Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal watcher Margaret Holder said : ‘ It looks like it is going to be an unhappy time for the Queen and everyone else . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | If I see one that looks like it 's growing good , I might give it some extra feed and talk to it a bit . ’ |
| 5 | He 's got to work this one out for himself sooner or later , and it looks like it 's going to be sooner . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Looks like it 's going to be a year of extremes , ’ Yanto grunted |
| 7 | ‘ It looks like it 's going to be a record , ’ said group MD Tony Salem . |
| 8 | Looks like it 's going to be a very full summer ahead ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | assistants are in doubt It looks like it 's going to be group supply in here . |
| 11 | . 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 |
| 12 | Looks like it 's going to rain . |
| 13 | Looks like it 's gon na be a long night . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Yeah , but it looks like it 's gon na be good some of them |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | but everybody thinks that it 's gon na be easy |
| 19 | But David Dein , the Arsenal vice-chairman martyred for his part in the deal , insists that it is working ‘ eminently satisfactorily ’ . |
| 20 | When the ark is sent for , he remarks that it is accompanied on its journey to the Israelite camp by Hophni and Phinehas . |
| 21 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 22 | Prices have yet to be set , but the company says that it is looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for a development kit and around $100 per user for run-time use . |
| 23 | He says that it is recorded in the that on the death of Molla Fenari , Molla Yegan was authorized to give fetvas in the time of Murad II ; but that since he did not actually rise to the office of Mufti — the actual words used are " the rank of the glorious office of fetva " , fetva being used here , a — often , to indicate the Muftilik-he will not be singled out and accorded special mention . |
| 24 | ( Sun says that it is getting 50MHz parts now . ) |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development . |
| 26 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 27 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 28 | Becker says that it is expecting too much of Third world bourgeoisies to think they can bring about societal transformations on a grand scale or act in the ‘ heroic ’ way of entrepreneurs a century ago ( Becker 1983 ) . |
| 29 | The company now says that it is producing some 20 million metres of VHS tape per month — enough to fill more than 100 000 cassettes . |
| 30 | The department says that it is seeking advice from the Committee on safety of Medicines on B17 . |