Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polygamy is now going out of favour , especially as the risk of contracting AIDS through multiple sexual partners is high , and as women become more liberated they are demanding that it be made illegal . |
| 2 | Erm You asked some while ago whether it should n't be possible at least to have a an agreed view on how many people are dying as it were . |
| 3 | It would be perverse , then , to deny that very exciting things have been happening and it is no business of this chapter to disparage these remarkable advances in understanding of the brain . |
| 4 | It is very important to keep on happy and good terms with the family that are living and it is extremely sad when the death of a parent who loved all the children should be an unwitting source of family rifts . |
| 5 | ‘ I am implying that it 's unnatural , and I want you to talk to your father . |
| 6 | I think it 's the kind of food we 're using cos it 's different food from the food that we had at the beginning . |
| 7 | Yeah well Robert said why have we stopped so I said I think we 're looking because it 's a typical new house and daddy wants to see what typical new houses now offer . |
| 8 | Okay , so the gradient which shows you how fast they 're going If it 's more or less horizontal , they 're still . |
| 9 | People always think we ignore them when they 're waiting but it is n't really like that . |
| 10 | You know I mean you 're wondering whether it 's going to blow the chimney pot off or all sorts of things . |
| 11 | In fact , we 're wondering whether it 's going to be possible to keep it up but the trouble is it 's in an area where in the last ooh , over over recent years forty chapels have closed ! |
| 12 | I think , I think in fact you 're , you 're not having the problems that we 're having where it 's very difficult so you 've got er a really nice representation but have n't quite gone far enough . |
| 13 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 14 | Erm , we 're coming as it were to the end of the first part of the proceedings , er , but , I 'd like to give a brief thanks to the er , C R group , that 's the Charities Recruitment Group , for the part sponsorship of this A G M Conference . |
| 15 | That there 's an attempt here to trying to save as many of those jobs as possible and I do n't take the insurances of the gone through the system now , but exactly true you 're saying that it is . |
| 16 | that 's why , that 's so that we can give the shop his control of supply which actually like my da , you 're saying if it was a computer disc supplier he could have next day delivery to him and then next day delivery to my man . |
| 17 | I I know what you 're saying and it 's different to the way I 'm interpreting it . |
| 18 | I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps |
| 19 | Now , it 's alright , I 'm looking at people and they 're smiling and it 's throwing me . |
| 20 | You 're forgetting that it 's Hilary you would have to turn to if you want me taken out . |
| 21 | And I am wondering whether it is the Devil 's work . ’ |
| 22 | That you are wondering whether it is safe to come here with Tom ? ’ |
| 23 | I am waiting and it is not a time for you to be chatting . |
| 24 | Detectives are investigating whether it was an accident , a murder or a suicide pact . |
| 25 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 26 | Yes just before we leave however the question of what occur in my mind how you 're going to get from the present position in what appears to be a cost plus basis as we go along to a fixed cost basis and presumably the programme and I in in , are running as it were , are running effectively on the cost plus basis |
| 27 | But the Americans are coming and it 's causing great alarm in some circles . |
| 28 | So the Council are saying although it 's yours , the hut 's yours , the land is ours |
| 29 | We are we are very close now to completing the final lease agreement with Moat erm as we 're not quite there yet I 'm I 'm gon na be suggesting if it 's possible to er , amend er one of the recommendations er , recommendation B , er , to take note of the facts that we quite er , finalised the agreement yet erm I wanted to try and get in line with the er , programme for the recommendation which came out of Great Parndon Neighbourhood Committee . |
| 30 | I 'm not telling every woman to take me H R T , I 'm suggesting that it 's preventative medicine . |