Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Mumford says you need climbing skills and it 's a challenge that takes them into a new realm … he says they are praying for dry weather … but it gets very cold … drops to minus twenty at night |
| 2 | I just ca n't believe you 're walking coats and it 's snowing . |
| 3 | There are dozens of them , some with very good outdoors and walking sections and it 's an unusually restrained visitor who leaves without a few extra pounds in the backpack . |
| 4 | ‘ The more I 'm into music and the more I 'm into guitar playing , I realise it is n't about how great a guitar player you are ; it 's about writing songs and it 's about fitting guitar and voice together . |
| 5 | Erm , it 's quite frankly about abusing women and it 's often the case that in the eighteenth century one 's sexuality was considered to begin much earlier than we do now . |
| 6 | In this and other ant-inhabited species of Piper in Costa Rica , the ants remove encroaching climbers and it is argued that the plants absorb nutrients from the decaying nest material of the ants . |
| 7 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 8 | What 's more , with so much emphasis placed upon cultivating a creative youth — schools and parents actively promoting music , local radio and TV picking up regional talent , the reasonable cost of good equipment and the ease with which quality demos and records can be made , plus the all-round encouragement young people receive in all recreational pursuits these days — means it was almost certainly harder to break out in those starchy , stifling times than it is now . |
| 9 | The WaterAid committee tends to support projects in traditionally-English speaking areas as it is likely to have more effect where it can be better understood . |
| 10 | ‘ Bad dream , that 's all , ’ get it now and then , dream there 's this big black bag full of horrible squirming things and it 's tied to my heels . |
| 11 | The Evangelical Alliance is canny in hoping it.can win similar victories by persuading publishers that it is in their commercial interest to avoid offending decent consumers . |
| 12 | Place high up against open sky and moving clouds and it is something else again . |
| 13 | It just means that he 's — a lot of his time is taken up doing stats and it 's if he 's doing that he 's not doing something else . |
| 14 | Do n't you like doing games when it 's alright weather ? |
| 15 | We 're doing refreshments and it 's twenty pence to come in . |
| 16 | Complaints often from cold , damp , penetrating winds and it is principally of use in colds and coughs . |
| 17 | In plate interiors horizontal plate movements play a less direct role in creating landforms and it is the processes which generate the broad warping and vertical movements of the crust , that is , the mechanisms of epeirogeny , that are of most concern . |
| 18 | Moreover , one recent major text ( Kaplan and Atkinson , 1989 ) deletes learning curves because it is misleading to extrapolate cost reductions based literally on experience alone . |
| 19 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 20 | The court is not , or certainly should not be , in the habit of making orders unless it is prepared to enforce them . |
| 21 | I mean , when you get to a point where you 're playing stadiums and it 's nothing special any more , you know something 's wrong . |
| 22 | Sometimes , to be firm with people can be more helpful than leaving problems until it is too late . |
| 23 | Treasurer Bernie Gaught is telling councillors that it is ‘ inevitable ’ that some people will be taken to court . |
| 24 | Mr Coombs is telling voters that it 's not the tories , but the labour local council who 're harming the local economy . |
| 25 | We 're go entering proposing to enter into legal agreements as well as planning conditions if it is to go ahead . |
| 26 | But the feeble efforts by the Yugoslav army to shake off mounting charges that it is backing Serbian militias in the conflict in Bosnia ended abruptly with the sharp crackle of Serbian sniper fire which sent the entire delegation diving for cover . |