Example sentences of "be [v-ing] and it [be] " 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 | I I know what you 're saying and it 's different to the way I 'm interpreting it . |
| 4 | I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps |
| 5 | Now , it 's alright , I 'm looking at people and they 're smiling and it 's throwing me . |
| 6 | I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting . |
| 7 | But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles . |
| 8 | Not strictly true , he was a lapsed communist , but Preston meant it to be provoking and it was . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Beryl was staring at him , her lips were trembling and it was clear that she was deeply disturbed . |
| 11 | Kisling , Lipchitz , Utrillo , all his friends were selling and it was bitter for him to realize that his work was not yet marketable , not to the public taste . |
| 12 | The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her mouth opened and shut ; then looking at Maggie she said , ‘ You silly daft lump , I thought you were joking and it was Simon you had brought back . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I liked it when I was a pop singer and girls were screaming and it was er mad and exciting . |
| 17 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 18 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 19 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The deficit is rising and it is time , to use a phrase coined by the Wall Street Journal , to end these ‘ fiscal follies ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yes erm but it is begging and it is it is pagan . |
| 26 | You can hear what everyone 's saying and it 's weird . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | ‘ Poverty is increasing and it 's being called dependency . |
| 29 | B. Life in Britain is changing and it is changing more and more quickly . |
| 30 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |