Example sentences of "[conj] it is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparison is also used to explain a current phenomenon by comparing the past experience of the group where it is occurring with that of a group where it is not occurring . |
| 2 | WHO WILL guard the guardians in the Philippines , where it is rapidly becoming clear that President Aquino does not command her own army ? |
| 3 | Note the pp of the horn against the p of clarinet and bassoons in the last two bars , where it is merely completing their harmony . |
| 4 | That purchase added around 3 percentage points to its share of the liquid milk market , taking it to 16 per cent , where it is now snapping at the heels of the second-largest operator , Dairy Crest , the marketing subsidiary of the MMB , which claims a market share of around 17 per cent . |
| 5 | It is not necessary for the building society to be joined as a party to a registered land transfer where it is only receiving the benefit of a covenant to observe and perform the terms of the mortgage by the wife ( and not releasing the husband ) because it can enforce the covenant without being a party ( Chelsea and Walham Green Building Society v Armstrong [ 1951 ] Ch 853 ) . |
| 6 | But teasing should n't contain too much truth or it is n't teasing any more , it 's … it 's … ’ |
| 7 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 8 | I 'm still staring at the branch ; it 's like my brain 's screaming at me inside my own head and I do n't know what else it is that 's listening , except it is n't listening ; my brain 's screaming Run ! |
| 9 | It is my contention that a similar process is occurring for at least a significant part of the people of Tyneside today , although it is not affecting everyone in the same way and involves a complex process of what may be more apparent than real social differentiation . |
| 10 | The laboratory has no money to pick up Charles Brown 's project , should AIDS arrive here with a vengeance , although it is currently collaborating with Speywood to adapt its conventional purification technology to human blood . |
| 11 | In Europe , performance in France and Spain remains unsatisfactory , although it is now showing the first signs of improvement . |
| 12 | The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again . |
| 13 | In Spain , Housman Overseas is no longer active in the Costa del Sol , although it is still dealing with the Costa Blanca . |
| 14 | An initial objection which he poses is , interestingly , that it is not fitting that a woman should represent a father . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , its point about the evidence for God 's goodness — that it is not compelling and that , indeed , there may be moments when it appears that the facts of life may not be reconciled with a good Creator at all — might also be applied to the evidence for God 's existence . |
| 16 | They are reasons for holding that it is not binding . |
| 17 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 18 | If there 's one thing that is clear about desktop publishing it is that it is NOT publishing , a fact that often seems to escape those who sell it . |
| 19 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 20 | Thus , the clear [ l ] in initial pre-vocalic position is a broad regional marker , and we conclude from this relative invariance that it is not undergoing change . |
| 21 | differentiate its broad product range in some way so that it is not competing directly with lower-cost products , or |
| 22 | Though about 95% of orders are placed without human intervention , people can , of course , monitor and override any of the system 's decisions — eg , to ensure that it is not ordering $2m missiles because of a statistical fluke . |
| 23 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 24 | The government consultation paper insists that it is not gunning specifically for county or for district councils . |
| 25 | But more than one such mention , or a too heavily insisted on mention , especially when it is plain that it is not contributing to the whole , simply draws attention to the fact that you are producing fiction . |
| 26 | Finally , if an animal is coping with extremely adverse conditions by self-narcotisation , I would say that its welfare is poor but the effect of the narcotic may mean that it is not suffering . |
| 27 | In practice , it is standard for agreements to seek to exclude any liability for pre-contractual representations by including entire agreement provisions under which the acquirer confirms that it is not relying on any representations , etc. other than those included in the agreement . |
| 28 | For this reason it is normal for the vendor to define precisely which documents comprise the sale agreement and to ensure the purchaser acknowledges that it is not relying on any statements of fact unless contained in these documents . |
| 29 | DRAMATIC losses by Barclays Bank and the announcement by the Bundesbank , the German central bank , that it is not cutting interest rates , shook London stock market confidence yesterday . |
| 30 | They simply share the belief that it is not going to be possible to explain behaviour adequately if mental processes are identified with the contents of conscious awareness . |