Example sentences of "it [be] [v-ing] [that] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I think it 's flattering that somebody would take the time . |
| 2 | As someone who lives just outside Brighton and commutes to Autocar & Motor 's office on the outskirts of Teddington , West London , it 's fitting that I should be the Clio 's new keeper . |
| 3 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 4 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it is fitting that we should add our tribute to the many that have been made throughout the country . |
| 6 | In a way it was flattering that they should take his word . |
| 7 | Stuart Goldie , business manager at the Botanic Centre said it was fitting that it would be opening in May , as Middlesbrough started its year as Environment City . |
| 8 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 9 | Thereafter only Ward on the final afternoon played with any real confidence and it was fitting that he should score the only century of the tour just before the end of the match . |
| 10 | Besides , it was fitting that he should serve a people who were so obviously more admirable as human beings than himself . |
| 11 | The knowledge of his affair still ate away at her , and it was knowing that she could never speak to him about the affair that hurt most . |
| 12 | It was upsetting that he should have arrived on her very first real day back . |