Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the family can enjoy eating the low-fat way and it will do everyone a world of good . |
| 2 | It is the time during which the evolutionary process was producing the human form as it now is , and laying down the pattern from which man , in remote retrospect , can now extract the necessary information on which to lay the foundation of the concept of the Created God , and to understand how he must develop that concept . |
| 3 | It was by actively promoting such reforms that the Labour Party in West Ham succeeded in capturing the female vote when it was first exercised . |
| 4 | Azhag flew over the battlefield on his wyvern , swooping upon regiment after regiment and harrying the retreating army as it made its way to the refuge of Wolfenburg . |
| 5 | When a firm sells something , all the production costs should be inside the box with the consumer paying the full amount that it has cost to make the product . |
| 6 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 7 | Also , I shall use the words ‘ he ’ and ‘ she ’ in describing the male transsexual as it appears appropriate in the context . |
| 8 | There was nothing to recommend preserving the old Government until it had been formally defeated at Westminster . |
| 9 | Most Chief Education Officers say they come across fewer than one case a year , thus supporting the official line that it ‘ hardly ever happens ’ . |
| 10 | If the Chief those to also want to improve passenger comfort but let me say in spite of all this er th th th the customer still favour and that is why we will be supporting the Labour resolution because it is about the state of it is about yes to keep our eyes and sort of providing a whole range of integrated public transport that goes along in parallel with that same . |
| 11 | A stunning finale is created when panoramic views of the existing castle ruin are overlaid by specially commissioned paintings reconstructing the entire castle as it was 700 years ago . |
| 12 | Judy , who has been at the pub for just over a year , spent thousands of pounds refurbishing the Grey Horse and it had been a long-time ambition to run a pub of her own . |
| 13 | Their own proposals for reform are aimed at restructuring the British press but it can be argued that even they fail to come to grips with the sort of major ‘ shortcomings ’ of the press ( and media ) identified above . |
| 14 | A cheer went up from 1,000 throats , greeting the floating city as it towered above Clydebank Town Hall . |
| 15 | Unfortunately this purely empirical observation was remarked on at length in several passages of the General Theory , giving the false impression that it had some wider theoretical significance . |
| 16 | A top European Community official said earlier that Washington would kill off six years of talks aimed at freeing world trade and boosting the global economy if it went ahead with retaliatory sanctions over EC oilseed subsidies . |
| 17 | A top European Community official said earlier that Washington would kill off six years of talks aimed at freeing world trade and boosting the global economy if it went ahead with retaliatory sanctions over EC oilseed subsidies . |
| 18 | In fact , James II fell only because of the opposition he met from the Tory-Anglican interest , and although most Tory Anglicans were determined to prevent the Revolution from running the full course that it did , the eventual constitutional settlement was in much greater concordance with their principles than historians have usually recognised . |
| 19 | What is the point of having the ultra-powerful weapon if it is not armed with the correct ammunition ? |
| 20 | But he may have been observing the traditional superstition that it is unlucky for the bridegroom to see the bride on the eve of her wedding . |
| 21 | Through the Sixties Jack and Ann worked at the Nestfield Unionist Club , in Albert Hill , Darlington , supervising the new club when it was first opened . |
| 22 | You 're learning the same information over and over again , this lot you 're learning the whole lot once it 's it 's as though every time you learned a word , you had to learn your alphabet all over again |
| 23 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 24 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 25 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent report of Lancaster health authority , a copy of which I sent him , showing the immense progress that it has made during the past year — all within its budget ? |
| 26 | Sentimental as ever , the English refrain from slaughtering the little tablefare until it has developed a taste for grass . |
| 27 | We have so far been making the simplifying assumption that it is clear , in all cases , what the original text consists of . |
| 28 | Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) . |
| 29 | The bank is advising the Australian group and it has been calculated that if its bid succeeds Morgan 's commission will add 6.5 per cent to its earnings . |
| 30 | Twoflower helped the wizard to his feet and they crouched by the altar stone , watching the manic figure as it battled the questing arms . |