Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he feel that he might try to persuade Mr. Collins at their next meeting to devote a little more time to the containment of that particular problem rather than wasting it on demands that a policeman accompany every Army patrol in Northern Ireland , presumably to ensure that the Special Air Services remember to say ’ please ’ and ’ thank you ’ to any civilian they may encounter ? |
| 2 | Similarly , in an effort to reach an accommodation with women trade unionists , the NUSEC rejected the traditional nineteenth-century feminist opposition to protective legislation , pledging to work for the extension of such legislation to men rather than opposing it for women . |
| 3 | Ribbing in the stitches on either side of the cable draws the work in more than allowing it to ladder down , which makes working a sample piece very important . |
| 4 | Other than using it for business purposes , there are no restrictions — except , of course , that you must not overstep your borrowing limit . |
| 5 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 6 | So , rather than holding it in front of you as in the carve gybe , you deliberately lose the power from the rig by oversheeting ad leaning it towards the wave . |
| 7 | That the girls might be unaware of the camera rather than seducing it to death . |
| 8 | Adorno seems to offer such a ‘ sticking point ’ , and for that reason it seems worth confronting his critique rather than burying it as myth . |
| 9 | This is easier than doing it with numbers , any day . |
| 10 | The demand for money refers to the desire to hold money : to keep your wealth in the form of money , rather than spending it on goods and services or saving it by purchasing financial assets such as bonds or shares . |
| 11 | It was not ideal , it was not what he had anticipated , far from it , but it was better than abandoning it to Adam . |
| 12 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 13 | Trim excess fat from meat before cooking ; grill , poach and steam food rather than frying it in fat . |
| 14 | She runs her finger slowly along his chin , as if inspecting it for dust . |
| 15 | Acer is also downsizing its Hsindsheu plant and is reportedly considering relocating it to China . |
| 16 | I 'll have to watch out with Robert and that lot because telling it to Mr , he 's worried , is it a story and all that lot . |
| 17 | These hardliners argue that a clear-cut action of that kind would be easier to understand , and ultimately more popular , than the Likud 's present policy of supporting Palestinian autonomy in principle while opposing it in practice . |
| 18 | Most of the rest would help pay for disposing of the plutonium by generating electricity from it while turning it into waste . |
| 19 | In the UK , in recent years the funding of government spending by increasing the money supply has been seen as detrimental , while funding it by borrowing has also been seen as objectionable because of the choking off of private investment . |
| 20 | This is a technique developed by Lotus for making these modular features available while at the same time allowing you to see the document page — so you can edit a drawing while viewing it in context . |
| 21 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 22 | We are looking for people who can accept that the past has passed and , whilst remembering it with fondness , can also look to the future and view what it might bring with a degree of optimism and hope . |
| 23 | In 1946 , Trinidad and Tobago held their first elections under universal suffrage and , for these politically and culturally fragmented islands , the ensuing decade would be of the utmost importance , for it would see the emergence of a political leader who , through the Peoples Nationalist Movement , would revolutionise the political life of the colony whilst propelling it toward independence . |
| 24 | The Super Dustbuster 's features include a lock-on button and loop handle , which make it comfortable to hold and easy to use , and because it is so light , it does not present problems when using it above head height . |
| 25 | It goes without saying that stating the problem is not the same thing as solving it in practice ! |
| 26 | And does the board add value by enhancing the wisdom of management as well as holding it to account ? |
| 27 | They had already taken the play to Lancaster as well as performing it in Durham , and now had the assembly of the pageant down to a fine art , taking about two hours to mount the superstructure . |
| 28 | A common failing of doubtless well-meaning staff is to wildly underestimate the age of an animal when offering it for adoption . |
| 29 | In fact , there is general agreement that the country 's leading corporations were increasing overseas employment in other industrial countries ( Chapter 2 , 25–6 ) at the same time as reducing it in Britain . |