Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For teachers and children who have not had much experience of collaborative methods of working it would offer the opportunity to explore , as a starting point , the potential of individual activities for generating worthwhile collaboration . |
| 2 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Within the modern academy , English is treated with respect , though those teaching it may feel themselves impaled on the perennial dilemma of making it appear either a soft option or inhumanely technical and jargon-ridden . |
| 4 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 5 | Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was . |
| 6 | 1.46 Given this formality of pleading it is easy to overlook the basic rule that what one does not plead one will not get at trial . |
| 7 | With the evidence destroyed , there was some hope of pretending it had never existed . |
| 8 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 9 | Some talk of extending it until the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in early July ; others favour calling an extraordinary session in September . |
| 10 | ‘ There was some talk of replanting it in the late Sixties when you were back in London . |
| 11 | A simple microscopic examination of some vaginal discharge , suspended in a salt solution , will give the diagnosis in most cases , and there are also reliable methods of culturing it in the laboratory . |
| 12 | Similarly , you must bring any court action to get compensation for a lost or damaged inland letter within 12 months of posting it . |
| 13 | The first , noted by Labov with respect to the Philadelphia neighbourhood studies , is that however good the data there is no way in the absence of a supplementary broader study of locating it in a wider sociolinguistic context . |
| 14 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 15 | If such soil as this is covered in grass , after a few years of grazing it degrades into desert . |
| 16 | After only a very few years of teaching it becomes the twenty-first or the forty-ninth . |
| 17 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 18 | Yeah , this business of pulling it down there |
| 19 | Another watch over , another day of getting it right . |
| 20 | If you had a deposit in an American bank between 1929 and 1932 , you had a one-in-ten chance of losing it . |
| 21 | In this second part we shall look at what is required of a spiritual director and suggest some ways of exploring it as a personal resource . |
| 22 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 23 | Although there is no known cure for osteoarthritis , there are some ways of making it less of a problem to ordinary living . |
| 24 | Another method of locating it is to use Beta Canis Minoris and Procyon , which point to Zeta Monocerotis ( 4.3 ) . |
| 25 | To put such an effort into perspective , it is necessary first to investigate cross-culturally the various different conceptions of ‘ objectivity ’ and different means of attaining it . |
| 26 | I 've tried a few ways of getting it off her … offering to telephone for her and so on , thinking she might improve if that was off her mind … ‘ |
| 27 | ‘ There must be some method of edging it round the corner , ’ said Ludens . |
| 28 | I mean I , what you 're saying 's quite valid I mean , i if you 've got a situation where you have been successful and you 've got an accumulation of stuff that 's been recovered from robberies , at least it gives you some method of returning it to it 's previous |
| 29 | At that same moment the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , were making contact with each other on the basis of common pictorial interests , while the Italians were banded together with an elaborate programme but no adequate means of expressing it . |
| 30 | Once you have it in your hands , there are a number of different ways of using it . |