Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supermarket 's suppliers Gulf Oil , based in Cheltenham , said it was reacting to a local situation and Tesco says the cut is part of it 's service to customers , denying it 's creating an artificially low price . |
| 2 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is denying it 's seeking an out of court settlement for haemophiliacs infected with the AIDS virus . |
| 3 | The Labour foreign affairs spokesman , Mr George Foulkes , yesterday demanded a government statement announcing it was abandoning the plan . |
| 4 | We are not pretending it 's taking place today . |
| 5 | He stared at it , puzzled , deciding it was pulsating , with red lines swelling and diminishing in the self-same rhythm ; tentacles that throbbed with the heart beat of the central creature . |
| 6 | They are interested in why they are paying such a high price for a service and why the company or companies providing it are making enormous profits when they are in a protected monopoly . |
| 7 | One of the arms holding it was getting tired . |
| 8 | Now it is important that you find out about your blood pressure , because again erm if that is , is rising it 's putting your |
| 9 | But my opinion on this is really fairly redundant , because the people who are buying it are going to be pros — either that or seasoned bank robbers ! |
| 10 | My next comment about erm concerning it 's getting saving tables and the like we 've actually er agreed accommodation schedule for this year and that 's following fro from some changes in Customer Services o , in July . |
| 11 | good game … who 's he kidding it 's going to be a cracker … what 's the odds I wonder on a Gloucester … |
| 12 | And it , it becomes you 'd never actually get the thing printed and you 'd never actually get the thing distributed because you , you , you 're wondering what to put in , what not to put in as it were and sticking to the specifics er at least it 's getting it 's getting something out and I do n't , personally I do n't see any , any real problem in personalizing it further and as much to indicate , right , without obvious prejudice to the new union erm to indicate er in , in some general or specific sense , if that does n't sound like sort of like contradictory , on on the , the , the betterment of , of representation for members within , within Northumberland come unison . |
| 13 | It 's getting it 's getting it up a bit is n't it ? |
| 14 | But it 's getting it 's getting the image it 's getting |
| 15 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 16 | Or are you saying it 's resolving the problem today and next month it 's gon na be as bad again . |
| 17 | People keep saying it 's going to take time before I get back to where I was , but I want it to happen sooner . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not saying it 's going to be easy , giving all this up , I mean . |
| 19 | Well I was n't sure whether Paul was saying it 's gon na be held up because of that ? |
| 20 | A reply came thanking us for our letter and saying it is receiving attention . |
| 21 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 22 | ‘ I joined the club when it was going into the Vauxhall Conference and people were saying it was going under . |
| 23 | The French press was bubbling with stories last week about the Franco-Italian semiconductor maker SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with one report saying it was planning an increase by a third the capacity at its test and assembly plant in Muar , Malaysia , and another promising an accord on tomorrow with Mitsubishi Electric Corp on Flash memories . |
| 24 | THE GOVERNMENT admitted yesterday that its pollution inspectorate lacked almost a quarter of its quota of professional inspectors , nine months after saying it was recruiting 13 extra staff , writes Nicholas Schoon . |
| 25 | ‘ Before when I was boostin' it was shoplifting , misdemeanour , doin' 90 days — nowadays it 's robbery one , and attempted assault if you get caught with a razor . |
| 26 | Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price . |
| 27 | the other way of doing it is getting woman with bigger boobs |
| 28 | So , so the people that are not making any money out of it by doing it are selling it to them very cheap so it is their own fault ! |
| 29 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 30 | Even if it began to howl or to wave its rattle , we would hardly claim that by so doing it was discriminating between the items mentioned and a myriad others ; indeed it would be odd to talk of its discriminating at all . |