Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But to cover up anywhere a bit ugly , bare looking it 's very handy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not only is wealth difficult to measure , defining it is also problematic . |
| 10 | I find that when women start smoking it 's normally in bike sheds , behind the back of the school , it 's a communal thing . |
| 11 | At the time of writing it is too early to determine whether the IEBPC 's Frankfurt seminars , presentations and cocktail parties will lead to a significant international force stimulating a vigorous wave of Data Discman publishing . |
| 12 | m , well as I say , once I 'm going it 's just getting going |
| 13 | Yet , by the time Sunday racing becomes a reality , the Jockey Club , though by no means a thing of the past , will undoubtedly be different from the unchallenged ruler of British racing it is today . |
| 14 | ‘ Though the market is growing it is also becoming more competitive . |
| 15 | However , describing it is as far as the organisation has got for the moment , though OSF says members are screaming for a bridge that spans all GUI environments . |
| 16 | waiting it 's just getting on your nerves now , I was quite calm and relaxed |
| 17 | When the principal exemplars of this class are dramatically eliminated the message is clear : middlemanship destroys from within , and the act of passing something on without truly changing or improving it is psychologically nullifying . |
| 18 | All members of HM Forces stationed overseas at a non-BFPO address may receive mail posted in UK at concessionary rates of postage providing it is clearly addressed to a military type address or diplomatic post . |
| 19 | A homogeneously broadened system saturates uniformly in frequency , so that the oscillation frequency , which clearly has maximum gain at threshold , retains its primacy as the laser saturates , preventing other frequencies from reaching threshold ( providing it is spatially uniform : in actual lasers higher-order transverse and adjacent longitudinal modes appear because they have different spatial structures from the dominant mode ) . |
| 20 | Monetary policy , they argue , providing it is carefully designed and executed , can control the money supply . |
| 21 | However , both these situations do not prevent the development of a euro-market in the currency concerned , providing it is fully convertible for non-residents of those countries and is deposited in a bank outside of their national boundaries . |
| 22 | The minute you have written a piece of music ( providing it is genuinely original ) you create a copyright . |
| 23 | The South Eastern Education Board , which was holding it 's monthly meeting this afternoon , has also voiced concern about the governors issue . |
| 24 | And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer . |
| 25 | When cultural and economic identity are lacking it is all too easy for a capitalist system to ‘ sell ’ culture issues and values quite aggressively . |
| 26 | Once a routine becomes boring it is soon forgotten and its benefits are lost . |
| 27 | Creating the coloured image on the screen is the easy part , printing it is quite another . |
| 28 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 29 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 30 | Strictly speaking it is only these transformations , applied in the potential space , that should be referred to as Ehlers transformations ( Ehlers , 1957 ) . |