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 | somewhere in Mexico , the central part of it where it 's still falling to bits and |
| 7 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 8 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 9 | But teasing should n't contain too much truth or it is n't teasing any more , it 's … it 's … ’ |
| 10 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 11 | ‘ Except it 's not going to be me . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In Europe , performance in France and Spain remains unsatisfactory , although it is now showing the first signs of improvement . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In Spain , Housman Overseas is no longer active in the Costa del Sol , although it is still dealing with the Costa Blanca . |
| 18 | The energy crisis which we 're in at the moment , and which will , although it 's temporarily abating if we judge the prices on the oil market , will not go away , is one of the most important areas in which chemistry can contribute . |
| 19 | World travel market attended , the club promotion , although it 's still running , has n't been very successful , over four hundred bed nights into the campaign , as a result of that short running promotion . |
| 20 | ‘ At least I can watch the telly as I train — although it 's hard breaking the racing routine of having breakfast at lunchtime and your main meal at tea time . ’ |
| 21 | One might say that it claims that it 's presently raining is a real state of affairs . |
| 22 | You ca n't say that it 's not helping bring people to the Sugar shows but after one show I hope they 'll forget about everything else . |
| 23 | if you find that it 's not moving |
| 24 | By this time next month we 're just about at the solstice we 're find that it 's not getting light until about seven o'clock in the morning and it 's getting dark again by about half past three . |
| 25 | I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals . |
| 26 | Nowhere else will be able to afford to do it , so let's not pretend that it 's not gon na affect those people outside . |
| 27 | That 's what I 'm doing , except that it 's not gon na look like that any more |
| 28 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 29 | I 'm determined that it 's not going to happen to me , but if people were to stop buying my work I would continue painting , so it would n't make that much difference . |
| 30 | One would like to think that it 's not going to happen here . |