Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] 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 | Comment : Though the inspectorate gives advice , it is unclear what this is , whether it is taken and what happens if it is ignored . |
| 19 | If people are going to prepare to spend the rest of their lives together , they should be discussing much more important things than concepts , like forever , they should be discussing , what happens if it 's splits up ? |
| 20 | The first state , called " potential meaning " , corresponds to the permanent meaning-capacity which a word or morpheme possesses before it is utilized in any particular situation . |
| 21 | Charioteers traditionally carry the deadly Singing Blade , a glaive-like weapon cunningly carved and pierced so that it shrieks as it is swung . |
| 22 | Now what happens when it 's going faster and faster , you can graph it , and you can see it going right up . |
| 23 | In the academic world there is a feeling that nothing exists until it is written down . |
| 24 | professional nature of employment : an organisation exists before it is filled with people . |
| 25 | The notion of antecedent causality arises here because an obligation necessarily exists before it is fulfilled . |
| 26 | Again , love and trust deepens and grows when it is expressed . |
| 27 | He folded her into his arms ; she could feel the tension singing inside him , as iron sings when it 's brought to a white heat . |
| 28 | The result is that the relay RLA is heard to click at the end of the timing period , but the timer re-starts as it is caused to re-commence timing for a further period . |
| 29 | sounds if it 's recording dun n it ? |
| 30 | The mortar shell explodes before it is fired . |