Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Loch Hourn , which in configuration it resembles closely , Loch Nevis is an inlet of the Sound of Sleat , initially wide but becoming narrow as it thrusts through the hills . |
| 2 | Allison would respond by becoming moody and it soured many of the sessions . |
| 3 | After five minutes or so you will begin to see that your back is becoming flatter as it comes more in contact with the floor . |
| 4 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 5 | Everything looks so much smaller from up here looking down than it does down below looking up . |
| 6 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 7 | Section 119 provides that a company if so authorised by its articles may : ( a ) make arrangements on an issue of shares for a difference between shareholders in the amounts or times of payments of calls ; ( b ) accept the whole or part of the amount remaining unpaid although it has not been called up ; or ( c ) pay a dividend in proportion to the amount paid up on each share where a larger amount is paid up on some shares than on others . |
| 8 | Gironella 's solution was entirely individual : to focus on the art of the European past , looming large as it did in Latin American consciousness regardless of how often it had been declared dead and buried by Europeans . |
| 9 | The physical aspect is going great until it peaks and falls off . |
| 10 | He explained payments in eight monthly instalments may give the impression that tenants were paying more but it covered the full year . |
| 11 | Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains . |
| 12 | The barricades at the front had to be removed to stop everyone getting crushed and it brought back memories of the heady days of punk . |
| 13 | The mountain rescue organisation is getting bigger and it needs to be sustained — there has been a very dramatic escalation in the number of incidents on the hill in the last ten years . |
| 14 | main problem at the moment is that they want one person to deal , cos at the moment we 've got us dealing with national account and we 've got dealing with the regional account managers and sales execs dealing with the individual branches and I think things are getting lost as it goes from one to the other |
| 15 | By the Thursday night , she was getting tired and it did n't look as if the try-out week was going to be a success . |
| 16 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 17 | Everyone gets very wet but it is worth while getting soaked if it saves even one glider from serious damage . |
| 18 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 19 | Transformed by cunning makeup and a virtuoso display of technical and emotional acting skill , her portrait of a frail but flinty island woman achieved its power by suggesting more than it said . |
| 20 | I 've never been used to doing that and it makes such a lot of difference when you actually speak to the people . |
| 21 | So he had to wear his and he do n't like doing that because it gets stuck in the locker . |
| 22 | BT can afford to take a smaller profit , of course , but it is only doing that because it has been shamed into doing so by its customers . |
| 23 | Er I should say that I 'm only saying this because it 's written in front of me , some churches apparently in York are putting on alternative festivities er I do n't think they 're trying very hard because I have n't heard of any and I certainly do n't move around the place , hear of any . |
| 24 | I would n't be doing this if it had n't happened . |
| 25 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 26 | ‘ My dear Juliet , how many more times do I have to tell you I 'm doing this because it interests me ? |
| 27 | However , with social feeling about child sexuality running high as it does at present , we may be well advised to keep quiet about it in public ; while , if we ourselves feel guilt as to our own emotions in any such case , a knowledgeable and understanding senior or colleague may be able to help us — otherwise we would be well-advised to hand the case on to someone else . |
| 28 | Lightning forked across the black belly of the clouds , and the rock that had moved as I was negotiating the bend had disappeared into the gorge below , the torrent running smooth as it lipped the broken edge of the old roadway . |
| 29 | The fact that there is a surplus means that the public sector is spending less than it receives in taxes , etc . |
| 30 | If it is likely that the Purchaser has to inject money into the business it could end up losing more than it paid if there is a total disaster and the Vendor 's liability is limited in this way . |