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

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1 Gray said : ‘ There 's no denying that it 's going to be a tough fight now .
2 Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the COSE people think DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it 's becoming a COSE too .
3 Yet software house Microsoft recently caused quite a stir in computer circles by announcing that it is using real people , working for real companies , to test its software products .
4 Digital Equipment Corp also has a copy of the paper , and some of the Common Open Software Environment people think that DEC is now only a photo opportunity away from announcing that it is becoming a member too .
5 The phatic function : opening the channel or checking that it is working , either for social reasons ( ‘ Hello' , ‘ Lovely weather ’ , ‘ Do you come here often ? ’ ) , or for practical ones ( ‘ Can you hear me ? ’ ,
6 Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 .
7 At least that 's what it 's telling the PC press , with IBM retorting that it 's trying to spook customers .
8 Even in the prenatal period the fetus is communicating that it is growing in size ; and in the later months of pregnancy that it is capable of movement .
9 As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm .
10 He put a little fish to swim inside , looking like it 's wriggling free .
11 My Warwick is currently being serviced by a luthier in Holbury who tells me that the truss rod needs replacing because it is beginning to shear .
12 I 'm never going to forget what I saw — or stop wondering whether it 's happening again . ’
13 Yeah I 'm wondering whether it 's playing to itself , with the television off .
14 You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things .
15 In fact , we 're wondering whether it 's going to be possible to keep it up but the trouble is it 's in an area where in the last ooh , over over recent years forty chapels have closed !
16 Perhaps the sentence ‘ Is it raining ? ’ expresses the state of wondering whether it is raining , and the sentence ‘ Shut the window , please ’ expresses the state of wishing the hearer to shut the window .
17 I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay .
18 Demonstrating that it is beginning to get the hang of the personal computer mass market , IBM Corp 's Personal Computer Co yesterday announced three new 80486-based lines in its PS/ValuePoint family , in 40 different configurations — and the difference between the three models is not the processor — anything from a 25MHz 80486SX to a 66MHz 80486DX2 , but the size of the box .
19 The Reindeer is to push the car park back , half way across the grass , er which is er am I correct in saying that it 's putting it back where it was ?
20 A common theme in the reaction against it has been a demand for the ‘ return to justice ’ : retributive justice is seen as having the virtue of acknowledging that it is punishing ‘ responsible ’ people , which in turn requires the safeguards of individual rights and public accountability of the ‘ due process of law ’ , and the limitations on intervention in people 's lives provided by the principle of retributive proportionality .
21 But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles .
22 ‘ I am in favour of televising because it is going down well with my constituents … the world is paying attention ’ , said Mr David Nicholson , MP for Taunton .
23 The board has lodged five complaints with the LEA and is questioning whether it is getting value for money .
24 BOLA keeps insisting that it is looking after the interest of all punters by examining the details of this affair and issuing the ‘ No pay ’ edict .
25 it straight off the line knowing that it 's coming in .
26 See what he 's doing with his fur , look scratching and it 's going off and , he knocks his fur off and then it falls , falls out look at him the
27 B. Life in Britain is changing and it is changing more and more quickly .
28 I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ?
29 you make an arrangement to have a game of tennis but the weather , you know i it 's snowing or it 's raining so a lot of them get rained off which is er quite sad .
30 At this stage knitters often blame the machine , thinking that it is knitting erratically and incorrectly , when in fact its their fault .
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