Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sad to discover it is happening again . ’ |
| 2 | Thrill as you realise it 's coming soon ! |
| 3 | Latest figures show it is attracting only 4.4 million viewers . |
| 4 | The company that bottles the water says it 's acting completely within the law and is simply responding to customer demand . |
| 5 | Now it , now it , he says it 's getting quite serious now , cos apparently came up with erm these four cases where erm the people have lived an absolutely normal pure life |
| 6 | With Rover works in the region employing thousands in Cowley and Swindon , the company says it 's looking forward to an upturn later in the year , they say jobs are n't at risk . |
| 7 | Ann Black , NALGO Branch Secretary , says it 's becoming increasingly difficult to provide the professional services we supply to students . |
| 8 | If he has a secret , PC Danby says it 's making as many friends as possible . |
| 9 | He says it 's going well so far , although we have had some problems with ticket touts . |
| 10 | Fire stations at Woburn Sands and Wolverton could be shut down if county councillors agree to make cuts in the fire service.But the county says it is trying hard to avoid cuts in that part of the budget . |
| 11 | Although the number of fatal accidents on farms has fallen to about 60 a year , Carl Boswell , the Health and Safety Executive 's chief agricultural inspector , says it is proving very difficult to cut the tally further . |
| 12 | Ontos says it is working closely with Sun on front-end object interface technologies , and that Sun is very interested in taking the Sybase-link stuff for its own use . |
| 13 | And he says it is becoming more common for people to sue for medical negligence after a delay of ten , twenty , even thiry years -- but such course is fraught with problems . |
| 14 | This government is not believing in integrated strategy , it never has done and it never will do and with the current the Government expansion plans it is becoming less and less likely . |
| 15 | But the union has said it is going ahead with a formal appeal to the Employment Appeals Tribunal . |
| 16 | Given the composition of Council , it is likely that only the DTI stands in the way of adoption of this proposal : if it is adopted , I hope we will be spared further sanctimonious claims to the high ground by the Institute , and that it concedes it is operating predominantly in the interests of ( some of ) its members . |
| 17 | I suppose it 's getting more than one tape done now |
| 18 | how should the system be controlled to ensure it is working properly ? |
| 19 | I du n no what the time is , but I reckon it 's getting pretty late . |
| 20 | And I feel it 's getting really really thin . |
| 21 | ‘ I know but I feel it is becoming more and more appropriate to my response to everything and that it must come soon . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ That does n't mean it 's going there . ’ |
| 23 | With like at stake , she does n't think it 's asking too much for a reduced speed limit , crossing and street lights . |
| 24 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 25 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 26 | However , we fear it is becoming so intense that many members of the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council 's Planning Committee are in danger of losing sight of their duty to have regard to vital Government planning guidance aimed at protecting the open countryside from unnecessary development . |
| 27 | I mean it 's looking now . |
| 28 | It 's , I mean it 's going anyway , it 's working . |
| 29 | Erm , the er , there seems to be kind of latency period when great , innovations in human thought are followed by considerable turbulence and upset , and the figure responsible becomes a kind of er , you know bogey person , that , that , that , that people get , get perhaps that 's certainly true of Darwin , though I think it 's abating now . |
| 30 | In fact I think it 's becoming more beautiful . ’ |