Example sentences of "is [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 2 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 3 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 4 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 5 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 6 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 7 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 8 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 9 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 10 | The best way to explain Message Queue Interface is to compare it with a standard remote procedure call , where a client sends a request to another machine and waits for the response . |
| 11 | The second way of considering the tending of the fire is to compare it to the feminine ability to create and sustain atmosphere . |
| 12 | A stop gate provides protection as the canal approaches the aqueduct which is to carry it across the River Tame ( Feb 83 guide ) and between a sewage works and an electricity substation . |
| 13 | The aim is to scrutinize it with a view to stopping it coming through the door next time . |
| 14 | Ideally , of course , the best support for any kind of camera is to mount it on a tripod , but tripods are awkward things to carry and they also have a dampening effect on spontaneity . |
| 15 | The quickest comparison is to liken it to the replacement branches mentioned above , shoot ( a ) in Fig. 5 , for example . |
| 16 | The simplest way to do this is to plant it in a dark-coloured , bottomless bucket sunk into the ground . |
| 17 | There are two ways to make an application protocol-independent : the first is to re-write it , incorporating MPTN , the second is to connect it to a separate gateway that will do the conversion . |
| 18 | ‘ Martin and his team keep kicking the ball into the penalty area and all I have to do is nod it into the net , ’ the 31-year-old rider said . |
| 19 | Every child knows that the way to break the most intractable toffee is to hit it with a poker . |
| 20 | The salesperson 's task is to provide it in a manner which does not antagonise the buyer and , yet , is convincing . |
| 21 | Indeed , the identification of meaning with the material form of language ( words , sentences , speech ) is a precondition of ordinary language use ; to use language is to trust it as a tool that expresses meaning . |
| 22 | He is basing it on the book by Martha Zamora Frida , el pincel de la angustia . |
| 23 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 24 | All you have to do is introduce it into the plebs ’ soap . |
| 25 | Your last option , if everything is closed off , is knock it on the top and try and lead into chase . |
| 26 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 27 | To define the literary text as a structure is to view it as a set of Saussurean signs ( or as a single sign , as Mukařovský ( 1970 : 69ff. ) suggested ) , in which both signifiers and signifieds are governed by a single complex system of relationships . |
| 28 | It stigmatises the conduct , which is important if the public is to view it with an appropriate degree of revulsion . |
| 29 | COOK 'S NOTE : The easiest way to crumble any blue cheese is to stroke it with a fork until crumbled . |
| 30 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |