Example sentences of "it [is] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's getting towards that time of year when you want to make plenty of garments and the faster the better . |
| 2 | You get the feeling that BMW likes the attention it 's getting in this area — plenty of supercar glory by association without getting its environmentally friendly hands dirty . |
| 3 | But it 's moving towards that end , where , do it or else . |
| 4 | But as we 're seeing it 's happening to all sorts of people . |
| 5 | Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts . |
| 6 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 7 | I think it 's working in this club or summat . |
| 8 | It 's going into another statwell so that little . |
| 9 | It 's going through that system , and once they 've given us the go ahead then we can go to the solicitor in Lancaster . |
| 10 | See it 's going in this column |
| 11 | It it 's sitting in those chairs I was yeah sitting on them , on them sloping chairs |
| 12 | It is binding without any need for agreement on the part of the parties affected . |
| 13 | However , if one party is to bear the costs of the other it is important to specify this in the heads and ensure it is binding on all parties . |
| 14 | The consensus among observers has been that IBM Corp will find it needs to cut many more than the 25,000 positions it is targeting for this year , so there was little surprise when both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal last week came out with independent stories saying the cuts would go much higher . |
| 15 | Finally , the variety of ways in which linguistic terms have been applied to literary narrative suggests that even in the most linguistically conscious theories of literature , the role of linguistics remains subservient : it can never supply literary analysis with prescriptive procedures when it is operating at this level of the literary text . |
| 16 | It is degrading for both parties , and makes any serious or intimate conversation impossible . |
| 17 | It is killing on both sides , Mr Gibson 's death is the fifty first this year , lives taken , families destroyed . |
| 18 | Winix has already captured support from several computer firms and systems integrators including Tandem , Motorola , MicroAge and Science Applications International Corp ( SAIC ) , and says it is negotiating with several OEMs . |
| 19 | MCI Communications Corp describes a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is talking with several cable television companies about partnerships , with them possibly buying a stake in MCI as no more than rumour . |
| 20 | It is striking under these circumstances that no CMEA government used Western technology as a spearhead for economic reform . |
| 21 | But it is heading for another record if the local newspapers are to be believed : that for sweatshops employing cheap , illegal , mainly female and immigrant workers who assemble the micro-electronics parts . |