Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] it with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is easier than doing it with numbers , any day . |
| 2 | One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) . |
| 3 | I would rather lose my self than share it with Syl . |
| 4 | Planning permission will only be given if planners can show it would be cheaper to supply the demand rather than reduce it with energy conservation measures . |
| 5 | There was no easier way of embarrassing another Arab state than to charge it with betrayal of the Palestinian cause . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 7 | We are looking for people who can accept that the past has passed and , whilst remembering it with fondness , can also look to the future and view what it might bring with a degree of optimism and hope . |
| 8 | The difficulty for mid-nineteenth-century science lay not so much in admitting such a historisation of the universe — nothing was easier to conceive in an era of such overwhelmingly obvious and massive historic changes — as to combine it with uniform , continuous and non-revolutionary operations of unchanging natural laws . |