Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] it [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a wonderful goal , except that it is not going to be reached overnight . |
| 2 | That 's what I 'm doing , except that it 's not gon na look like that any more |
| 3 | ‘ Although if it 's still raining the ditch wo n't be too comfortable . |
| 4 | I mean would , would , would n't you think it is a , a directive that if it 's not happening in your area you make it happen ? |
| 5 | and we better get used to all that because it 's not going to change this afternoon . |
| 6 | Do n't think that because it 's actually ringing that it 's somebody ringing , or whatever . |
| 7 | Except when it is actually feeding ( it eats bacteria ) , the paramoecium is in constant motion , frequently bumping into obstacles in its path and , when it does so , reversing by switching the beat of the cilia on one side . |
| 8 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 9 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 10 | Analysts reckon AT&T has invested $2 billion in its computer division since its birth , and that it is still losing $200m a year . |
| 11 | However , in a foreword to the report , Lady Howe , the campaign 's chairman , stresses that the initiative is a long-term one and that it is only beginning to get underway . |
| 12 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 13 | Bu but basically we are , we are now going for land reform and if the , if th th the momentum from this is coming from the spontaneous actions of the peasants themselves , and if it 's not coming then we 've got ta give them the guidance to move in that direction . |
| 14 | If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it . |
| 15 | If they recognise the boat as ‘ friendly ’ and if it is n't rushing around at high speed , they will allow you to get close enough to take photographs . |
| 16 | If if it 's not going to trial |
| 17 | Marshal Tolonen put me in charge of this investigation , and while it 's still going on , you report to me , understand me , Major Ebert ? |
| 18 | Constant rain , and when it 's not raining it looks as if it 's about to . |
| 19 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 20 | And as it 's not flying on a vertical pole , it needs planning permission . |
| 21 | But if it is not calling for immediate independence , or for unity with Romania , the Popular Front is certainly demanding sovereign autonomy for Moldavia and a renewal of national culture and identity . |
| 22 | ‘ But if it is n't working out , then I 'll sell . |
| 23 | But while it is easy working out how many bedrooms and bathrooms you want , arranging them into an attractive plan that suits your site is another matter entirely . |
| 24 | But it 's alright just you know knowing about that , but when it 's actually going to happen to you , it 's something totally different . |
| 25 | Er B B C radio York you are not in the South of France but as it is persistently snowing around the county at the moment I thought you know a little French flavour . |
| 26 | It 's just standing there , and you take one [ garment ] from the pile and stick it on the ironing board and iron it , fold it , and put it down , take the next one — and it 's as though it 's never going to end . |
| 27 | He 's much more in his element in prometheus , which heaves and sighs as though it 's actually giving birth to fire . |