Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have to attend enormous numbers of operations and watch experts doing it . |
| 2 | On the map it was pretty well blank space , save for the thin blue lines of creeks or marsh drains crisscrossing it . |
| 3 | But they have the grave disadvantage that they must spend almost all their waking hours eating it if they are to obtain an adequate diet . |
| 4 | But the Pill is not suitable for some girls , who have a lot of problems and side effects using it . |
| 5 | It is 19 7 ft 6in wide and 43 8ft long , the roof columns dividing it into four longitudinal bays . |
| 6 | Beyond the sitting room , a large area with an old brick fireplace set back in a spacious alcove , piles of cut logs flanking it , a narrow passage led to the kitchen and a small study . |
| 7 | Fremont , California-based Cirrus Logic Inc says it has received two shareholders ' class action lawsuits alleging it violated US securities laws ; in the usual phrase , it dismisses them as without merit and intends to contest them vigorously . |
| 8 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 9 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 10 | Glen Brittle already has a youth hostel and a campsite , and in the height of the season the single track road to the shore can barely cope with the number of climbers and tourist cars using it . |
| 11 | HP claims that 7100-based business servers running it provide commercial users with the industry 's fastest uniprocessor server performance on TPS-A benchmarks . |
| 12 | With all the oscillation that was involved in that er shop stewards taking cases up , the shop stewards discussing it with the management , the management 's involvement , the management 's attitude becoming gradually , not weakened but er inured to the stewards ' fundamental logical claims on behalf of their members , made it easier you know , and progress was , was being noted that , and earnings were rising , earnings were rising . |
| 13 | Armour is beautifully made from a myriad of tiny metal scales making it lightweight and very flexible but stronger than steel . |
| 14 | The National Lottery Bill has sparked a storm of controversy with charities , football pools companies and bingo halls claiming it will hit their takings . |
| 15 | Le Ponant , named after a trade wind and a small group of islands off Brittany , is 88 metres of sheer grace and beauty , its three huge sailing masts making it a breathtaking sight . |
| 16 | ’ We do get a number of public schoolgirl types doing it , and I think it 's pretty sick . |
| 17 | This hybrid bike from Raleigh combines popular mountain and road bike features making it perfectly suited for people who like mountain bikes but have no intention of going near a mountain . |
| 18 | It is also becoming a substantial force in team sports , with virtually all UK First Division soccer clubs using it . |
| 19 | Talk turns to the night before when we were woken as the convoy hit a sandbank with such force that the steel cables holding it together were torn loose . |
| 20 | A draft European Community regulation proposing that producers label their food-stuffs with a Protected Graphical Indication ( PGI ) or Designation of Origin ( PDO ) has been given the thumbs-down at the consultation stage with trade bodies describing it as ‘ protectionist and unnecessary ’ . |
| 21 | The company says that the machines are the first real-time multiprocessing computers to use the 88110 and represent a unique 88110 implementation with large caches , local memory , and high input-output throughput supporting multiple input-output buses making it a balanced system for real-time computing . |
| 22 | With four more British soccer sides battling it out in Europe tonight , one club in particular will be trying to recapture its past glories . |
| 23 | This has transition detectors on its input-output pins enabling it to power down when the supply current drops below 15 micro-amps . |
| 24 | Since the party was dominated by trade unions accepting it meant accepting an intricate network of loyalties rather than accepting socialism : Idealism was in fact rather less necessary , or sustaining , than loyalty within a trade-union dominated Labour Party . |
| 25 | It was venerated by succeeding Popes but had unfortunately been despoiled , first by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II who , in 655 removed the gilded bronze plates which covered the dome and replaced them with lead and later , in 1625 , by the Barberini Pope Urban VIII who destroyed the portico roof in order to use the bronze beams supporting it for his own building schemes . |
| 26 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 27 | ‘ The situation in the Far East , in Asia and the Ocean expanses adjoining it , where we are permanent inhabitants and seafarers of long standing , is to us of national , state interest . ’ |
| 28 | This was originally posed by David Singer in 1961 as the problem of whether to account for the behaviour of the international system in terms of the behaviour of the nation states comprising it or vice versa . |
| 29 | with a narrow fan of glass in the transom ; two elegant sashcord windows flanking it . |
| 30 | Squealing mice seemed bedded in my ears , and green hoppity things abounded , but right smack in my mind 's eye were two teams of digitised Ice Hockey players fighting it out in front of a packed stadium . |