Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | The UN Security Council on Aug. 15 unanimously adopted Resolution 707 condemning Iraq for its failure to disclose full details of its weapons programme and ordering it to provide complete access to UN inspection teams [ see pp. 38307-08 ; 38360-61 ] , including accepting their right to conduct aerial inspections anywhere in the country . |
| 6 | While confident of the benefit of mefenamic acid , the authors advise more evaluation of its risks before recommending it to prevent pre-term labour . |
| 7 | If you are feeling adventurous and you have a lot of children coming , you can make a second wall with pieces of chocolate surrounding it representing Humpty Dumpty having fallen off the wall . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The next stage will be to put that ‘ judgemental ability ’ into a computer , teaching it to make intelligent guesses about events on the battlefield . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | We have been running it to get democratic power to serve the people of this country , ’ said Kinnock , provoking the most spontaneous and emotional standing ovation seen in three weeks . |
| 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 | Planting it outside the backdoor was a sure way of keeping witches out of the house , and it was thought never to be struck by lightning ; cutting it brought bad luck , and traditionally it was the wood the Cross of Calvary . |
| 18 | Tory Darlington councillor Peter Jones hit out at the show after hearing it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic , and a simulated sex act . |
| 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 | The musical term " leitmotiv " is not inappropriate for the way in which Dickens repeats an idiom or expression , under various modifications and transformations , through episodes of a novel , allowing it to accumulate thematic significance as it goes , an illustration on a small scale of his use of dynamic variation in style . |
| 22 | CAHAG claims it will set a precedent for other authorities , allowing it to challenge other authorities which are failing in their duty . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Answer guide : Managers would be using it to plan future activity levels , order stocks , employ labour etc. whereas bankers are more interested in an overview of where the business is likely to go and perhaps also as a monitoring tool , although it is doubtful that such a level of sophistication is applied to the majority of enterprises . |
| 27 | She suggests suspending a hanging basket from the ceiling and using it to store spare soap , toothpaste , talcum powder and toilet rolls . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 30 | he attempted to stride Persia as a Bismarck , changing its face , uniting it and freeing it form foreign domination . |