Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ? |
| 2 | The tribe of a successful Warlord will tend to grow in size and power , enabling it to fight other tribes or invade the realms of Men . |
| 3 | Within the union , therefore , Scargill 's call was for solidarity , for those with more readily-guaranteed futures to support other miners ' prospects which were less bright , especially so if the NCB could capitalize on splits and other weaknesses within the NUM , thereby enabling it to isolate vulnerable areas . |
| 4 | BUYING territory rather than seizing it has honourable precedents among nations . |
| 5 | Productivity on the whole range of plant , old and new , may be improved as experience in operating it breeds better methods of organization . |
| 6 | He knows that it is his business to contribute something of his own to this store of experience ; and that he should play his part in moulding it and improving it to meet changing conditions . |
| 7 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
| 8 | But another charity , The Knights of St Columba , has stepped in to put unsold stock to good use by sending it to help needy families in Poland . |
| 9 | The next stage will be to put that ‘ judgemental ability ’ into a computer , teaching it to make intelligent guesses about events on the battlefield . |
| 10 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |
| 11 | When you come to evaluate the software always ensure that you test its capabilities by having it produce real examples of the work that you will be doing . |
| 12 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 13 | HP claims that 7100-based business servers running it provide commercial users with the industry 's fastest uniprocessor server performance on TPS-A benchmarks . |
| 14 | In so doing it multiplies many times over and produces alcohol . |
| 15 | In Shklovsky 's view , Sterne 's Tristram Shandy consists of a series of violations of literary conventions which draw our attention to the forms of fiction ; in so doing it transforms formal questions into content . |
| 16 | We 're not doing it to compensate Social Services |
| 17 | If you are going to have a gravel path , you have the choice of either vibrating sand into the hardcore to form a firm surface for the gravel , or of laying the gravel directly on to the hardcore , and letting it fill any spaces it can get into . |
| 18 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 19 | The 1990 election considerably strengthened the position of the NVP , allowing it to resist secessionist demands from St Maarten . |
| 20 | Instead , the government will retain ‘ golden shares ’ in companies it wants to keep in French hands , allowing it to block hostile bidders or the sale of ‘ strategic ’ assets . |
| 21 | CAHAG claims it will set a precedent for other authorities , allowing it to challenge other authorities which are failing in their duty . |
| 22 | AT&T Co has signed an agreement with the People 's Republic of China allowing it to supply personal telecommunications products with manufacturing partner S Megga International Holdings Ltd 's S Megga Telecommunications Ltd unit : the two have a memorandum of understanding with the China National Posts & Telecommunications Industry Corp to market and distribute AT&T-brand telephones , facsimile machines and other consumer items through hundreds of mainland outlets ; consumer products account for an estimated 20% of a total Chinese telecommunications market of $7,000m a year . |
| 23 | After 1952 and until 1967 this setup gave a forward position which included extra capacitance in the circuitry to give the neck pickup a ‘ bassier ’ sound , allowing it to supply bass-ish lines . |
| 24 | The proposals were reported to have offered the MNR a privileged status , allowing it to start political activities within Mozambique as soon as a ceasefire had been concluded , but requiring it to recognize the Mozambican Constitution . |
| 25 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 26 | Glasgow offers an excellent Higher Education infrastructure and the Agency 's Technology Programme aims to build on this strength by helping it develop stronger links with key high technology companies . |
| 27 | Producing it makes considerable demands on an animal 's bodily resources and although the silk moth , encouraged by man 's selective breeding , extrudes it in large quantities , most insects are rather more sparing in their use of it . |
| 28 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 29 | And burning it sends huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the air , adding to the ‘ Greenhouse Effect ’ that is already influencing world climates with such disastrous results . |