Example sentences of "it with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Healy claimed that Down District Council was in danger of spending grant aid and ratepayers ' money on a high risk tourist venture and confusing it with economic development .
2 And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo .
3 He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee .
4 The best way to do this is to compare it with real paddlers .
5 But Tod looked at it with real feeling , with the dull heat of-I do n't know thwarted love .
6 At the other end of the scale , a small and humble task can sometimes be given ritual status by attending to it with real attention and care .
7 They 've done it with real people ?
8 The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin .
9 Or , you can cover it with black plastic so that it rots down .
10 So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets , old carpets or sacking .
11 Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape .
12 ‘ The trick is to cover it with black pepper , and when that 's gone , cover it again . ’
13 A second and smaller reason for attending to causation is that too dramatic conceptions of it , such as those which connect it with certain images or ideas of power , or fate or plan , or compulsion , or logical connection , distort one 's responses to determinism .
14 When Robert II of Flanders called at St Thierry with his sister , widow of Cnut IV of Denmark , the abbot Rudolph cleansed the whole building , hung it with rich hangings and tapestries , filled it with carvings , sculptures , and other precious objects , to turn his simple Benedictine house into a suitable environment for the reception of so magnificent a prince .
15 There are also good reasons for associating it with rich clusters ( groups of several hundred galaxies ) as these seem to have a collective halo , possibly formed from the material in the original haloes of the constituent galaxies .
16 One idea is to encapsulate the haemoglobin in spherical structures of fatty material called liposomes , or to cross-link it with chemical agents .
17 The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet .
18 Sherfey ( 1970 ) points out that femininity may not be a transhistorical absolute ; but her certainty that it exists now endows it with contemporary universality .
19 We then turn to a model where the motives for capital accumulation are set explicitly in terms of the life-cycle savings theory treated in Lecture 3 , and compare it with alternative approaches ( Section 8–4 ) .
20 But someone clutched desperately at his hand , dragging it down , tugging it with astonishing strength and speed away to the side , while Lachlan twisted himself free of Hector 's grip and ducked away .
21 These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore .
22 Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade .
23 Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted .
24 When we have a £6 million food and drink deficit , it is no use reducing Scottish production to replace it with cheap imports form eastern Europe .
25 Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry .
26 ‘ You can do it with golden syrup tins , ’ Gaily said , ‘ easier than with coconuts .
27 It 's the oldest lyrical theme in the world and David Gedge adheres to it with laudable steadfastness .
28 I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard .
29 The mental strain of trying to concentrate on it with small children is considerable , and so is the physical strain of getting it all home .
30 DALGLISH 'S Liverpool had not long recorded their biggest League win this century ( 7-1 at Derby ) and followed it with five goals against Leeds .
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