Example sentences of "[that] [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is recommended that this error log is never allowed to grow so large that typing it to the screen takes a significant amount of time . |
| 2 | The following extract is exactly as written : ‘ When I tell you that something you use every day could be put to better use — and that using it better could help you to win greater influence , more respect and higher status , promotion and a larger income … it could widen your circle of friends and possibly even secure you fame and power — you might well be curious to know what that ‘ something ’ is … |
| 3 | We need to be aware that this approach has a strong emotional appeal and that using it involves taking responsibility and guiding these emotions , once engaged . |
| 4 | He realized that accepting it as an office would have meant being pressed into staying late at night talking shop . |
| 5 | A careful read of this book will show that underpinning it is a terrible truth . |
| 6 | So , I know it 's a sensitive thing this elderly person 's home , but I would argue that underpinning it is a logic . |
| 7 | After all , the body contains more collagen than any other protein : it should be no surprise that protecting it could do a lot of good . |
| 8 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 9 | Section 5(3) provides that a person is not liable under section 2 for any damage by an animal ‘ kept on any premises or structure to a person trespassing there , if it is proved either ( a ) that the animal was not kept there for the protection of persons or property ; or ( b ) ( if the animal was kept there for the protection of persons or property ) that keeping it there for that purpose was not unreasonable . ’ |
| 10 | If operating the market entails transaction costs , it is even clearer that establishing it entails implementation costs , although the difficulty of identifying and quantifying them means that estimates vary widely . |
| 11 | Scientists from the Oxford-based Water Research Centre estimate that the new standard is currently exceeded in around 4 million homes in Britain , and that meeting it will require removing all lead piping from homes . |
| 12 | Erm if you 're going to use =thing something like that in the exam I mean there 's no reason why you should n't use that multiplying it by one point whatever the percentage is . |
| 13 | Do n't think that releasing it through your local record shop is the answer — just ask DNA what happened when they tried it with their version of Tom 's Diner shortly before the A&M rep visited the shop . |
| 14 | The Plant committee was expected to report to the Labour Party conference in the autumn , but Mr Kinnock denied that turning it into an official government commission was a delaying tactic . |
| 15 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 16 | going this far then the doctor put on it that going it had on it all that he hates which he takes it means either osteoarthritic |
| 17 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 18 | Mm I 'm sure that holding it out like this one can do |
| 19 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's what they used to say about women ’ is not a proof that saying it about a child is false . |
| 21 | They also show that redressing it is a matter of importance to feminists as well as to philosophers . |
| 22 | ( Crick , 1979 , p. 132 ) The language is not so hard to understand , and it is jejune to suppose that not knowing it has impeded philosophy , or that knowing it will help a lot . ) |
| 23 | One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality . |
| 24 | Bridges , who edited his poetry in 1911 , said dryly that reading it ‘ makes one see why schoolmasters wish their boys to play games ’ . |
| 25 | And plainly Peirce does not deny that we have some common sense grasp of it ; but he holds that taking it seriously transforms the character of inquiry . |
| 26 | And who is that whooping it up at the bar with a glass in his hand ? |
| 27 | What do you think as I fear that putting it right may be a costly job ? |
| 28 | It just means that putting it first |
| 29 | It is an act of love to roll the toothpaste tube if we know that squeezing it in the middle irritates our partner . |
| 30 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |