Example sentences of "it [verb] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
| 2 | It has been enjoying spectacular growth for its sales of the super absorbent polymers which make nappies that much more comfortable . |
| 3 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 4 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 5 | In spite of having more than twice the capacity of the old Grassmarket theatre it has been recording 85 per cent audience capacity since opening last year . |
| 6 | The supermarket firm , Gateway , is taking legal action against a Northampton firm which it alleges is selling fire-damaged Gateway foods . |
| 7 | Described as " red patriots " the group had only eight deputies in the Supreme Soviet , but observers noted that the ideas which it promoted were gathering increasing support in Russia . |
| 8 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 9 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 10 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 11 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 12 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 13 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 14 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 15 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 16 | It had been lying idle since a Saturday afternoon in October , with begonia tubers in its grass-box and a bundle of yellowing newspapers balanced on its engine . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , yes , it 's been getting worse lately , ’ says Bob Busby . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's been getting worse . ’ |
| 19 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 20 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 21 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 22 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |
| 23 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 24 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 25 | Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week . |
| 26 | A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this . |
| 27 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 28 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 29 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
| 30 | It 's been selling all day . |