Example sentences of "to [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 2 | Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals . |
| 3 | I am about to acquire a C reg Range Rover EFi with a view to using it as my sleeping quarters on holiday . |
| 4 | Existing software which incorporates documentation procedures is being evaluated with a view to using it as a basis for this development . |
| 5 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 6 | As a matter of fact , as I was larding my toast with the old Maria Schneider this morning , preparatory to sprinkling it with Ecstasy , I worked out a scenario involving eight women , providing one of them was Indian and none were dressed as Carmelites . |
| 7 | We would ask the Lord Chancellor to look at our contribution closely with a view to adopting it for the judiciary . ’ |
| 8 | / This and the company carries out all steps of production in its factories , from preparing the yarn to weaving it on looms designed and manufactured by company engineers , and Brintons factories are considered the most advanced weaving factories from the technical aspect in the whole world , also Brintons company is considered among the largest weaving companies with a production capacity exceeding 100,000 square metres per week / . |
| 9 | Human regard for the sea has varied from the taking of it for granted as a tiresome obstacle to trade and exploration , to romanticising it in what so many writers are pleased to call its moods . |
| 10 | This , his last concerto , was the first great concerto for the clarinet , and nothing has come near to matching it among all of the wind concertos written since . |
| 11 | If you do it twice , do omega squared on it , and it 's equivalent to multiplying it by minus one . |
| 12 | This would generate the extra revenue needed to pay the higher cost of replacing nuclear energy with biomass , compared to replacing it with fossil fuels . |
| 13 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 14 | This fear does not arise from a view of themselves as unskilled in formal police requirements , for no policemen or women would express that they suspect this of themselves , although some admit to suspecting it of others . |
| 15 | You never come near to suspecting it in the North . |
| 16 | Now there 's a new book , Royal Jelly — the Guide to the World 's Richest Health Food ( Thorsons , £4.99 ) by Irene Stein , whose enthusiasm for the miracle supplement extends to selling it through her company . |
| 17 | She may also invite someone who will be important when it comes to selling it in Cabinet — someone like Willie Whitelaw . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They acted out the robbery in full so that when it came to describing it to everyone , to police , and to insurance investigators , they would be able to describe it in perfect detail . ’ |
| 19 | Over the years various attempts will have been made to insulate houses like these , but these are unlikely to match modern standards , and it will pay you to check out your existing level of insulation , with a view to improving it for the future . |
| 20 | Many people have taken to abbreviating it to ‘ Compco ’ . |
| 21 | It is quite evident that the majority feel that Medau Blue should be retained for use on special occasions thought you are not nearly so favourably disposed to wearing it in class — at least in its present form ! |
| 22 | The emergence of the stream-of-consciousness novel at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was obviously related to a huge epistemological shift in culture at large , from locating reality in the objective world of actions and things as perceived by common sense , to locating it in the minds of individual thinking subjects , each of whom constructs their own reality , and has difficulty in matching it with the reality constructed by others . |
| 23 | The council bought a shop and the flat above in 1975 with a view , eventually , to demolishing it in order to extend Brighton Polytechnic . |
| 24 | Well if they would let us borrow it , that 's a different matter to buying it from then because we then would n't make any money on it . |
| 25 | Traditional grammar The teaching of grammar through analysis , as opposed to teaching it through analogy ( compare the audio-lingual method and the grammar translation method ) . |
| 26 | It may be an advantage for the expert 's decision of which enforcement is sought to be accompanied by reasons , because the foreign court is likely to be more sympathetic to enforcing it in that form . |
| 27 | As New Zealanders sifted through the ashes of their World Cup defeat they were beginning to realise that after forming a recipe with which to win the Cup in 1987 they just as surely set up a system which would lead to losing it in 1991 . |
| 28 | He sliced a quarter-inch off the block and went back to chopping it into fine powder . |
| 29 | The principal Opposition party is committed to cutting defence expenditure by a quarter , and the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) is committed to cutting it by a half . |
| 30 | We got used to having it with cream on the top , it was so thick . |