Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A business acquisition can be completed within sixteen weeks , with the Treuhand rationalising it in anticipation of purchase , offering financial advice , cancelling former obligations and providing attractive contractual terms . |
| 2 | The US sample scores lowest for clarity of problem understanding and production involvement in design , probably representing the standing of the production function in the USA in this industry and the communication gap separating it from R&D , another cultural factor . |
| 3 | He did that several times until he had established the depth to reach the lock and bolt and he now knew a single spring-loaded tumbler holding it in place . |
| 4 | And then wherever you 've got rid of conductance think well they have n't given me that , they 've given me resistance , oh I had to write one over resistance turning it into conductance . |
| 5 | I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman has said , because it enables me to explain that proposals for a local income tax relating it to ability to pay have been rejected in Committee and on Report , so we are now in the business of trying to improve this unfair tax which is based on property . |
| 6 | In order to put this over sympathetically to consumers , the Central Authority issued a directive enforcing it on Area Boards : thus underlining the absolute necessity for this increase . |
| 7 | The Government has insisted that apple juice is safe to drink following the scare linking it with cancer . |
| 8 | It also reached out into the social and anthropological fields , and indeed a special journal linking it with linguistics was founded as early as 1859 . |
| 9 | This is a welcome and long overdue development but at the time of writing the detailed regulations bringing it into force have yet to be published . |
| 10 | The purchaser of a completed development , for example a factory , who intends to use the development for his or her own trade purposes or lease it to a person using it for trade purposes may be able to claim capital allowances . |
| 11 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 12 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 13 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 14 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |
| 15 | This is only as good as the screws holding it in place in your front door . |
| 16 | An independent State is presumed to have all the territorial competencies of a sovereign State from the time of its emergence as a State , irrespective of the terms of any treaty bringing it into existence . |
| 17 | v. Cousins an interlocutory injunction was issued to restrain the defendants from preventing oil companies from carrying out their contracts to deliver oil to the plaintiff 's hotel notwithstanding that the contract with the principal supplier of oil contained a clause absolving it from liability if delivery was prevented by circumstances outside its control . |
| 18 | The real problem with assessing popular sentiment over the 1790s is the interplay of contradictory forces shifting it between radicalism and loyalism . |
| 19 | The inductor L2 should not ‘ sing ’ , if it does you may need a fraction more tightness on the studding nuts holding it in place , but do this with extreme care . |
| 20 | It has had Locus Computing Corp dissect NT and do a functional analysis comparing it to desktop Unix on both the client and server levels . |
| 21 | This has transition detectors on its input-output pins enabling it to power down when the supply current drops below 15 micro-amps . |
| 22 | Willie sat on the stool holding it in front of the fire , his long socks trailing across the floor . |
| 23 | Motorola killed its intended predecessor , the 68050 , last year after it decided the development was n't advanced enough to justify the expenditure preparing it for production . |
| 24 | Mallender than struck for a third time when Miandad could not resist one which moved away a little , Stewart gloving it with ease : 64 for 3 . |
| 25 | BSD/386 , which the company may distribute in its current pre-production or beta state , is the centrepiece of the lawsuit Unix System Laboratories has filed against BSDI charging it with copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets ( UX No 396 ) . |