Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 2 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 3 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 4 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 5 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 6 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 7 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 8 | And they 'll check that out for you and we 'll see what 's happening but it 's just in case there 's any arthritis or anything like that that 's |
| 9 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 10 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 11 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 12 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |
| 13 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 14 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 15 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 16 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 17 | I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting . |
| 18 | People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that . |
| 19 | I stirred the potato powder into the liquid and would have begun eating but it was too hot . |
| 20 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 21 | The clouds had thinned , the sun was shining and it was almost warm enough to create the illusion of summer . |
| 22 | I know , look crying and it 's still sore today . |
| 23 | and erm but the plane , the er boat was slow in coming and it was so hard to get a ship back then |
| 24 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 25 | It is running but it 's not showing us anything |
| 26 | This is extremely time consuming and it is not always easy to tell whether the grains are what you think if they are not well-preserved . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The idea of devoting one 's career to helping the other fellow on his way , rejoicing , may be ennobling but it is sometimes more evident in theory than in practice . |
| 29 | If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts . |
| 30 | I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps |