Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their friend and spokesman Mark Lucas said yesterday : ‘ Writing it all down has been both painful and enjoyable for both of them . |
| 2 | Although this has the weight of patristic authority behind it , Hilton very simply outlines the bare essentials of the story and its interpretation giving it particular emphasis to highlight implications peculiarly relevant to the noble lord . |
| 3 | I suppose doing it this way limits the no of participants to how many I can cope with . |
| 4 | Some 15–40% of patients taking it long term develop an asymptomatic hepatic dysfunction , which is both dose dependent and reversible on stopping treatment . |
| 5 | We 're thinking of extending it next year to cover secondary . |
| 6 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 7 | Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine . |