Example sentences of "is [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archaeology has become significantly more scientific , with the result that science is helping it evolve from being something of a treasure hunt to a high tech study . |
| 2 | If anyone is to go it should be Whyte and Fairclough , the two defenders who contributed so much to Leeds downfall in 1992–3 . |
| 3 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 4 | One of the groups which developed the technique is using it to investigate chemistry ; the other is claiming a record for generating the shortest wavelength of coherent ( laser-like ) light . |
| 5 | Sometimes we may apply relatively simple yardsticks , such as whether the school has or has not received the newly recommended material and whether it is using it . |
| 6 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 7 | These questions concern the information being used by the animal , and the way in which the animal is using it , so the question arises whether artificial intelligence ( AI ) might help us solve them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only Data General is using it . |
| 10 | IBM is using it in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got volumes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So a three kilowatt fire is using it at a terrific rate , it 's running away with electricity . |
| 13 | A er twenty five watt lamp in the fridge is using it at a very low rate , it 's hardly using any electricity . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 17 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 18 | As with all techniques , it 's important to be clear about why one is using it . |
| 19 | Hospital advertising is popular and getting ever more sophisticated so you need to find out what is on offer and who is using it . |
| 20 | A vet has borrowed medical technology normally seen in maternity hospitals and is using it on farms to bring more certainty to lambing . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 23 | She 's is using it . |
| 24 | Teaching about computers is important , both technically and from the role they 're going to have in the children 's lives , but as I have said before the main interest , from an educational point of view , is using it as one would use a video tape or an overhead projector or a blackboard and a piece of chalk . |
| 25 | Toshack has a two-year contract worth £600,000 ( figure courtesy of The Sun ) and an awful lot to do if he is to see it out . |
| 26 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 27 | The kestrel is our most common falcon , but what a delight it is to see it hunting in a natural habitat rather than at the edge of a motorway . |
| 28 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 29 | The most usual way of defining the middle class is to see it as consisting of those individuals who have non-manual occupations , that is occupations which involve , in some sense , an intellectual element . |
| 30 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |