Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 2 | Their decision was prompted by fears that the protector might usurp the throne , although Mancini adds that it was supported by the queen 's family , who wanted to prevent power passing to Gloucester . |
| 3 | Royal watcher Margaret Holder said : ‘ It looks like it is going to be an unhappy time for the Queen and everyone else . |
| 4 | I 'm not being facile , but we came from the sea , we 've dumped on it for years and it looks like it 's getting its own back . |
| 5 | If the confrontation between Nazareth and Rome looks like it 's becoming unproductive , the teacher can come out of role and ask the children to reflect on what has been happening — perhaps through discussion , perhaps through a short piece of writing ( a diary entry , a letter to a friend , a sketch representing how the townspeople feel about the power relationship , or — shifting the perspective — the report that the Roman has to make to his commanding officer ) . |
| 6 | If I see one that looks like it 's growing good , I might give it some extra feed and talk to it a bit . ’ |
| 7 | He 's got to work this one out for himself sooner or later , and it looks like it 's going to be sooner . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Looks like it 's going to be a year of extremes , ’ Yanto grunted |
| 9 | ‘ It looks like it 's going to be a record , ’ said group MD Tony Salem . |
| 10 | Looks like it 's going to be a very full summer ahead ! |
| 11 | It looks like it 's going to be difficult to shrug this one off , picking at the racist scab was never going to do anyone any good , quiffy boy . |
| 12 | assistants are in doubt It looks like it 's going to be group supply in here . |
| 13 | . But they choose their own stories so you And if you , it looks like it 's going to be an exceedingly long story you can |
| 14 | Looks like it 's going to rain . |
| 15 | Looks like it 's gon na be a long night . |
| 16 | yeah , if it is sunny , I was gon na chuck curtains in there so I mean it looks like it 's gon na , five year old |
| 17 | Yeah , but it looks like it 's gon na be good some of them |
| 18 | The place looks like it was ransacked by an LAPD squadron looking for drugs or a thrash metal band who found them . |
| 19 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |
| 20 | ‘ It looks like it was made in someone 's front room instead of in the open air in front of thousands of people . |
| 21 | Regarding the ‘ fat factor ’ , he did n't look particularly portly in the picture in last nights local rag ( looks like it was taken during Wimbledon at home ) . |
| 22 | So what if she has only three frocks to her name ( ‘ cuts down on the washin' ’ ) Or if her ‘ fur ’ coat looks like it was handed down from Wilma Flintstone . |
| 23 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 24 | The ring glows because it was heated to more than 20 000 °C by radiation produced by the supernova blast . |
| 25 | Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request . |
| 26 | Where desktop publishing begins to score , even over its close cousin corporate electronic publishing , CEPS as it is known , is in its ability to integrate with current personal computer systems . |
| 27 | but everybody thinks that it 's gon na be easy |
| 28 | COUNTING Americans is not easy but the law insists that it be done . |
| 29 | But David Dein , the Arsenal vice-chairman martyred for his part in the deal , insists that it is working ‘ eminently satisfactorily ’ . |
| 30 | When the ark is sent for , he remarks that it is accompanied on its journey to the Israelite camp by Hophni and Phinehas . |