Example sentences of "[v-ing] and it [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be perverse , then , to deny that very exciting things have been happening and it is no business of this chapter to disparage these remarkable advances in understanding of the brain . |
| 2 | This method is called density slicing and it was the technique used in the generation of the colour image shown on the front cover of this book . |
| 3 | Traditionally , hill sheep farmers have sold store lambs to lowland farmers for fattening and it is the latter who should benefit from the variable premia . |
| 4 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 5 | Roger Thetford says it 's an extension of orinteering and it 's a real challenge |
| 6 | Had a very , very good over from Bill Tufnell there , it 's always a bit tricky when you come on to bowl and it 's turning and it 's a long day ahead and you , you 're expected to get hissed and you expect to get hissed , and you can get very impatient when they do n't come , but he 's got one now , he 's got , now he 's bowled well all morning now , he 's bowled almost for an hour , but he 's got that one wicket and he , that over was full of confidence , he tossed one up , misjudged the length and got into a bit of a tangle and then he bowled a quicker one which tried to cut , he then misjudged the pace and he could off nick it to the , a very , very good over and he 's bowling with , with great confidence at the moment . |
| 7 | This is ultra running and it is the latest athletic challenge to hit Britain . |
| 8 | Fellers come running , bobbies come running and it was a right old dust-up . |
| 9 | I actually went back upstairs and because , I mean although , I mean I was dancing and it was a late night , I had n't been drinking so , you know , although I was , I was tired , you know I had n't been drinking and erm so I actually felt erm wide awake |
| 10 | But then you got three or four hundred a day coming and it was a little over-crowded . |
| 11 | Chucking other people 's money about in courageous fashion is just what architects are always being accused of doing and it is the average member who bears the brunt of such criticism . |
| 12 | Starting this system with cases that are at different stages is time consuming and it is a suitable task for a student to perform during a summer holiday . |
| 13 | At the turn of the century , Russian society was changing and it was the challenge of the autocracy to absorb these changes or push increasingly alienated social groups further into political and social isolation . |