Example sentences of "[v-ing] it with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were especially critical of the assumption that one can explain a form of behaviour simply by observing its incidence and correlating it with other variables . |
| 2 | Lake Windermere 's ranger 's annual report has accused boat owners of polluting it with raw sewage and spent fuel , leading to noxious smells in warm weather . |
| 3 | Weller is trying to make political idealism glamorous by linking it with being a stylist , and validate being a stylist by aligning it with political ideals . |
| 4 | Or perchance ending it with that old adage , ‘ Keep up the good work ’ ? |
| 5 | Such passages did little damage , however , compared with those in which again and again he would use these occasions to exalt the status of the King by equating it with that of the kings of Israel . |
| 6 | Despite his desire to secure the dominance of holism by equating it with social scientific explanation , Miller 's argument only sustains a weaker claim ; for his distinction between holism and individualism suggests that there is a place for both types of explanation . |
| 7 | You can build a wardrobe around it , blending it with all your usual clothes . |
| 8 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 9 | THE cost of dismantling the present system of local government and replacing it with single-tier councils is likely to become a vitally important issue now that the Scottish Office has admitted that its consultants , Touche Ross , appear to have got their sums wrong . |
| 10 | It failed to strike me immediately , and I questioned the judges ' decision — replacing it with one of the entries to the three veneers class . |
| 11 | This respondent was also concerned about the failure of social workers to work for rehabilitation , stating , ‘ There are lots of social workers who think it quite appropriate to take a child away from dodgy natural parents and work avidly towards replacing it with adoptive ones . ’ |
| 12 | Re-covering , is the major part of an upholsterers work which means removing all the old covering and replacing it with new , this can be hand stitched or ‘ capped-on ’ according to the style . |
| 13 | It was written by the Local Government Commission , which suggests scrapping the County Council and replacing it with four all powerful Unitary Councils . |
| 14 | The Netherlands , where methyl bromide was heavily used , phased it out completely between 1981-89 , replacing it with safer alternatives , but this has been an isolated example ; world production and sales of methyl bromide increased by 5 per cent in the late 1980s . |
| 15 | That 's very different from say er destroying this book and replacing it with this book . |
| 16 | If it is not feasible to move the fish , then change 50% of the pondwater , once again replacing it with dechlorinated water at the right temperature . |
| 17 | Kosovo was in favour of democratic centralism , Morina said , and against replacing it with multiparty elections , since pluralism would lead to dangerous divisions between nationalities . |
| 18 | The most sophisticated cooks use lemon grass whole or coarsely cut when preparing the stock for a soup or sauce and remove it when the dish is almost complete , replacing it with fine slices to focus and refresh the flavour . |
| 19 | The authorities had no option but to suspend the League , replacing it with three regional leagues in which men could play as amateurs , receiving only a token payment plus expenses , wherever they happened to be stationed . |
| 20 | Some of the top soil is so acidic that no tree can survive and the Government has resorted to digging up the affected soil and replacing it with fresh stocks . |
| 21 | Another approach , which we are testing at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , is to eliminate the wild , dangerous population of anophelines by replacing it with another more tractable variety . |
| 22 | He took the photograph from her , replacing it with another one . |
| 23 | He watched closely as she selected every garment , and at one point he took a dress from her , replacing it with another . |
| 24 | erm Mainly analyzing it with meterological data , you find that after the dry spell , when the rain does finally arrive it 's more acid , and it 's affected in . |
| 25 | He has a great advantage , for seldom need anything be done to alter its physical features : it is merely a question of dressing it with suitable plants . |
| 26 | A freezer will also help you to save money , providing you do not keep filling it with expensive exotic ice creams or whole sides of beef . |
| 27 | Norte weaves her observations into a witty text , filling it with multicultural detail . |
| 28 | When inserting posts or stakes into the ground for use as fence supports , good rigidity can be ensured by inserting the post through the centre of a four-litre plastic ice cream carton , then filling it with concrete mix . |
| 29 | It 's a well-designed demo , which almost leaves the screen empty , filling it with some of the best routines around . |
| 30 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |