Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price . |
| 2 | But with football it is going to be different . |
| 3 | ‘ Within the next eight hours , but the speed it 's travelling it could be sooner . ’ |
| 4 | Alpha Microsystems has written off its Italian and French subsidiaries and will be closing them soon , citing poor margins and continuous losses : as a result it 's taking a non-recurring charge in the second quarter , ended August 30 , and posting net losses of $3m , or 99 cents a share , on sales of $12.9m , up 9% . |
| 5 | But for all the bloody good it 's doing it might as well not be there ! ’ |
| 6 | With ActionAid you know exactly where your money goes and the good it is doing . ’ |
| 7 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 8 | Unix System Laboratories has a new marketing programme it 's calling Flood Gates that will see it knock on end-user doors on behalf of Destiny with OEMs in tow . |
| 9 | if there 's no fucking cellar key it 's stopping outside on the promenade ! |
| 10 | free to come and go and er there is a contribution that 's held at the back , but here in , in the talk it 's highlighting their various ways , this is one of them that we can keep spiritually awake is by being aware of the need for financial contributions , Jehovah has done much for us through his organization and we can show love for him by full support with our time and finances and then another one look stay awake by showing love to you and act loyal sometimes it 's easier to show love to some in the congregation than others , we naturally have an affinity for one another and certain types of personalities seemed to gel with others do n't they ? |
| 11 | So whilst it 's desirable to encourage the use of rail , I think in in in practice it 's going to be er very difficult to achieve that and in therefore you should look at public transport in the round . |
| 12 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 13 | Pound for pound it 's coming off the people of Wiltshire , and it 's going to fund Kenneth Clarke 's budget deficit . |
| 14 | The central character , Fonda 's part , is a writer of television commercials who can not stand the pressure of the effect it is having on his wife Sally ( played by Susan Strasberg ) and their marriage . |
| 15 | Our language can never be entirely value free but when you speak or write you need to think carefully of the effect it is having on others . |
| 16 | No notice is taken of the effect it is having on the recipient . |
| 17 | Now , I thought , I shall be able to think this out : to find out exactly what it is that has happened to me , to see what effect it is going to have on my life , and how I am going to deal with it . |
| 18 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 19 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 20 | Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner . |
| 21 | If it 's a fairly tall one then obviously on it 's side it 's gon na long . |
| 22 | On the software side it is launching a subset of its TeamWorks range . |
| 23 | Water seeps down through the limestone , carrying along tiny deposits of the rock it 's washing away . |
| 24 | Instead of people having to read up the words in a dictionary it 's gon na be a sound dictionary . |
| 25 | Here , in the gymnasia and exercise studios , they are now worrying not so much about the effects of heavy-duty exercise on their bodily contours , but with the havoc it is wreaking on their faces . |
| 26 | BRITISH RAIL wants such high-fliers for its new breed of Euro-train guard it is using psychologists to decide suitable candidates . |
| 27 | Fancy telling them it 's me no wonder it 's going to put off . |
| 28 | And there 's no wonder it 's blowing away cos it 's just lighter than air . |
| 29 | Since most versions of legal theory are at least partial visions of law it is unsurprising that the criminal law will throw up both confirmations and refutations of most legal theories . |
| 30 | I like it fine , except for this brushing , I object to all this mess it 's doing and |