Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So measures of poor welfare include finding that , because of the way an animal is kept or treated , it is not able to live as long or finding that it is not able to grow or is not able to breed . |
| 2 | It insists upon lumping the whole of reality together as a single ‘ thing ’ or ‘ system ’ like a body , rather than recognising that it is more a collection of different things , a network of interrelated but separate systems , animate and inanimate , that can not be welded together into one ‘ thing ’ . |
| 3 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 4 | Something — he was n't sure just what — which had caused the entire north to rise like yeast in sudden and furious ferment , the whole of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire seething with militant men and women — highly militant , those women — on the march , carrying banners and loaves of bread on the end of sticks , singing hymns and psalms and chanting that it was no longer a matter of wages . |
| 5 | Durance shut him up , saying he had never had reason to doubt the woman 's loyalty and inferring that it was more reliable than Maurin 's . |
| 6 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 7 | Hansen then flew Wixsom and mechanic Nick Quint to Florida for the purpose of inspecting N9837A and verifying that it was all there . |
| 8 | Indeed , Mr Voss had last year written to The Daily Telegraph extolling the place — ‘ for patrons who wish to relax in comfort and splendour and enjoy the delights of haute cuisine ’ — and complaining that it was n't fair that Paddy Burt had written about a nearby Dorset establishment ( albeit unfavourably ) . |
| 9 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 10 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |
| 11 | There 's nothing worse than being in a foul temper and knowing that it 's only you , you 've got to blame for it . |
| 12 | Facing the realities of the background that has moulded their early life and finding forgiveness and understanding for those who , in the name of love , have moulded this type into submission , and learning that it is all right to show feeling and emotions will ultimately bring release and freedom to follow as their hearts dictate . |
| 13 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 14 | Then they were among them , milling about the horses , and the terrified animals were bucking and screaming and it was all Riven could do to stay mounted . |
| 15 | ‘ Have you ever seen a woman yoked to her husband pulling a plough because they ca n't afford an ox or a horse , while their baby lies under some hedgerow , wrapped in rags , sucking a crust and whining because it is too weak with hunger to cry ? ’ |
| 16 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 17 | In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so . |
| 18 | While admitting that it was originally the understatement of German earnings which led to this move by the German analysts , in this we nevertheless have a model on which to work . |
| 19 | In my opinion , the existence of an alleged defence is a matter to be taken into account in the exercise of the court 's discretion , when deciding whether it is just and convenient that interlocutory relief should be granted . |
| 20 | Thus the existence of an alleged defence to a criminal prosecution is merely a matter to be taken into account in the exercise of the court 's discretion when considering whether it is just and convenient that interlocutory relief should be granted ( post , pp. 173D–F , 178H , 179A , 190D–E ) . |
| 21 | In the Cleveland Report , the British Association of Social Workers is reported as stating that it is absolutely essential that those involved with the family should conduct the fullest assessment of the family background . |
| 22 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 23 | In doing so he discovered that there were spontaneously generated potentials ( the EEG ) as well as showing that it was indeed possible to detect electrical brain responses to stimuli . |
| 24 | He was off the field throughout the second day having treatment for a pulled thigh muscle , but said today : ‘ I have not felt the injury at all when batting and it is much better . ’ |