Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard is responsible for seeing that it is done . |
| 2 | Waiter bought the restaurant after hearing that it was set to become a pizza parlour . |
| 3 | The main reason for believing that it was neglected was its complete absence from any cinema newsreels of the period . ’ |
| 4 | However exciting his paper , his thesis seemed in danger of crumbling if it were reworked into a conventional historical discourse . |
| 5 | Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window . |
| 6 | Small points again , like accuracy of feeding when it is needed , become natural to them because they are constantly working at it . |
| 7 | A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality . |
| 8 | ‘ I am in favour of televising because it is going down well with my constituents … the world is paying attention ’ , said Mr David Nicholson , MP for Taunton . |
| 9 | This is regarded by the present government , along with its proposals for a national curriculum , as a means of enhancing the quality of education , and making schools more accountable to parents in a system of schooling that it is intended will be more consumer oriented . |
| 10 | Should you acquire an adult dog from a rescue centre , it may be worth enquiring whether it is marked in this manner to ensure that the record is updated when you take possession of the dog . |
| 11 | It seems as though the stag has been forced into accepting that it was dealing with a much more powerful opponent . |
| 12 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 13 | The doctors were diverted into believing that it was related to my stomach . |
| 14 | Yet there is a danger of reading too much into petitioning unless it is given a firm context . |
| 15 | The ‘ object ’ is a lump of granite , with a plaque above stating that it was brought down on ice from Westmorland during the Ice Age 300,000 years ago . |
| 16 | It is as stupid for a government to try to whip and cajole an entrenched profession into changing as it is to try to pull a fed-up donkey along the road by its ears . |
| 17 | Darkened traps are given various animal and insecticide odours which dupes the fly into thinking that it is biting a cow . |
| 18 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 19 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too . |
| 20 | Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too . |
| 21 | The flight from Bangkok was only minutes from landing when it was turned away because of a monsoon . |
| 22 | Of course , she had known it was there , but apart from testing that it was locked she had taken scant notice of it . |
| 23 | The Reindeer is to push the car park back , half way across the grass , er which is er am I correct in saying that it 's putting it back where it was ? |
| 24 | If the parents of a mentally handicapped child immediately reject the child on realising that it is handicapped , or find that life with the child is so difficult that they feel unable to cope , it falls upon the state to find an alternative place of residence , in particular on local authorities . |
| 25 | It need pay nothing , but , in reality , off-course betting has paid an annual levy to racing since it was legalised in 1960 . |
| 26 | Koraloona is 130 miles west of Sanders Island and is dangerous to shipping because it is encircled by a coral reef at times fifty miles long , marked on all Admiralty charts . |
| 27 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 28 | Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products . |
| 29 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |