Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes the small businessman invests his whole life in a company and risks losing it all . |
| 2 | The Commission emphasised in its decision that the selective nature of the price cuts , and the circumstances in which they were made , amounted to ‘ loss leader ’ tactics making it impossible for the much smaller competitor in the market place to stay in business . |
| 3 | Life is hard enough without computers making it harder . |
| 4 | In determining whether goods are of a class to which an advertised trade description relates , s5(3) provides that regard shall be had not only to the form and content of the advertisement but also to the time , place , manner and frequency of its publication and all other matters making it likely or unlikely that a person to whom the goods are supplied would think of the goods belonging to the class in question . |
| 5 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 6 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 7 | We pack and move on , the dogs finding it difficult to move in the fresh snow . |
| 8 | It was also a mistake not to have organised a separate workshop on Islamic fundamentalism and Salman Rushdie 's book , because this ended up dominating discussion in the International workshops making it difficult to discuss other anti-imperialist issues . |
| 9 | The result might have been different if there had been a notice attached to the goods making it clear that these goods had nothing to do with the defendant 's business as a dealer in second-hand goods but had come from his home and that the sale of the goods was to be a private transaction . |
| 10 | The hormone progestogen taken regularly every day at the same time causes changes making it difficult for sperm to enter the womb or for the womb to accept a fertilised egg . |
| 11 | Some prey species such as the oryx ( opposite , top ) , rely on simple , powerful galloping to escape their pursuers , but others , such as the impala ( below ) , employ a more confusing , zigzag escape route , with sudden directional changes making it difficult for the pursuing attacker to strike . |
| 12 | The German government recently drafted regulations making it compulsory for car makers to take back their old cars when they are due to be scrapped . |
| 13 | Sociolinguists may be somewhat surprised to note that Language and Disadvantage remains one of the most popular topics , with almost all courses at all levels giving it special emphasis . |
| 14 | There we would see about 30 pissed-up shaggers giving it some behind the piled-high sun loungers ( no standards ) . |
| 15 | Some 15–40% of patients taking it long term develop an asymptomatic hepatic dysfunction , which is both dose dependent and reversible on stopping treatment . |
| 16 | The opportunity was taken to provide the different subjects with their own suites of rooms making it possible for Departments to stamp their characters on their surroundings . |
| 17 | The design of cylinder head combustion chambers is being further refined with the use of new light metal alloys and ceramics making it possible to overcome the weight disadvantage faced by diesel engines . |
| 18 | The ATNs are bound up with inter-relations to other transitions making it difficult to determine the effect and purpose of any given transition . |
| 19 | Maiden explains sailing terms with little diagrams making it enjoyable for anybody to pick up and read . |
| 20 | Dumbly she shook her head , the threatened tears making it impossible for her to speak . |
| 21 | The UAE , one of the states indicted by Iraq in 1990 , had previously come in for criticism without any members finding it necessary to resort to violence to obtain redress . |
| 22 | There is always a possibility that the quality , mid-market , and tabloid papers will take contrary stances making it necessary to select which readership is more important for the purpose . |
| 23 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 24 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 25 | Armour is beautifully made from a myriad of tiny metal scales making it lightweight and very flexible but stronger than steel . |
| 26 | Anybody trying to bring about a major transformation in a science must direct attention to the facts as he sees them : to a herbalist in the tradition of Culpeper it was an important fact that a particular herb was collected under a waxing or a waning moon ; for one of Liebig 's pupils analysing it this was not a relevant fact at all . |
| 27 | As the Pump Wagon has no horses pulling it any hits must be distributed amongst the crew or machine only , as shown on the chart below . |
| 28 | I go back to thinking that the best way of changing the environment of the colleges would be to try and erm I mean talking again as if it 's boys perpetrating it all the time erm boys will stop doing it if women respond differently . |
| 29 | After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out , it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in . |
| 30 | Perhaps its most unusual feature is the Intelligent Assistant , which allows you to ask the program to carry out certain tasks asking it plain English questions . |