Example sentences of "it be [verb] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you 're using so many different chemicals that it 's getting more and more confusing |
| 2 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 3 | It 's getting more and more important as it goes . |
| 4 | It 's called that but eating breakfast . |
| 5 | Yes , well , you say ‘ meant to be ’ and you 're right to say ‘ meant to be ’ , because , of course , Cabinet government is only a layer of the Government and there is a kind of inner Cabinet government , whether it 's called that or not , under different prime ministers — it always tends to develop . |
| 6 | It 's losing that and then |
| 7 | It 's a popular dream , your own country pub full of friendly locals , but it 's becoming more and more elusive as prices continue to rise despite the dive in the house market . |
| 8 | The two men just want to brew their traditional beers and make enough money to live on , but as things stand it 's becoming more and more difficult . |
| 9 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 10 | For the time being Microsoft has its guns trained on the Unix application base , but it is taking little or no effort to persuade ISVs to port to an operating system that by even its own admission wo n't be around until next Spring at the earliest . |
| 11 | erm local government , and I regret this , is probably going that way in that the demands upon Councillors are getting more and more , and for various reasons it is getting more and more difficult to find now in local government what I would call the amateur who who I think predominated in it , certainly outside the cities , up to nineteen seventy four . |
| 12 | To its lenders and investors , the firm has a value only if it is earning more than its cost of capital . |
| 13 | if the Purchaser believes it is paying more than market value , it would be better off claiming damages in tort rather than contract ; and vice versa ; |
| 14 | It is northing more than another attack aimed at the trade unions under the government 's Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , and takes absolutely no account of the additional hardship it will impose on our members . |
| 15 | ‘ We should like to see parents control the amount of time their children spend on computer games , especially if it becomes clear that it is becoming more than a normal hobby , ’ said the PAT deputy general secretary , Jackie Miller . |
| 16 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 17 | It is doing all that it can to ensure that skilled people will be available to meet the demands that will undoubtedly be made on the construction industry as the economy recovers from recession . |
| 18 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 19 | On April 24 it was announced that Than Shwe would serve as Prime Minister , a post hitherto held by Saw Maung , and the following day Than Shwe also replaced Saw Maung as C.-in-C. of the Defence Forces . |
| 20 | Although troupes of Tiller 's dancers eventually appeared in more than twenty-four such shows , it was to mean more than any other Royal Command in that the acts were personally chosen by the King and Queen . |