Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compelling analysis of this anecdote is then shown to have important implications for the reading of some familiar literary text , revealing that it too shares in the cultural presumptions critically uncovered in the anecdote . |
| 2 | However , serious doubt has been cast on the methodology used to collect this data on extra costs , suggesting that it grossly underestimates the true costs . |
| 3 | Unsurprising , perhaps , but in a country that for 40 years has acted like a poodle it is striking to find a Japanese suggesting that it now has the strength of a rottweiler . |
| 4 | This is called plussing and it slightly alters the potency of the remedy in the glass which helps to maintain its effectiveness . |
| 5 | Well well with most word processors , you do n't use return , you just keep typing and it automatically says well I wo n't fit this . |
| 6 | For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal . |
| 7 | Fabia counteracted any feeling of wretchedness at that last guilty thought by deciding that it really was n't good enough that Vendelin Gajdusek had gone away when he knew full well that someone was travelling especially from England to see him . |
| 8 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 9 | I said well we will be going and it finally finished at nine o'clock , erm , the the topics under discussion are all really relevant |
| 10 | He 's obviously doing it to keep a rhythm going and it certainly seems to work . |
| 11 | Umpteen four-bedroomed houses later , we were wondering if it really was the right thing to do : every time we found just the right place , the surveyor 's report showed movement of the north wall , or some other equally expensive-to-repair problem . |
| 12 | I asked , wondering if it really was or if his memory had become glamorized . |
| 13 | Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ I do n't know which constituency Mr Fallon has been canvassing but it certainly is n't Darlington . |
| 14 | ‘ The UK is a logical next step for Alco Office Products and Erskine House is an ideal fit considering that it also has a significant presence in the US market and complementary interests in Germany , ’ Alco chairman and chief executive Ray Mundt commented . |
| 15 | As he lay on the bed , he found himself wishing that it really was his grave . |
| 16 | There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice . |
| 17 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 18 | From saying that a thing ought to belong to a man , that it ought to be used for his benefit , you come to saying that it actually is his , ‘ in equity ’ or ‘ in conscience ’ . |
| 19 | Nelson Mandela 's wife , Winnie angered the government by saying that it merely meant contemporary end to armed action and that the A N C reserved the right to reactivate its armed guerrillas at any time . |
| 20 | One might even argue that the monist , if he followed the logic of his position , would not be able to discuss language at all : if meaning is inseparable from form , one can not discuss meaning except by repeating the very words in which it is expressed , and one can not discuss form except by saying that it appropriately expresses its own meaning . |
| 21 | The balance has tipped from viewing the problem entirely in terms of liability and expense to acknowledging that it also offers an opportunity … |
| 22 | and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be |
| 23 | You do n't know what your talking about she said , what baby ? we have n't a baby , my mother wo n't be coming because it so far I tell you . |
| 24 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
| 25 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 26 | It can be very time consuming and it often depends on unstructured verbal communication because of this . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought someone was joking but it really was him . |
| 28 | In addition it is clear that the route by which information becomes public knowledge may be crucial to determining whether it thereby loses the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 29 | Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority . |
| 30 | The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well . |