Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before starting the drive and after completing it subjects filled in a questionnaire in which they were required to rate their ability at 12 different standard driving manoeuvres . |
| 2 | BHH Group , the property company , sprang to life after announcing it has received a bid approach . |
| 3 | The tolerability of risk will vary with context , and the basis for establishing it needs to be understood . |
| 4 | But the real question is , rather , whether there is any commonly accepted core of meaning among the various uses of the term which entitles us to say that this or that way of using it constitutes an abuse or misuse of it . |
| 5 | Even if BT gets over the hurdle of proving it does not need a licence , it will still face restrictions on the types of service it can offer . |
| 6 | Question of omitting it does n't arise unless until we get to that part of the plaintiff 's case and erm I shall hear the evidence of the plaintiff and the other witnesses first and the advocation can be renewed in due ti in due course at the proper time . |
| 7 | And that is the erm absence of understanding it seems to us from the County Planning Department of the way the actual market works , and of the need for a local authority area erm in seeking to obtain employment for its people , the need for that area to be able to offer a variety of er employment land both in quality , size and location . |
| 8 | Ours goes cost of living it says . |
| 9 | Whichever of these six defences in section 4 is raised , the burden of establishing it rests upon the defendant . |
| 10 | At the time of writing it seems that digital tape recorders sold to the public will have various anti-piracy measures built into them for this very reason . |
| 11 | Indeed , at the time of writing it has seven out of the 15 titles on The Bookseller 's bestsellers list . |
| 12 | At the time of writing it appears that the broker in this case has gone into liquidation without making the required payment , and the couple must now turn to the Investors ' Compensation Scheme , which can pay compensation in cases where ( a ) the broker has gone into liquidation , and ( b ) the original investment was taken up about 28 August 1988 . |
| 13 | The public remains sceptical , but those who support the notion of satanic abuse say that social workers must not fall into the trap of believing it does not exist , just because it is difficult to prove . |
| 14 | When an organisation decides the kind of training it needs , CEPALC tutors work alongside trainees at their workplace or location of their choice . |
| 15 | The maxim that life should not be extended at the cost of worsening it has an obvious appeal : it is also a gross over-simplification . |
| 16 | The key to 91 appears to fit the lock to the internal doors here , but 1 ( wasted ) round of turning it shows that it does n't unlock them . |
| 17 | If such soil as this is covered in grass , after a few years of grazing it degrades into desert . |
| 18 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |
| 19 | There is no time for equilibrium to be established and instead of reaching it reaches Vo . |
| 20 | When I think of the hours of weeding it saves , it appears nothing but beautiful to me . |
| 21 | But , most importantly , before a proposition can be submitted to the traditional source of lending it has to be accepted in traditional terms , or have a proven track-record of success . |
| 22 | I mean yesterday I did a load of washing it 's been in the garage ever since cos I |
| 23 | Many women are unable to get beyond this sequence , finding It so graphic that the act of watching it becomes close to an act of violation in itself . |
| 24 | WHILE this approach undoubtedly has advantages in that effort is directed to areas where a known interest exists — TO my way of thinking it fails to stimulate growth sufficiently quickly to satisfy what I consider SHOULD be a market led approach , nor does it satisfactorily communicate our case to the potential customers . |
| 25 | Let's not do anything silly like knocking it out-of-bounds . ’ |
| 26 | Surely , after covering 11 wars , including Vietnam , he could be forgiven for calling it quits ? |
| 27 | According to doctors Mills and Faunce of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales , melatonin tricks the body into thinking it has slept more than it has , has mild pain-killing qualities , and slows brainwave activity , thus ‘ enhancing meditative practices ’ . |
| 28 | This is a somewhat more complex task to achieve , since the machine that is docked ( the client ) needs to be fooled into thinking it has more disk drives than it really has , and the desktop machine ( the server ) has to be made to share its resources with the client . |
| 29 | Like everything else in life that is worth having it requires some effort and self discipline . |
| 30 | But the real skill in producing it lies with one man , ‘ Sniffer In Chief ’ Frank Newlands . |