Example sentences of "[coord] it [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 2 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 3 | But teasing should n't contain too much truth or it is n't teasing any more , it 's … it 's … ’ |
| 4 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 5 | When it became obvious that the strike was n't going to last a fortnight or it was n't going to last a month . |
| 6 | It 's April and it 's probably going to rain . |
| 7 | Yeah and it 's just gon na finish it . |
| 8 | it 's one pound eighty and it 's just gon na be half |
| 9 | Recently , it installed an earth station for satellite communications in St Petersburg , and it 's also establishing a joint venture there for the provision of international telecommunications services . |
| 10 | It 's great doing a picture of Mozart 's Requiem at St Paul 's , but that 's only once a year and it 's simply recording something . |
| 11 | It 's great doing a picture of Mozart 's Requiem at St Paul 's , but that 's only once a year and it 's simply recording something . |
| 12 | All in all , it 's young , it 's fun , it 's what life is all about and it 's fast becoming one of the top resorts in this part of the world . |
| 13 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 14 | Men have a name for girls like you , and it 's not flattering — ’ |
| 15 | if they alter your round , er and it 's not collecting as much |
| 16 | If the weather 's all right and it 's not raining or nothing , I usually go to the garden to help Mr Frost . |
| 17 | it 's stopped raining and it 's not raining or anything . |
| 18 | You have another country along that coast , Nigeria , which has just got to the stage where it 's got through its forest and it 's not exporting anything at all , if anything it 's importing . |
| 19 | And it 's not earning us anything in there , but mind you erm it sometimes during the week where erm the tables are full of a load of papers and what have you where I 've been doing paper work and that |
| 20 | she 'll not have much of an appetite , because that bit 's not working properly , and it 's not getting a chance to go through her |
| 21 | so , so it 's not gon na be there , and unfortunately it 's going to take a while , because we 're in such a deep recession and recession is bad , and it 's not getting any better |
| 22 | And it 's not taking you as much time either . |
| 23 | And it 's not gon na be easy to get him outta the country … . |
| 24 | If it 's man and wife arguing , or man , female arguing , and they 're the only two in this place , and I 'm satisfied that it 's gon na be quiet , and there 's no injuries to each other and it 's not gon na flare up , then that 's a domestic , that you can be quite happy with . |
| 25 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 26 | And it 's not gon na be before April . |
| 27 | And it 's not gon na cost anything so the |
| 28 | They had got used to living in Brighton , and saw no reason to uproot themselves , but one of their tutors took them aside and said , ‘ Look , this place has n't got a proper research library , and it 's not going to get one . |
| 29 | ‘ They asked to be on it and it 's not going to do us any harm to have Slash and Ozzy on the new album , is it ? |
| 30 | And it 's not going to do it . |