Example sentences of "[v-ing] [subord] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 2 | He put a little fish to swim inside , looking like it 's wriggling free . |
| 3 | The bridge plate should only need replacing if it is split or lifting away from beneath the table ; check for this by looking inside with a torch and a small mirror . |
| 4 | Yet there is a danger of reading too much into petitioning unless it is given a firm context . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Secular employment is as sanctified as preaching if it is done ‘ as unto the Lord ’ . |
| 7 | Any visual task is rendered more difficult and fatiguing if it is undertaken in poor lighting . |
| 8 | Now it is standing at a huge sum , growing rapidly , and it is still not going where it is needed ’ . |
| 9 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 10 | Should you acquire an adult dog from a rescue centre , it may be worth enquiring whether it is marked in this manner to ensure that the record is updated when you take possession of the dog . |
| 11 | I 'm never going to forget what I saw — or stop wondering whether it 's happening again . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah I 'm wondering whether it 's playing to itself , with the television off . |
| 13 | You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oak is not really an ideal timber for external joinery since it can suffer from surface checking and splitting if it is exposed to the sun and the rain . |
| 17 | Small points again , like accuracy of feeding when it is needed , become natural to them because they are constantly working at it . |
| 18 | In the last chapter , I discussed the kinds of things the brain must be doing if it is to generate observed behaviour . |
| 19 | Despite such successes in imaginative shoestring operations , the UN is desperately in need of reform and strengthening if it is to meet the critical tests of the post-Cold War era . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | The board has lodged five complaints with the LEA and is questioning whether it is getting value for money . |
| 22 | You can , of course , invest in a stout muzzle , but this provides no real answer to this vice , since the dog will continue biting if it is given the opportunity . |
| 23 | The concept is that applicants should be given credit for prior learning whether it is certificated or uncertificated providing it is at the right level and relevant to the qualification being sought . |
| 24 | It is as stupid for a government to try to whip and cajole an entrenched profession into changing as it is to try to pull a fed-up donkey along the road by its ears . |
| 25 | Ideally , the cord should be allowed to stop pulsating before it is clipped or cut . |
| 26 | Koraloona is 130 miles west of Sanders Island and is dangerous to shipping because it is encircled by a coral reef at times fifty miles long , marked on all Admiralty charts . |
| 27 | Since documents prepared with either indented or hanging paragraphs tend to be consistently of the one style , it is as easy to set up the format before typing as it is to do it afterwards . |
| 28 | THE ABILITY of the electricity industry to keep the lights burning once it is privatised was thrown into confusion yesterday . |
| 29 | In this case , the physiotherapist gives the sole of the foot gently graded stretching as it is placed to the floor . |