Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb -s] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who do n't know anything about it might assume that it simply involves standing in front of a camera or walking down a catwalk . |
| 2 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 3 | It 's so easy to keep clean that and that it only wants wiping over , you know . |
| 4 | Of course , turning downwind will increase the range and the choice of the fields , and it also makes joining a regular circuit very much easier . |
| 5 | This is obviously a wrong maxim , he points out , if it simply commends doing what one is most inclined to do . |
| 6 | It may mean changing your own procedures , but if it also means changing your bank balance for the better it may be well worth it . |
| 7 | This alternative picture involves denying that there is a coherent materialist alternative to the Cartesian ‘ private theatre ’ view of the mind ; but it also involves placing the attack on the Cartesian picture in a wider context . |
| 8 | The heartbeat does n't match , but it also keeps changing . |
| 9 | In part this means seeing who teams up with whom in what kind of work situation and why , but it also means looking at the facts in quantitative terms . |
| 10 | For many people there is an aura of mystery about dealing on the money markets but it just involves picking up a telephone , ringing two or three numbers , asking the price of something ( the interest or discount rate ) , and buying from the cheapest source . |
| 11 | Mushroom compost is the material from mushroom beds after cropping has finished , by which time the urine content has gone , but it still needs composting if it is to be dug in . |
| 12 | It 's fairly obvious , but it sometimes needs emphasising , and the timing of your committees obviously this means that there can be a delay , in the realization of any er , savings that might arise . |
| 13 | But it deliberately avoids making them : 80% of its manufacturing work is subcontracted , and the company 's president , Takemitsu Takizaki , says he aims to raise that figure to 85% . |
| 14 | Similar in some ways to clairvoyance , but it mainly involves communicating with somebody else without using normal senses . |
| 15 | Building a home is a more demanding business altogether since it necessarily involves assembling the right materials , deciding on a layout and somehow fastening things together . |
| 16 | This is one of the reasons why we are saying to the government that they should consider what our competitor countries do , which is some form of temporary credit management ; some form of temporary credit controls to squeeze off this surge in demand before it really gets going and pushes inflation up again . |