Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] it [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , when a teacher is speaking or demonstrating it is better not to stand in front of windows . |
| 2 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 3 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 4 | One of the major problems for us , whichever Party 's in in control , and I think if Councillor had gone to the press after this report was done and , rather than trying to score points and saying it 's all because it 's lack of Government cash , if he 'd appli if he 'd said , let's all get together on this , let's try and solve the problem , the problem 's been going on indefinitely , let's try and s , he might have gained more credibility . |
| 5 | The passengers came straggling back shedding overcoats and saying it was cold outside , and again the dining car filled up . |
| 6 | It cost me less than a tenner and for swingtipping and springtipping it was brilliant . |
| 7 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 8 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 9 | In order to understand what is " obvious " about sleep and dreaming it is necessary to examine some of the conventional ideological baggage which most Westerners carry about with them , and its historical origins . |
| 10 | It is essentially a simple notion — that we take turns to speak — but explicating it is difficult , as there is an intricate system of rules governing the sequences of sentences we use ( eg which types of question constrain which kinds of answer and the contexts in which they occur ( eg the factors which permit unexpected sequences , such as when Hello is followed immediately by Goodbye , or Goodbye is allowed to precede Hello ) . |
| 11 | True to current Ford form , there is no shortage of roadholding — but exploiting it is another matter . |