the right conditions , your heart y y your heart and lung ability , but in order to have this stamina that we 're talking about you 've got to have power . |
| 30 | She 'd have to give this … person … something or it would spoil Sam 's holiday — which was like saying it would spoil his entire year . |