Example sentences of "[v-ing] it in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 2 | But did she really use a potty at night , keeping it in a cupboard by her bed ? |
| 3 | SHOCKED Colin Creasey saved a kitchen fitter 's severed thumb by keeping it in a pack of frozen peas . |
| 4 | However , it is an emotion that leads many of us to play games — either by denying we feel angry , or by squashing it in an effort to be seen as reasonable , easygoing and likeable , or from fear of being rejected . |
| 5 | In his view , therefore , the ‘ crisis ’ facing capitalism is the result of an independent technology driving it in a direction which runs counter to the declared ideology of the technostructure who control it . |
| 6 | 2 The Publisher shall be responsible for placing copies of the Program with Beta Testing assessors , for collecting feedback from these assessors and assembling it in a form which shall be interpretable as a specification to be met by the Programmer in preparing the final version of the Program . |
| 7 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 8 | These fall back to earth as soft , squishy pancakes which pile up closely round the vent , soon enclosing it in a kind of chimney or hornito . |
| 9 | One tactic is simply to shield the device , by enclosing it in a metal or plastic box of low impedance . |
| 10 | Not only do you have to fold it with fastidious care to avoid pinching and clouding the plastic rear window , but fitting it in a hurry is simply impossible . |
| 11 | Nevertheless to consider the National Curriculum as a list of subjects runs the danger of expressing it in a way which over-emphasises information and a narrow range of skills at the expense of the development of a full range of socially useful skills , attitudes and ideas , which is usually the concern of interested parents and can even be seen in a child 's view of the purpose of education . |
| 12 | This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee . |
| 13 | From the initial idea Watt developed an engine with a cylinder kept hot by surrounding it with a jacket of steam and a condenser kept cool by immersing it in a water bath . |
| 14 | A useful guide as to its readiness is to place a shovel into the mixture , withdrawing it in a series of jerks so that the ridges that are formed retain their character . |
| 15 | Vehicle is proved by describing it in a witness 's statement . |
| 16 | ‘ a vehicle namely a … ’ 'Vehicle' is proved by describing it in a prosecution witness 's statement . |
| 17 | ‘ of a certain vehicle , namely a … ’ 'Vehicle' is proved by describing it in a prosecution witness 's statement . |
| 18 | ‘ of a vehicle , namely a … ’ 'Vehicle' is proved by describing it in a prosecution witness statement . |
| 19 | Such progress exemplifies the way in which a physical geographer can contribute by deriving a world pattern that depends upon the most recently reviewed methods for assessing sediment yield and presenting it in a form that is pertinent to applications in a wide range of disciplines . |
| 20 | ‘ I really prefer the idea of an older man or even a bedridden man — even a person totally incapacitated — because at least when you bought him a watch you 'd know you 'd be wearing it in a week or two yourself . |
| 21 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
| 22 | I had purposely left it unwashed , stuffing it in a suitcase because I might need to spread it out on my bridegroom 's bed in the dark of night . |
| 23 | The French learned that lesson in Paris where footing it in a queue suffering at least a little bit for art is required before access to the Winged Victory of Samothrace or ‘ The artist 's studio ’ by Gustave Courbet . |
| 24 | You having it in a plait ? |
| 25 | Dowsing and other devices , including the various ‘ ley detectors ’ invented by Jimmy Goddard , appear to be a way of bringing this general psychic awareness into focus , demonstrating it in a form which our conscious mind can handle . |
| 26 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 27 | Finally , here are two other methods of giving and not giving the reader a clue , besides burying it in a list of casual items , separating it into two with a wide gap between the parts of appearing , in putting it in , to be doing something else . |
| 28 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 29 | It 's best run full screen , as well , since running it in a window seems only to give you a partial view of the full-screen image , and no scroll bars appear to allow you to see what 's happening in the bits that are n't shown . |
| 30 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |