Example sentences of "[prep] it [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd come out of it looking sharper than a Connecticut Yankee at a 2 Live Crew concert . |
| 2 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 3 | Lionfish have venom glands at the base of the dorsal fine spines and the sting can prove very serious and excruciatingly painful although there is no record of it causing any human fatalities |
| 4 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 5 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 6 | Miranda is lying on her tummy for she has the bath to herself , and she 's pretending she 's swimming , thinking of it getting dark and Manjiku rising , rising from the deep , tracking her . |
| 7 | Since the perestroika process began , the Soviet economy has followed a steady course downwards , and there seems no prospect at the moment of it reversing that process . |
| 8 | For , if people and Parliament come to think that the judicial power is to be confined by nothing other than the judge 's sense of what is right ( or , as Selden put it , by the length of the Chancellor 's foot ) , confidence in the judicial system will be replaced by fear of it becoming uncertain and arbitrary in its application . |
| 9 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 10 | Though the vessel does not have an engine or a conventional rudder , it has been equipped with a thruster unit to give some manoeuvrability in the rare event of it going adrift from its location about two miles from the Alba platform . |
| 11 | I 'd always understood that land should only go into the greenbelt if it was necessary to be kept permanently open , by reason of it performing one of the five purposes . |
| 12 | This has to be the most awesome wall around , so get down there and get cranking — be warned though , within four hours of it opening four people had damaged their tendons : remember always to warm up first ! |
| 13 | And not a technical matter but a policy matter , I think that the probabilities of it doing that could be er increased by traffic calming measures on the A sixty one to make it take longer to go through Harrogate that way . |
| 14 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 15 | A rainforest receives at least 4,000mm of rain every year , 200mm of it falling each month for ten months . |
| 16 | There was a field just behind it containing red and white poles and some painted oil drums . |
| 17 | Creggan came out of his concrete shelter into his cage , the branch thrust right over it and on to the path in front , and smaller branches from it filling half his cage with confusion . |
| 18 | ‘ No ! ’ she squeaked , thinking that , far from it taking all his charm , her willingness could be achieved with only a minimum of persuasion . |
| 19 | The board considered that although the investigation ordered by the Chief Executive on 18 October 1990 is not yet complete the imposition of the restrictions referred to above is necessary in the interests of investors given the evidence before it highlighting serious deficiencies in Norwich Union 's internal systems for monitoring the performance of the Winchester Group and in particular ensuring that the Winchester Group complied with the Code of Conduct . |
| 20 | Because he had he used to have a big open fire there and all the kids would be sitting round it keeping warm while he was mending the shoes . |
| 21 | And also , as a children 's programme , I was intent upon it containing basic factual information that could be described as educational- — or , at least , mind-opening for them . |
| 22 | % ( hatching ) : connects string of specified x , y coordinates defining the outline of a polygon and hatches inside it using specified line spacing and angle . |
| 23 | A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time . |
| 24 | However , do remember that if suppleness exercise is done without it inducing heavier breathing and an increased heart-rate ( for example , yoga ) this will do very little for increasing your stamina . |
| 25 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |
| 26 | You can leave that stuff on practically forever without it doing any harm . ’ |
| 27 | On the weight shift types it is difficult to give the student experience at low ‘ g ’ manoeuvres and the pilots may be badly affected without it becoming obvious . |
| 28 | FROM THE cocktail-lounge keyboard riff in ‘ Louder Than A Bomb ’ , to the no-nonsense , horn-riffed hip-hop of ‘ Radio Consultant ’ , ‘ Greatest Misses ’ is a fine compilation album , so do n't come to it expecting another ‘ Black Planet ’ . |
| 29 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 30 | The Council had resolved to prepare a plan prior to it becoming mandatory . |