Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because it is 21°C ( 70°F ) beside the hotel swimming pool does not mean that the weather is the same in the hills — it may well be raining there or the mist may be descending . |
| 2 | Well it may not be providing we can actually pull out some still |
| 3 | The collapse of Taurus will also give revenue an unexpected bonus as the scrapping of stamp duty on share dealings will be postponed , while Government borrowing looks as if it may not be spiralling out of control at quite the rate first feared . |
| 4 | Indeed , it may not be going too far to say that without J. G. Crowther New Scientist would not be here , certainly not in its present form . |
| 5 | It may not be going too far to suggest that Laski was the primary conduit through which early twentieth-century developments in American legal thought were filtered into British public law thought . |
| 6 | He 's the best of the lot , I mean , it may not be saying a lot , |
| 7 | If the evaluation is ‘ bolted on ’ at a later date it may not be measuring the success of the original , documented plans . |
| 8 | The Church will then inevitably decline in an increasingly irreversible way , as in some parts of the world it may already be doing . |
| 9 | For example , if a company occupies a self-contained building then it may simply be looking at sub-letting a surplus floor or floors to achieve its objective . |
| 10 | An old plan may no longer be operating officially but it may still be operating unofficially . |
| 11 | It was to have been the IRA 's biggest gun-running plot ever , but it was foiled because of what was called ‘ Operation Leprechaun ’ , where the CIA , our MI5 and Irish Intelligence took a healthy — or unhealthy , it all depends on your point of view — interest in the activities of Noraid , an Irish-American group that specialized — for all I know it may still be specializing — in buying American arms and shipping them to the IRA in Ireland . |
| 12 | It should also be helping with care for pre-school children . |
| 13 | It should n't be bothering you . |
| 14 | That the gulf existed was something she had known all along , so what she had overheard and the realisation it brought with it should n't be causing tears to prick behind her eyes as she opened the cupboard in the study that adjoined Faye and Bill 's bedroom , and got out the testing kit she had come for . |
| 15 | ‘ It should n't be making that . ’ |
| 16 | It could n't , it should n't be happening , but it was … |
| 17 | It should n't be happening . |
| 18 | Since it is the world leader at fashioning new-fangled superconductors made from thallium and bismuth ( which work at higher and more convenient temperatures ) , Sumitomo Electric sees no reason why it should not be supplying coils for sea-going SEMP vessels before the decade is out . |
| 19 | In Heseltine 's case , it must already be approaching the danger level ; he needs to be vigilant that nothing he says or does reinforces it . |
| 20 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 21 | However , two tunes stand out : the single ‘ One Love In My Lifetime ’ , and the alluring , groovy ‘ Looking For Someone ’ , a song so lazy that it must still be living with mum in middle-age . |
| 22 | But it might also be happening where the Communist Party have provided some sort of secure physical presence and where if , as a result of past exploitation , there was a substantial degree of antagonism towards landlords which , it would be that that was carried out . |
| 23 | It might just be saving money ? |
| 24 | It might well be coming |
| 25 | What you 'll find , you 'll find in here that it 'll just be picking up the budgies mainly . |
| 26 | Meiko also had a hand in developing Sun 's low-end Tsunami Sparc , which it says it 'll also be using when the thing arrives . |
| 27 | But it could n't be working in the room if we had control of the numbers though . |
| 28 | A SMALL village business , which is to shortly celebrate its first birthday , has been so successful it could soon be looking for bigger premises . |
| 29 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 30 | It could only be damaging to commercial life . |