Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 2 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 3 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 4 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 6 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 7 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 8 | Even in the prenatal period the fetus is communicating that it is growing in size ; and in the later months of pregnancy that it is capable of movement . |
| 9 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 10 | The deficit is rising and it is time , to use a phrase coined by the Wall Street Journal , to end these ‘ fiscal follies ’ . |
| 11 | definitely less cruel than hunting because the animal is chased and er , what it 's heart is doing while it 's being chased and it 's , really is the idea 's quite horrendous to me ! |
| 12 | Yet again , Labour is demonstrating that it is engaged in a vendetta against part-time workers . |
| 13 | Merrydown is suffering because it is smaller than most of its rivals , but that could also mean a faster recovery , Purdey says . |
| 14 | The ‘ on ’ type is saying that the centre of its particular region of the visual field is brighter than the rest , while the ‘ off ’ type is saying that it is darker . |
| 15 | As I understand it , he is saying that it is the official policy of the Labour party not to build the fourth boat and that his only reservation arises from the fact that certain clauses in the contract might make cancellation commercially prohibitive . |
| 16 | And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first . |
| 17 | It 's not always easy to remember these principles when you are tired , someone has soiled themselves yet again , another person is crying and it 's time to start serving lunch . |
| 18 | Yes erm but it is begging and it is it is pagan . |
| 19 | It is running but it 's not showing us anything |
| 20 | Today , when the victim of an allegedly defamatory statement challenges its maker to report it outside the House , he is acknowledging that it is privileged and therefore unactionable in the courts and daring the Member to abandon the protection of parliamentary privilege . |
| 21 | The board has lodged five complaints with the LEA and is questioning whether it is getting value for money . |
| 22 | Which is recognizing that it 's not there to start with . |
| 23 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 24 | ‘ Poverty is increasing and it 's being called dependency . |
| 25 | A coach firm is claiming that it 's owed more than two thousand pounds by a charity set up to help Bosnian children . |
| 26 | B. Life in Britain is changing and it is changing more and more quickly . |
| 27 | While Mukařovský and the Thèses proposed that the ‘ set ’ towards the message was brought about by deviation from or violation of a norm , Jakobson here in his later work is arguing that it is the consequence of the peculiar symmetry or convergence of the ‘ poetic ’ text . |
| 28 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 29 | The State Department is murmuring that it is ‘ premature to speculate ’ on the long-term implications of the coup . |
| 30 | Now it is rarely seen , though the present herb revival is ensuring that it is once more being propagated and distributed . |