Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 2 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 3 | These are claimed by the purchaser of an industrial building who is using it for his or her own trade or leasing it to another for that person 's trade , at the rate of 4% per annum on cost . |
| 4 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 5 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 6 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 7 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 8 | A vet has borrowed medical technology normally seen in maternity hospitals and is using it on farms to bring more certainty to lambing . |
| 9 | IBM is using it in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got volumes . |
| 10 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 11 | ‘ Nowadays somebody who uses the word nigger is seen as racist , whereas Biggles is using it in a neutral sense that 's no longer there . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 13 | But there 's something she does know and she 's keepin' it to herself . |
| 14 | ‘ Any'ow my Billy ai n't got much , an' what 'e 'as got 'e 's keepin' it fer 'imself . ’ |
| 15 | Under a previous pact , Unir is porting it to Intel . |
| 16 | It 's eating it after that 's the problem |
| 17 | An explanation has a sharing function if the speaker is producing it in order to share his knowledge with other people , and so extend their understanding . |
| 18 | Or , rather somebody 's signing it for him . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's going to die , and she 's keeping it from me . |
| 20 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 21 | Our first Diary reported his offer of a £1000 bet on Fallon to win ; without takers and with the benefit of two weeks canvassing he 's upping it to £2000 , at odds of 8–11 . |
| 22 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 23 | He is basing it on the book by Martha Zamora Frida , el pincel de la angustia . |
| 24 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 25 | That 's all you 've got recorded on the tape is explaining it to everybody what it bloody is . |
| 26 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 27 | How do you know , oh it 's saving it onto the disk now |
| 28 | He 's saving it for his kids , that 's what he says . |
| 29 | No wonder he 's pushing it through doors he do n't want to come within gate . |
| 30 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |