Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A simple microscopic examination of some vaginal discharge , suspended in a salt solution , will give the diagnosis in most cases , and there are also reliable methods of culturing it in the laboratory . |
| 32 | Sec. in his report gave a resume of the year 's business and in particular referred to the proposed museum and the difficulties of establishing it with the very limited resources at the Society 's disposal . |
| 33 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 34 | There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland . |
| 35 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 36 | What are the prospects of obtaining a quantum theory of gravity and of unifying it with the other three categories of interactions ? |
| 37 | Cutting the glass is simply a matter of scoring it to the required size with a glass cutter . |
| 38 | If the chest is forced open , the same trap will be triggered , save that there 's no chance of defusing it with the extra lock-turn . |
| 39 | To find the benefits of religion , we have to find some way of separating it from the institutions which claim to represent it . |
| 40 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 41 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 42 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ And , believe me , I shall make a point of reporting it to the hotel manager without delay . ’ |
| 44 | Once information is judged material , we weigh its relevance against the constraints , and balance the costs of reporting it against the benefits . |
| 45 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 46 | instead of sending it through the post at Christmas I thought I 'd bring it . |
| 47 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 48 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 49 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 50 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 51 | But gradually the idea of performing it in the garden , and the setting of the last act of Figaro , which all takes place in the garden , started to suggest an alternative scenario for moments from the opera . |
| 52 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 53 | The gerbil does need to be examined properly and there are ways and means of doing it with the minimum amount of stress . |
| 54 | ‘ There must be a way of doing it without the costs of a full listing . |
| 55 | But , as one ex-councillor puts it , ‘ If he ca n't manage to present the Labour Party in new colours in his own constituency , what hope has he of doing it in the country ? ’ |
| 56 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 57 | The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground . |
| 58 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |
| 59 | I think the fare in later years was half a crown return , and he would park up near the Post Office , so that people could come and leave their shopping with him instead of humping it about the streets . |
| 60 | ‘ We 're thinking of taking it to the European Court of Human Rights ’ , she says . |