Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bonus may be given because the employee concerned has no pension rights and does not have an enhanced salary already reflecting this or it may just be a reward for satisfactory completion of the contract . |
| 2 | I do n't I do n't I do n't I do n't think I do n't think anybody is denying that but it 's clearly not worked . |
| 3 | When I told him that I would also like to buy a smaller Popova , he objected , ‘ No , I 'm keeping this because it 's small and it can always be hung anywhere , but these big ones … where can they go ? ’ |
| 4 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 5 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 6 | In other words British Gas may end up paying more than it would if more help was offered at tender stage . |
| 7 | He explained payments in eight monthly instalments may give the impression that tenants were paying more but it covered the full year . |
| 8 | Jenny Bianco , social services chairwoman , rejected the accusation : ‘ If you get a good service while paying less than it is a much better deal and more realistic than cutting services to save money . ’ |
| 9 | Over the next four and a half years Burton , like a young shark eating all before it , devoured the sport , the small-town adventure life , the clubs and choirs and outings available . |
| 10 | Transformed by cunning makeup and a virtuoso display of technical and emotional acting skill , her portrait of a frail but flinty island woman achieved its power by suggesting more than it said . |
| 11 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 12 | BT can afford to take a smaller profit , of course , but it is only doing that because it has been shamed into doing so by its customers . |
| 13 | So he had to wear his and he do n't like doing that because it gets stuck in the locker . |
| 14 | On the other hand I think we have to take seriously what Mao is , is saying that and it may conflict with that , that other view of the countryside an an and we , I think we do have to take this evidence into account , I think it 's more important to accept what Mao is saying . |
| 15 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 16 | Er I should say that I 'm only saying this because it 's written in front of me , some churches apparently in York are putting on alternative festivities er I do n't think they 're trying very hard because I have n't heard of any and I certainly do n't move around the place , hear of any . |
| 17 | I would n't be doing this if it had n't happened . |
| 18 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 19 | We hate doing this because it could be handy information in the event the other party ever accuses us of a transgression . |
| 20 | ‘ My dear Juliet , how many more times do I have to tell you I 'm doing this because it interests me ? |
| 21 | It is doing all that it can to ensure that skilled people will be available to meet the demands that will undoubtedly be made on the construction industry as the economy recovers from recession . |
| 22 | The fact that there is a surplus means that the public sector is spending less than it receives in taxes , etc . |
| 23 | She encapsulates the new commonsense : the housewife managing the nation in a way familiar to the ordinary household ( not spending more than it is earning ) and bringing home to her striking trade unionised husband the ‘ harsh realities and consequences of living without a weekly wage ’ . |
| 24 | It is evident that , by comparison with an unconditional grant , it is on a lower level of welfare ( shown by indifference curve I 1 ) as a result of spending more than it would otherwise choose to spend on good X. |
| 25 | If it is likely that the Purchaser has to inject money into the business it could end up losing more than it paid if there is a total disaster and the Vendor 's liability is limited in this way . |
| 26 | The particular motivation for some fairly panicky use of the ‘ brake ’ was a concern with Britain 's tendency to run into balance of payments problems , importing more than it was exporting . |
| 27 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 28 | The title ‘ Futility ’ has a double meaning : at first , the futility of the attempts to rouse the soldier and in the latter half , the futility of all the complexity of the earth and the effort put into achieving this when it is just destroyed . |
| 29 | While it is possible that the missionary who baptized in the River Glen was the Briton , Rhun , and that Bede was mistaken when he located Paulinus at Yeavering , the statement about Rhun in the Historia Brittonum , inserted as it is in a somewhat garbled account seemingly extrapolated from the Ecclesiastical History , can not be regarded as undoubtedly signifying this and it is uncertain what weight can be attached to it . |
| 30 | ‘ Their original intentions were to lessen the humiliation experienced by the victim in a rape trial and to send a symbolic liberating and educational message to the rest of society , advising all that it was no longer acceptable to assault sexually ( or batter , or ultimately to subjugate ) women . ’ |