Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [coord] it [is] " 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 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |
| 3 | People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that . |
| 4 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 5 | I I know what you 're saying and it 's different to the way I 'm interpreting it . |
| 6 | I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps |
| 7 | Now , it 's alright , I 'm looking at people and they 're smiling and it 's throwing me . |
| 8 | I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting . |
| 9 | But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles . |
| 10 | Right , that 's the other element , it 's what you think they think you should be doing and it 's amazing how few people , yeah that 's the yeah |
| 11 | The idea of devoting one 's career to helping the other fellow on his way , rejoicing , may be ennobling but it is sometimes more evident in theory than in practice . |
| 12 | And I could be throwing but it 's the sort of thing that 's gon na come into your circuit stuff . |
| 13 | I 'm working but it 's half past twelve in n it ? |
| 14 | The analyses of the multiple choice versions suggest strongly that many pupils were guessing and it is only the non-multiple choice versions which are reported here . |
| 15 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 16 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 17 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 18 | And they 'll check that out for you and we 'll see what 's happening but it 's just in case there 's any arthritis or anything like that that 's |
| 19 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 20 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 21 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So he , he , as I was talking to her last night on the phone the front door bell 's going and it 's our Fred from next door right looking after her and bringing forms for her to fill in to get dial-a-ride . |
| 24 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 25 | The deficit is rising and it is time , to use a phrase coined by the Wall Street Journal , to end these ‘ fiscal follies ’ . |
| 26 | It 's not always easy to remember these principles when you are tired , someone has soiled themselves yet again , another person is crying and it 's time to start serving lunch . |
| 27 | Yes erm but it is begging and it is it is pagan . |
| 28 | It is running but it 's not showing us anything |
| 29 | You can hear what everyone 's saying and it 's weird . |
| 30 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |