Example sentences of "[adv] it [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I direct the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the Islington crime survey , which gives rather different evidence about how much crime is being committed and how much it is rising ? |
| 2 | Switching the cabinet voicing off , you realise just how much it is working to condition the sound ready for tape ; because without it , you are straight back to the two gnats in a bottle sound , beloved of direct outputs on many amps . |
| 3 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 4 | The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region . |
| 5 | ( The BBC refuses to say how much it is spending on Artrageous ! . ) |
| 6 | Once you have decided what the extra staffing and other requirements are in respect of the two conferences , you can work out how much it is going to cost to accommodate them . |
| 7 | Apparently it is going outside . |
| 8 | Apparently it 's OEMing somebody 's Mbus machine and are talking about a portable that 's not a laptop . |
| 9 | We put them on and apparently it 's making no difference . |
| 10 | And apparently it 's becoming very , you know , like a major major |
| 11 | ‘ Apparently it 's coming to an end , ’ said Julia , ‘ and the commissioners have found that a great many of the Italians they tried to reward for what they did have refused to take any money at all . |
| 12 | tt , apparently it 's gon na be good over Europe , on , on Saturday |
| 13 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 14 | He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone . |
| 15 | long it 's going to be before it 's all over and we can go home . ’ |
| 16 | Or perhaps it 's belting out Slade 's greatest hits with your best friends and a bottle of wine ? |
| 17 | Perhaps it 's hiding somewhere so it does n't get hoovered up . |
| 18 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 19 | Of course erm it 's perhaps , perhaps it 's looking slightly to the er historical future it it 's er it it was bad news in one sense because erm there came to be a view taken in Europe that wars between the great powers would be short , sharp wars . |
| 20 | Perhaps it 's leaking . ’ |
| 21 | Oh your face is familiar perhaps it 's shopping or something ? |
| 22 | Mm , perhaps it 's gon na be a big one ? |
| 23 | The daftest thing to say , you do n't actually say this to them , you think oh hello , perhaps we can adapt that , perhaps it 's going to lead into something else . |
| 24 | Is it coming up , perhaps it 's pouring out of the top dear . |
| 25 | ‘ There was a time when you could n't make jokes about Germans , but I think perhaps it 's becoming fashionable again . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 27 | The handle of the spade transmits the vibrations of the ferret — perhaps it is working on a rabbit — direct to your ear . |
| 28 | But perhaps it is asking too much to expect some sort of articulated political goal — especially of the young adolescents who are responsible for the bulk of working-class crime . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 30 | And I said oh that 's right , he said and I , I 'd come up and see her the first we 'll either take her out for a drink afterwards , I thought that does n't seemed to mix in one glass , and I going to a pub because she 's , but there you are , and she so 's erm , can I bet you 'll stay a bit , she said oh , I think December is your like it to be , well obviously it 's getting him settled you must n't over , she must off pushed him and then he 's said erm , I , I 've told mum and dad that if they want to go as well , they can go . |