Example sentences of "it be raining " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider also the statement that ( B ) if it were raining , the balcony would be wet . |
| 2 | To say that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is to say this : among possible worlds where it is raining , the one which overall is most like our actual world is also one in which the balcony is wet . |
| 3 | Stalnaker , 1975 ) Or , to interpret the idea in a way less ontologically extravagant , a way which does not seem to commit us to a plurality of somehow existing worlds , what the conditional means is this : if our actual world were different in that it were raining , and differences overall were in a sense the smallest possible , the balcony would be wet . |
| 4 | One source of this theory , to continue in terms of the example , is the truth that if it were raining , more other things would be different than that the balcony was wet . |
| 5 | Again , does " If it were raining the balcony would be wet " mean something about other ways that the world would be different , over and above the balcony 's being wet , if there were the difference that it was raining ? |
| 6 | What we have as premiss for the dependent conditional that if it were raining the balcony would be wet is roughly this : in that possible world most like our own in which it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 7 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |
| 8 | It were raining at five o'clock this morning . |
| 9 | It were raining last night at what time did we go ? |
| 10 | There is a methadone clinic nearby and on Saturday morning , if it 's raining , junkies , too , meet under the Romanesque arches . |
| 11 | It 's raining heavily as I wrap myself in my gascape and move further to the back of the trench . |
| 12 | Unless it 's raining of course … |
| 13 | When the day is fine the roof does n't need mending ; when it 's raining it 's not the right weather do to it ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ May , wake up , it 's raining ! ’ |
| 15 | If it 's raining in the afternoon there will be a table tennis tournament . |
| 16 | If it 's raining , aerobics will be followed by table tennis and craft work . |
| 17 | It 's raining . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 19 | It 's raining and shining on a high-rise tower , |
| 20 | Hang on now , it 's raining , |
| 21 | In summer it is even possible to climb here when it 's raining ( and when it stops ! ) |
| 22 | For example , is the utterance ‘ It 's raining and we 'll get wet ’ an example of reporting and recognising related aspects of experience , or is it an example of recognising causal relationships under logical reasoning ? |
| 23 | Do it in daylight , in the dark , when it 's raining and in windy conditions . |
| 24 | What must you be careful of when it 's raining cats and dogs ? |
| 25 | It 's raining again , yet the sprinklers are on the best mown lawns in the USA . |
| 26 | It 's raining . |
| 27 | Kevin and Sharon are visiting Wimborne Minster because it 's raining . |
| 28 | Even if it 's raining and even if you have no stomach to work ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ he said , ‘ you can have it for £60 as that 's the last size 10 I 've got , and I 've got to pack up in a minute and it 's raining . |
| 30 | The woodwind sextuplets at the end of ‘ Deh vieni non tardar ’ became an image of summer rain ; Susanna is in an English garden , the garden at Glyndebourne , and it 's raining … |