Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it not the time when all those who have an interest in our industry should sit down and discuss our future together and try to get back to the situation where the industry controls and governs itself instead of allowing it to be manipulated by those who purchase our product ? ’ he asked about 200 delegates . |
| 2 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 3 | And we began the long process of actually sort of causing it to be reborn . |
| 4 | It seemed nothing could stop him , but there was still that chance of losing it to be overcome , and sure enough it came . |
| 5 | Examples would be the abandonment in the later eighteenth century of figured bass and of optional parts in favour of completely written-out orchestral scores ; and the writing out of vocal ornamentation by Rossini , followed by other nineteenth-century Italian opera composers , instead of leaving it to be improvised — though this did not necessarily mean that singers followed their instructions ! |
| 6 | Either the directive or the reasons for holding it to be binding should be counted but not both . |
| 7 | The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena , where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other 's throats ; Virgin 's tribulations showed the difficulties in allowing it to be governed by free market principles . |
| 8 | The appeal was based upon the consideration that Harris could have suffered foetal brain damage as a result of alcohol abuse by his mother , or from blows inflicted by his father who had tried to abort the foetus , but had succeeded only in causing it to be born three months prematurely . |
| 9 | It could prove to be a good roll of the dice , for Mr Hughes has also written a book on the mathematics of five-dice games and devised special packaging to exploit the game 's addictiveness by allowing it to be played while it is hanging from the supermarket shelf . |
| 10 | Also added to StreetTalk is the Advanced Object facility , which makes it easier to locate and identify network objects — such as users , resources , applications lists etc — by allowing it to be identified by name , and having an unlimited number of attributes associated with it . |