Example sentences of "[prep] it be [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M most of it is just formalizing what we 're doing and formalizing the changes in the establishment |
| 2 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 3 | The original stone-built block still survives , although much of it is rapidly decaying . |
| 4 | Anyway you then look through it with the solution in and you 'll find that if , for example , you started off with it completely dark you 'll find it 's then grey cos the plane of light 's been rotated , now it 's where there was no light getting through now some of it is actually getting through , cos it 's been rotated . |
| 5 | The field is a specialised one and the study of it is still producing refinements of previous discoveries . |
| 6 | I think they had a bit of juggling to do , moving people out of the odd house in rows they demolished , and into the empty spots in ones they 're keeping — like filling decaying teeth-but most of it was just rotting where it stood . |
| 7 | If the oboe band was a viable theatrical ensemble as late as 1688 , then it must have been even more so in the 1660s , when the orchestra as we conceive of it was merely starting to come into being . |
| 8 | I can hear that car like it 's just going past here . |
| 9 | It might seem like it 's all going to fall apart at any minute , but that 's the key to it — it 's totally wrong to call them shambolic ; you have to be right on top of things to sound this loose . |
| 10 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 11 | Marketing is by its nature an expansionist , aggressive activity and those concerned with it are constantly seeking to improve their performance by increasing the scale and selectivity of their approaches . |
| 12 | Provided , therefore , that the House is careful to avoid mention of any determination of whether or not a particular privilege exists , and to confine itself to statements which are consistent with it 's merely having decided that a breach has occurred , it can make its will prevail ( Case of the Sheriff of Middlesex ( 1840 ) 11 A & E 273 ) . |
| 13 | Same over it 's just coming across the country is n't it ? |
| 14 | though outside it 's still raining , |
| 15 | Outside it was still raining . |
| 16 | Outside it was still raining . |
| 17 | I think the nearest thing to it is probably towing a caravan er a pyramid . |
| 18 | In my opinion , a document should be held to be void ( as opposed to voidable ) only when the element of consent to it is totally lacking , that is , more concretely , when the transaction which the document purports to effect is essentially different in substance or in kind from the transaction intended . |
| 19 | Orem , Utah-based WordPerfect Corp says its WordPerfect 6.0 for MS-DOS will be released on June 28 and that customer demand for it is already reaching record levels : the latest beta version will include drag-and-drop text , scrolling Button Bars and separate set-up options for the text mode and graphics mode ; the thing will be $500 . |
| 20 | ‘ If I painted the sky , ’ she had said one day , ‘ I could go through life paintin' nothin' else for it 's always changin' . |
| 21 | So everyone thinks that being the is being one that 's really gon na change the world , yeah and I think that the pattern he 's talking about it 's just resurfacing and resurfacing and resurfacing . |
| 22 | As Marianne , a programmer , said ‘ My only reason for doing this at home is to be with the children , and the worst thing about it is never getting away from the children . ’ |