Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This difference distinguishes causal circumstances and their effects from the other instances of necessary connection , the nomic correlates. ( 1.5 ) All necessary connections are open to forms of mathematical expression , and typically are given it in science . |
| 2 | In the final analysis you are getting nervous and undermining your chances for success because you are frightened of something which really does not matter as much as you are allowing it to . |
| 3 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 5 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 6 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 7 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 8 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 9 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 10 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 11 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe passionately in the future of this industry but what chance have we got when an avaricious few are using it for their own crazy purposes ? ’ |
| 13 | We have also developed genetic sexing methods such as I described earlier for A. albimanus and we are using it with species such as A. gambiae s.s . , |
| 14 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 15 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 16 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 17 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
| 18 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 19 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 20 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 21 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 22 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 23 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 24 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 25 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 26 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 27 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 28 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 29 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 30 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |