Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And depending whether it 's a rectangular plot or whether it is n't or not or if it 's slightly at an angle then some of the corner houses have a fairly long gardens . |
| 2 | That statement was swiftly followed by a countersuit against Phar-Mor 's management , claiming unspecified damages and maintaining that it was unable to audit the company accurately because its financial statements were altered . |
| 3 | The ceremony has died out in many areas over the past hundred years , so it was a good idea to revive it.There 's cider and singing and it 's good fun . |
| 4 | spends his day blending the malt and seeing that it is despatched correctly . |
| 5 | And seeing as it was my brainchild , would you not say it was possibly the best commercial of all time ? |
| 6 | Any visual task is rendered more difficult and fatiguing if it is undertaken in poor lighting . |
| 7 | On Dec. 18 the UN Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 799 condemning the Israeli action and demanding that it be rescinded , but the Israeli Cabinet , meeting on Dec. 20 , reaffirmed its decision . |
| 8 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 9 | In one evocative passage , during a discussion of animism and the development of automata , he refers to a six-year-old girl showing her doll how a computer works and explaining that it is a friend . |
| 10 | You 're wet and shivering as it is . |
| 11 | A chill October breeze forced its way through countless gaps and alleys in the structures surrounding them , tugging and pushing when it was least expected , lifting Diane 's hair and flicking it across her face . |
| 12 | Something — he was n't sure just what — which had caused the entire north to rise like yeast in sudden and furious ferment , the whole of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire seething with militant men and women — highly militant , those women — on the march , carrying banners and loaves of bread on the end of sticks , singing hymns and psalms and chanting that it was no longer a matter of wages . |
| 13 | Durance shut him up , saying he had never had reason to doubt the woman 's loyalty and inferring that it was more reliable than Maurin 's . |
| 14 | ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands . |
| 15 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 16 | Micro Focus Plc makes a very good living out of a programming language that many believed would be long dead by now yet still shows no signs of fading away — but if object-oriented programming fulfils its promise and sweeps away the paraphernalia of the first 35 years of the computer industry , Micro Focus is going to have to be ready and waiting if it is not going to be swept away too . |
| 17 | It had been , however briefly , a time when her body and her mind had fitted together so tidily and wholely that , waking up one morning and deciding that it was time to go back to Oxford and visit her mother , was neither traumatic nor casual , but straightforward . |
| 18 | It 's a pity you do n't feel like standing up and racing cos it 's lovely . |
| 19 | Hansen then flew Wixsom and mechanic Nick Quint to Florida for the purpose of inspecting N9837A and verifying that it was all there . |
| 20 | Oak is not really an ideal timber for external joinery since it can suffer from surface checking and splitting if it is exposed to the sun and the rain . |
| 21 | Commented Al Purdy , ‘ with ( this book ) Cohen brought to near perfection the techniques and rhythms of his first book ’ ; Eli Mandel — one of Canada 's most astute critics — speaks of it as ‘ a kind of gloss ’ to the Sabbath service , noting its rich diversity in subject and tone , and emphasising that it is ‘ not a random collection of lyrics . |
| 22 | Indeed , Mr Voss had last year written to The Daily Telegraph extolling the place — ‘ for patrons who wish to relax in comfort and splendour and enjoy the delights of haute cuisine ’ — and complaining that it was n't fair that Paddy Burt had written about a nearby Dorset establishment ( albeit unfavourably ) . |
| 23 | The steward is said to have issued the boys with a receipt , made out for £5 and indicating that it was for the journey from Stonehouse to Gloucester . |
| 24 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 25 | It 's increasingly difficult for the voluntary sector to make provision of this kind , to offer those opportunities without proper partnership with the state , so I do n't actually accept if you 're posing an alternative and saying that it 's either or , I do n't think that 's correct . |
| 26 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 27 | Despite such successes in imaginative shoestring operations , the UN is desperately in need of reform and strengthening if it is to meet the critical tests of the post-Cold War era . |
| 28 | up and running as it were and er I shall be I I know already that some of these figures are inaccurate |
| 29 | I looked at her dubiously , and she was still laughing and insisting that it was true . |
| 30 | Here some effort will be made to explore the theoretical significance of the commonly-experienced phenomenon of hearing a voice and knowing that it is familiar but not knowing to whom it belongs . |