Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUYING territory rather than seizing it has honourable precedents among nations . |
| 2 | Productivity on the whole range of plant , old and new , may be improved as experience in operating it breeds better methods of organization . |
| 3 | A baby separated from its mother also uses infrasound , and when suckling it emits infrasonic versions of a human baby 's gurgles . |
| 4 | Like everything else in life that is worth having it requires some effort and self discipline . |
| 5 | In so doing it multiplies many times over and produces alcohol . |
| 6 | In so doing it breaches any totality , including History : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is a somewhat more complex task to achieve , since the machine that is docked ( the client ) needs to be fooled into thinking it has more disk drives than it really has , and the desktop machine ( the server ) has to be made to share its resources with the client . |
| 12 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 13 | 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 . |