Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior expects Delta 's haemoglobin to cost around 50 pence per gram , ten times less than the cost of purifying it from red blood cells , the main existing source . |
| 2 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 3 | They were especially critical of the assumption that one can explain a form of behaviour simply by observing its incidence and correlating it with other variables . |
| 4 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 5 | When path picks up line of iron fence continue to follow this , keeping it on left-hand side , to reach trig point on summit . |
| 6 | Lake Windermere 's ranger 's annual report has accused boat owners of polluting it with raw sewage and spent fuel , leading to noxious smells in warm weather . |
| 7 | Weller is trying to make political idealism glamorous by linking it with being a stylist , and validate being a stylist by aligning it with political ideals . |
| 8 | It is important to take a wider view of social policy development relating it to economic policy . |
| 9 | Since the conventions offer an imperfect guide to the subject at hand , it is necessary to look at some of the other types of sources which are generally recognised as being useful in establishing what the law is , and in relating it to specific situations and technical developments . |
| 10 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 12 | In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition . |
| 13 | showing us that Pip is entering the cold , real world and has left the warmth of Joe 's forge and his chance for contentment , trading it for social status . |
| 14 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 15 | For example , those with characteristically straight hair which has a tendency to greasiness and lankiness would choose the mild Body Building Shampoo to gently purify the hair without stripping it of essential moisture , and the Body Building Conditioner to replenish thirsty hair strands without weighing them down . |
| 16 | Curt Wozniack , Sun 's vice president , engineering said it would take at least three to four years to understand and productise the technology , incorporating it into existing SBus or new hardware products . |
| 17 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 18 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 19 | If bandage-type insulation is used , start at the tank and tie the first wrap , pressing it in close contact with the tank |
| 20 | One relatively straightforward approach to this task consists in trying to refine the theory through use — to discover , by applying it to specific problems , whether it can be consistently employed and what explanations it can yield . |
| 21 | The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases . |
| 22 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 23 | Data General Corp is moving into document imaging and forms management in an effort to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 24 | Data General Corp is going into document imaging/forms management to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 25 | How many have taken the edge off the phrase at the grass roots by applying it to inappropriate circumstances ? |
| 26 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 27 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 28 | Flaubert 's Dictionary offers a course in irony : from entry to entry , you can see him applying it in various thicknesses , like a cross-Channel painter darkening the sky with another wash . |
| 29 | THE cost of dismantling the present system of local government and replacing it with single-tier councils is likely to become a vitally important issue now that the Scottish Office has admitted that its consultants , Touche Ross , appear to have got their sums wrong . |
| 30 | This respondent was also concerned about the failure of social workers to work for rehabilitation , stating , ‘ There are lots of social workers who think it quite appropriate to take a child away from dodgy natural parents and work avidly towards replacing it with adoptive ones . ’ |