Example sentences of "[adv] it be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it was taking every atom of her will-power to stop that hand from doing what it longed to do — namely rise up and tangle with the silky black hair that curled so invitingly round Guido 's left ear . |
| 2 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Government-funded Housing Corporation will reveal how much it is giving about 70 housing associations in the region . |
| 7 | ( The BBC refuses to say how much it is spending on Artrageous ! . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 10 | I 'd have been a lot more worried if I 'd known how much it was going to be … |
| 11 | Apparently it is going outside . |
| 12 | Apparently it 's OEMing somebody 's Mbus machine and are talking about a portable that 's not a laptop . |
| 13 | We put them on and apparently it 's making no difference . |
| 14 | And apparently it 's becoming very , you know , like a major major |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | tt , apparently it 's gon na be good over Europe , on , on Saturday |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone . |
| 19 | Basically it was receiving telephone calls from the public erm and using that information to put on a computer to send officers to incidents various incidents . |
| 20 | long it 's going to be before it 's all over and we can go home . ’ |
| 21 | Or perhaps it 's belting out Slade 's greatest hits with your best friends and a bottle of wine ? |
| 22 | Perhaps it 's hiding somewhere so it does n't get hoovered up . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Perhaps it 's leaking . ’ |
| 26 | Oh your face is familiar perhaps it 's shopping or something ? |
| 27 | Mm , perhaps it 's gon na be a big one ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Is it coming up , perhaps it 's pouring out of the top dear . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a time when you could n't make jokes about Germans , but I think perhaps it 's becoming fashionable again . ’ |