Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise . |
| 2 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 3 | It has seized and deformed it , in each region twisting it into a latent value-system which , put into an abstract , depersonalized form , has in one place produced the French revolutionary ideal , in another Anglo-Saxon liberalism , elsewhere communism , Muslim fundamentalism , social democracy , Buddhist socialism , and many other secondary forms . |
| 4 | She drove the corkscrew in , twisting it like a knife in an enemy , stretching her shoulders back and pulling , with no result . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 7 | Shortly after the appearance of the SL , Thorn EMI Lighting introduced the 2D by launching it with a range of fittings designed by Conran Associates . |
| 8 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 9 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 10 | We have developed a procedure for quantifying a specific mRNA purifying it with a selected biotinylated oligonucleotide ( sbODN ) and measuring its absorbance by free solution Capillary Electrophoresis ( CE ) . |
| 11 | Realizing this , Franco stepped up his arguments in favour of a slow campaign , justifying it as a political necessity . |
| 12 | The movement , which covers Darlington , Richmondshire , Northallerton , Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , has acquired Harewood House in Darlington and intends opening it as a day hospice . |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp says it plans to lead a campaign against growing software piracy in Japan 's personal computer industry , opening it with a letter to 50 hardware manufacturers and 290 software vendors in Japan alerting them to the problem — the Japanese are generally law-abiding , but Microsoft suspects many are unaware they are doing anything wrong copying software . |
| 14 | Bosnia-Hercegovina and Slovenia attended as " guests " ; the status of Yugoslavia 's membership was highly controversial , with the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY — the new federal entity formed by Serbia and Montenegro ) representing it as a full member . |
| 15 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 16 | The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket . |
| 17 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 18 | On Friday , though , Alesi had been the top man as he claimed the overnight pole , but he lost any chance of keeping it with a wall-bashing incident , which came as no surprise to anyone who had watched his outrageously extrovert efforts . |
| 19 | We 're keeping it as a monument to its origins during the war |
| 20 | Three options for Bart 's — keeping it as a smaller specialist hospital ; closing Smithfield site with services moved ; or combined management with the Royal London and London Chest Hospitals . |
| 21 | I can understand like you picking one up to get rid of it if you 're not scared of it , but playing with one , keeping it as a pet ! |
| 22 | In 1868 and 1879 the two ‘ Torrens Acts ’ made the owner of a house responsible for keeping it in a habitable condition , and gave powers of compulsion to the local authority . |
| 23 | SHOCKED Colin Creasey saved a kitchen fitter 's severed thumb by keeping it in a pack of frozen peas . |
| 24 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 25 | But did she really use a potty at night , keeping it in a cupboard by her bed ? |
| 26 | Then jagged peaks came out of cloud-filled valleys to steal all colouring from the sky and day flooded the glacier ahead , painting it with a palette of new-formed pastel shades . |
| 27 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 28 | Articles written by the gallery 's curatorial , scientific and conservation staff in the latest volume ( number 14 ) include an analysis of the underdrawing found in Raphael 's ‘ Garvagh Madonna ’ during a study by infra-red reflectography , prompted by the examination of the recently identified ‘ Madonna dei Garofani ’ by Raphael ; an account of the history , conservation and painting technique of two of Canaletto 's Venetian scenes in the Gallery 's Collection , ‘ The stonemason 's yard ’ and ‘ The upper reaches of the Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo ’ ; the results of the investigation and treatment of Laurent de la Hyre 's ‘ Allegorical Figure of Grammar ’ , relating it to a second version in the Walters Art Gallery , Baltimore ; and a discussion of the technique and perspective scheme in Bramantino 's recently restored ‘ Adoration of the Magi ’ . |
| 29 | People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Papandreou paid lip service to the clean-up while condemning it as a political plot to end his career and destroy his party . |