Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together .
2 This is seen as a shade different from the enforcement of a sentence as such ; and there can be a practical difference where , as is often the case , the enforcing State keeps the confiscated property rather than than transmitting it to the State in which the order was made .
3 There is no better way of practising the language one is learning than using it outside the classroom .
4 They take the intensity of soul and clench it into a fist rather than using it as a form of release .
5 What you are aiming at is a steady indication on the localiser needle , rather than returning it to the centre .
6 But there will be cost involved , I think about eighteen thousand , over the course of that year , in sustaining that contract rather than replacing it with a new tender .
7 and it 's cheaper than ordering it off the catalogue .
8 Because making the material itself is a lot harder than turning it into a rudimentary bomb , it is the tight control of plutonium and uranium that has until now restricted the spread of nuclear weapons .
9 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 .
10 I like it when you 've got the FX actually going through the amplifier , rather than adding it at the desk , because there 's a certain quality and tonality when everything 's going through that guitar speaker .
11 Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read .
12 For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets .
13 I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business .
14 pull it up , well they might leave it and just co disconnect it but they they 'd have to bring it in , I do n't it 'd be better I think if we had ours in the back because the , the telephone thing comes in from the back be better than having it in the , in the passage really .
15 But I , but I think you know the , the , the thing that I found erm most difficult as you say was , was actually completing the C C Q and I think part of it and asking the question but it is , certainly it would be easier to do it using that on your knee rather than doing it at the table because I was aware that I was turning away
16 But for him to go self-employed will cost him more money than doing it on the bl black market .
17 There is nothing to be gained by translating dollars into pounds in this story any more than doing it in a bank , so the money is untouched .
18 In each case the intention will be to emphasize the artefact 's constitutive character , rather than treating it as a mere reflection of social relations , that is a ‘ human mirror ’ .
19 One solution to this problem would be to assign a length to a probe , rather than treating it as a point , so that short probes could be contained within longer ones .
20 Analysts , however , have taken the concept of ‘ literal meaning ’ as a ‘ neutral ’ and ‘ universal ’ tool of study rather than treating it as an object of study in itself , as a part of the ‘ social construction of reality ’ which they are trying to describe and to explain .
21 In this respect , the organiser continues to integrate the experience into schools and local authority plans , rather than perceiving it as an additional bolt-on training opportunity .
22 Well no cos it 's better receiving Valentines card rather than hearing it over the phone really why they gave them out
23 Georgina Naylor of the National Heritage Memorial Fund explained that securing the house under the charity was a cheaper solution than placing it with the National Trust and also allowed a greater individuality .
24 Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television .
25 the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds …
26 If you like hanging out washing rather than drying it in the bowels of an expensive machine , you will need to tuck away a line and make a dry path to get to and from it .
27 This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own .
28 To repeat , however , the interpretation of competitive strength as current strength is preferable , because it focuses the dynamic management of the group portfolio on the grid itself , rather than leaving it as an inference of the underlying analysis .
29 You may well think indeed that I 'm wasting your time in calling this an assumption rather than recognising it as a plain fact .
30 Pershing II , which dives steeply onto its target rather than hitting it in a shallow trajectory can carry a special ‘ earth-penetrator ’ warhead that will bore through soil to attack underground bunkers .
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