Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what strikes one about their situation and the way they are tackling it is how vary narrowly they are ahead . |
| 2 | Peter : Yes he has indeed he delivered , he did away with the autocue , he leaned forward , he did n't want a barrier between himself and his adoring party faithful they were adoring it was rather like the last night at the Prom , I can tell you . |
| 3 | The FT-SE failed to hold its gains yesterday but shortly after opening it was only six points away from last September 's previous record closing level . |
| 4 | WHEN Susan Allen decided she had had enough of life at the age of 25 her method of ending it was all too easy . |
| 5 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 6 | Because once you sit inside , you 're quite right , you 're driving it are n't you . |
| 7 | Similarly for ‘ punchball ’ , the predominant way of signing it was threefold : shape ( ball on a stick ) , movement ( springs to and fro on a pivot ) and how a person interacts with it ( hands punching alternately ) ; these three are salient features . |
| 8 | a car seat a week ago , it was an absolute , I could not stop laughing it was so funny ! |
| 9 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 10 | And then today when I was passing it was just munching away in the corner , you know . |
| 11 | When a therapist becomes aware that such a situation is developing it is most important that he discusses this with the patient and sets very clear limits on the relationship . |
| 12 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 13 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 14 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 15 | I thought it might be — that 's why I went back to Hong Kong , so I would n't be tempted to see you and start believing it was n't . |
| 16 | A court that tries to decide as Parliament would have wished is more likely to be right than a court that follows the words believing it was not what Parliament intended . |
| 17 | Arguments over the validity of the notice and justification of the motives of the partners serving it are better left to an appropriate tribunal ( judge , arbitrator or mediator ) than carried on in acrimonious correspondence . |
| 18 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 19 | After a period of activity and shouting it is surprisingly easy to introduce a game like ‘ dead lions ’ ( p.39 ) and have all the children being as quiet as they can be . |
| 20 | What practical steps are we taking to discover how the Church appears from the outsider 's perspective and how its message is being interpreted ; remembering it 's not what we say but what they hear which really counts ? |
| 21 | I 'm looking it 's not one job for one person in one company today . |
| 22 | But to cover up anywhere a bit ugly , bare looking it 's very handy . |
| 23 | He 's pretending it 's not there . |
| 24 | Mm , he 's laying there pretending it 's not him , look ! |
| 25 | By avoiding this situation and pretending it 's not happening means that we can actually be risking the lives of one our friends , one of our family . |
| 26 | ‘ Stop pretending it is n't what you want , ’ he breathed as his lips touched hers . |
| 27 | I think any feminist movement in Britain should take on board the fact that Ireland is a colony and the fact that there is a lot of denial that goes on , people pretending it is n't happening , and saying there 's nothing that can be done . |
| 28 | In its undigested state , this voluminous competitor information , 90 per cent of which is publicly available , may be vaguely interesting and occasionally intriguing , but however glittering it is essentially an unusable and potentially dangerous resource . |
| 29 | Not only is wealth difficult to measure , defining it is also problematic . |
| 30 | At the April 8 meeting it was also agreed that France , the UK and Belgium ( currently a non-permanent UN Security Council member ) would press for the UN to establish a register of all arms sales . |