Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still . |
| 3 | People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that . |
| 4 | I think , I think in fact you 're , you 're not having the problems that we 're having where it 's very difficult so you 've got er a really nice representation but have n't quite gone far enough . |
| 5 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 6 | I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps |
| 7 | I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting . |
| 8 | a lot about it and sha n't be , frankly I 'm relieved I do n't actually know a lot but when the meeting to discuss what we 're supposed to do is on December tenth yo so I 'm a bit torn cos I in a way that 's what I ought to be doing even though the welfare business in a way that 's wh that 's what I ought to be doing cos it 's entirely . |
| 9 | The idea of devoting one 's career to helping the other fellow on his way , rejoicing , may be ennobling but it is sometimes more evident in theory than in practice . |
| 10 | I bought an answering machine — I leave it on all day when I 'm working because it 's quite a foil ! |
| 11 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |
| 12 | They are arguing that it is not fair to have the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have-nots ’ ; it 's not fair to have a north and south divide . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 15 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 16 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 17 | And they 'll check that out for you and we 'll see what 's happening but it 's just in case there 's any arthritis or anything like that that 's |
| 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 | I particularly like the way the teacher 's emphasising that it 's sometimes all right to be rude to adults . |
| 21 | It is running but it 's not showing us anything |
| 22 | And I 'm sure that that 's part of why sounds pretty good when he 's saying that it 's not the body that makes us who we are , it 's not the body that matters . |
| 23 | Which is recognizing that it 's not there to start with . |
| 24 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 25 | Thousands of people do it every day ; what 's wrong with me that my inside 's screaming that it 's not real ? |
| 26 | Now it is rarely seen , though the present herb revival is ensuring that it is once more being propagated and distributed . |
| 27 | Massive chunks of history are missing and it is really not possible to understand the Abstract Expressionists without reference to how they incorporated or reacted against those earlier tendencies . |