Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're wondering whether it sounds like a thirty year-old Strat , the answer is an obvious ‘ no ’ . |
| 2 | The gunfire and noise in the woods had been lessening as it drew nearer and the targets became fewer . |
| 3 | Encore Computer Corp must be wondering whether it did the right thing in selling the Annex server product line to Xylogics Inc . |
| 4 | ‘ They was saying in the grocer 's today , the river 'll be flooding if it gets much worse . |
| 5 | I 'll do your arm , but do n't be complainin' if it fockin' well hurts . |
| 6 | We 've managed to run our economy so that the pound has always been teetering before it fell ; the successful economies have been run so that the currency had to be suppressed . ’ |
| 7 | Equally — perhaps more seriously — the relative value of the basic pension has been falling because it has been related to prices , not incomes , so that unless steps are taken , by the year 2025 the value of the basic pension as a proportion of gross earnings could have fallen by half . |
| 8 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 9 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 10 | The simplicity , though , is deceiving because it tells you little about the developmental performance leading to the strongly and reliably determined patterns of differentiation and spatial organisation of the animal . |
| 11 | I think it 's deceiving because it 's got such high ceilings |
| 12 | I ca n't make any sense of what he 's saying because it seems to me that erm our common and everyday and perhaps very deficient notion of individuation is , what makes me different from the rest of you ? |
| 13 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
| 14 | The reduction in the intensity of the stimuli associated with the drive is as reinforcing as the actual reduction of the drive itself : thus food in the mouth does not reduce hunger , but it is reinforcing as it reduces the drive stimulus or craving for food . |
| 15 | Strictly speaking , much of this walk is trespassing since it does n't follow recognised footpaths , but the land is rough grazing and wo n't suffer from the passage of a few feet . |
| 16 | The government , they say , is bluffing when it claims that TECs are intended to tackle Britain 's persistent skills shortage . |
| 17 | Potential meaning is meaning as it resides in the speaker 's unconscious even when he is not speaking . |
| 18 | He reckons the trip would have been smashing if it had been the height of summer but as it was , he saw practically nothing from start to finish . |
| 19 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 20 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 21 | ‘ Who was driving when it went past the pub ? ’ |
| 22 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 23 | It 's circulation was peaking as it reached its fiftieth edition . |
| 24 | The transmission was short , but he was sweating when it ceased . |
| 25 | He says the state of the damage shows how fast the car was going when it crashed . |
| 26 | It 's lying in the same direction as it was flying when it came down — north-east to south-west . |
| 27 | Colchester North MP , Bernard Jenkin , was speaking as it emerged that the Danes had approved the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum by 56.8 per cent to 43.2 pc . |
| 28 | Critics of the decision by the Bush administration said yesterday that continuing US production was destabilising because it encouraged countries capable of producing chemical weapons to begin developing new production lines immediately . |
| 29 | Timothy crossed the car-park , glad that the publican was whistling since it suggested good humour . |
| 30 | For all the gadgetry , everything stopped when the photocopier was working because it soaked up all the power . |