Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dioxin was indeed found at one Rhone-Poulenc dump in France , its manager nervously explaining that it was good French dioxin , and not a nasty Italian import . |
| 2 | As to the price of the ‘ Samson ’ , Goldner will not specify , only saying that it is ‘ far , far less than $10 million — I could have bought that , plus another important picture for that amount ’ . |
| 3 | Our alternative is straightforward , and meets this objection , and we are not only asking that it be used in all cases , only those where the result would otherwise be patently unjust . |
| 4 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 5 | I mean the one fear surely is that this is n't something which is happening on a , I was going to say a small local area , that 's perhaps exaggerating but it is in a at the moment in a confined locality , we know where it is , it 's not actually here and |
| 6 | Therefore if you 've got a relationship with somebody and all you seem to constantly to be doing is constantly arguing and it 's either I win or you win you 're never gon na get out of that unless other time . |
| 7 | but go for the six o'clock showing cos it 's two pound ten pence . |
| 8 | This one followed him trustingly , its interest only evaporating when it was turned away from the bar we entered . |
| 9 | HAMMERSMITH and Fulham Council in west London continued to take out options on the London money market even after the intervention of the district auditor , wrongly thinking that it was reducing its holdings , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 10 | Charles stressed that Aimee 's hair would look especially striking if it was darkened and enriched to give the illusion of body . |
| 11 | Before 1926 , when a person died wholly or partly intestate , the distribution of his property differed widely according as it was real or personal estate . |
| 12 | This fellow went up to a chap ( you could not tell who were NCOs or who were officers ) who was just resting because it was very hard work and we were working under pressure , and said sharply : " What is the trouble with you , have you run out of sandbags ? " |
| 13 | I was just wondering whether it 's something , you know , you buy a |
| 14 | I 'm just wondering whether it 's E D or E S , to fight like this . |
| 15 | I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it . |
| 16 | They seem as what women we are getting today er just want social er and yet my own particular guild , I 'm just wondering if it 's the secretaries that we 're , we 're jus it 's the good secretary we need of course really because , er this sounds really awful of me , it sounds a bit big-headed does n't it you know we would , we would say . |
| 17 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 18 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 19 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 20 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 21 | And that is als , I 'm just saying that it 's a very dangerous |
| 22 | He was just debating whether it was a shade pompous to refer to himself as ‘ I rather than ‘ me ’ when young Harbour , the juvenile lead , tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 23 | I was just thinking if it was on a page you could have got that |
| 24 | There is a risk that what is intended to be an aid only during training can become an undesirable crutch in that performance comes to depend on it but this is rare and can be avoided by using a suitable time delay , thus ensuring that it is really learning and not action feedback . |
| 25 | As he was bending down to pick the post up off the mat he felt a cold hand on his exposed backside — little suspecting that it was the family dog giving him a friendly greeting . |
| 26 | Quickly realising that it was an impossibility to tackle the rescue as he had hoped , he decided to fasten the makeshift leash to Daisy 's collar . |
| 27 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 28 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 29 | Let us hope they 're still dancing when it is time for the Fourth Round draw . |
| 30 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |