Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The compelling analysis of this anecdote is then shown to have important implications for the reading of some familiar literary text , revealing that it too shares in the cultural presumptions critically uncovered in the anecdote .
2 However , serious doubt has been cast on the methodology used to collect this data on extra costs , suggesting that it grossly underestimates the true costs .
3 Unsurprising , perhaps , but in a country that for 40 years has acted like a poodle it is striking to find a Japanese suggesting that it now has the strength of a rottweiler .
4 This is called plussing and it slightly alters the potency of the remedy in the glass which helps to maintain its effectiveness .
5 Well well with most word processors , you do n't use return , you just keep typing and it automatically says well I wo n't fit this .
6 For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal .
7 On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike .
8 I said well we will be going and it finally finished at nine o'clock , erm , the the topics under discussion are all really relevant
9 He 's obviously doing it to keep a rhythm going and it certainly seems to work .
10 ‘ The UK is a logical next step for Alco Office Products and Erskine House is an ideal fit considering that it also has a significant presence in the US market and complementary interests in Germany , ’ Alco chairman and chief executive Ray Mundt commented .
11 There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice .
12 Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions .
13 Nelson Mandela 's wife , Winnie angered the government by saying that it merely meant contemporary end to armed action and that the A N C reserved the right to reactivate its armed guerrillas at any time .
14 One might even argue that the monist , if he followed the logic of his position , would not be able to discuss language at all : if meaning is inseparable from form , one can not discuss meaning except by repeating the very words in which it is expressed , and one can not discuss form except by saying that it appropriately expresses its own meaning .
15 The balance has tipped from viewing the problem entirely in terms of liability and expense to acknowledging that it also offers an opportunity …
16 and that has been a long time coming but it now appears to be
17 Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression .
18 It can be very time consuming and it often depends on unstructured verbal communication because of this .
19 In addition it is clear that the route by which information becomes public knowledge may be crucial to determining whether it thereby loses the necessary quality of confidence .
20 Such planning , involving as it always does public action — provision of good educational opportunity , good public housing and health care , competent attention to drug addiction , family counselling , adequate welfare payments — is systemically resisted by the contented electoral majority .
21 The rising toll of unemployment was another alarming problem , involving as it naturally did the families and children of the unemployed man or woman as well .
22 When the owner shouts at the cat , instead of simply stopping as it usually does , the cat will massively over-react with one of its mad-panic rushes .
23 It has been objected against this kind of reasoning that it really misses the point the sceptic is trying to make .
24 It must be stressed that this is only a possibility ( and that the explanation has been very much simplified ) , but more and more researches are showing that it probably approximates to the truth .
25 Hewlett-Packard Co has extended its HP 9000 Series 1200 line of fault-tolerant Unix systems sourced from Sequoia Systems Inc downwards with the launch of the entry-level HP 9000 Model 1210 , claiming that it substantially outperforms fault-tolerant offerings from Tandem Computers Inc , Stratus Computer Inc and Digital Equipment Corp by as much as 100% in transaction processing work .
26 AY has admitted negligence in relation to the stock over-statement , provided that WG can prove the fraud took place , but the firm is claiming that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar as its auditor , and not to Walker Greenbank , even though it audited the group accounts .
27 Max Klein 's wife , Dora , however , had recently begun to tolerate this prohibition with definite , if unexpressed , ill-grace , finding that it greatly restricted her opportunity of parading before the community Max 's newly acquired Ford motor-car .
28 Clearly , being separated from these troubling experiences may well be a benefit , but Giddens is arguing that it also leaves the routines of everyday life relatively empty .
29 The division of classes , however , goes on increasing and it finally undermines the society in which it had arisen .
30 Marshall knew Wickham would be ruefully amused by that ‘ yet ’ , carrying as it inevitably did an accusation of tardiness .
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