Example sentences of "it be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my opinion on this is really fairly redundant , because the people who are buying it are going to be pros — either that or seasoned bank robbers ! |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , ’ he spelled out for her , ‘ I wo n't force your engagement to my brother to an end if I feel some aspects of it are going to be — how shall we say ? — under my control . ’ |
| 3 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 4 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 5 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 6 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 7 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 8 | So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project . |
| 9 | By and large it 's according to people 's occupations and you start with A which will be professional people , surgeons solicitors etcetera . |
| 10 | So it 's according to the number of people that use it , go to mass , how much you pay |
| 11 | It 's according to satist to statistics and studies carried out . |
| 12 | You do that all the time but it 's remembering to actually |
| 13 | Just see if it 's speaking to me . |
| 14 | It 's confessing to our fraud . ’ |
| 15 | He says you lot ca n't play and it 's getting to him , it 's too much work for him to take on , what with his writing and everything . |
| 16 | I said to myself , ‘ Oh boy , it 's getting to him . |
| 17 | Of course it 's getting to the stage when one version of the album alone wo n't be enough to satisfy everyone . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's getting to us a bit but it 's making us even more determined . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's getting to the stage where it 's not a habitable area . ’ |
| 20 | We get up at 7 a.m. , and have breakfast at 7.30 ( now it 's getting to be more like 7.45 ! ) before we set out by car for the Institute where we start teaching at 8.30 . |
| 21 | Mind you it 's getting to the end of the run as well is n't it now ? |
| 22 | But I mean , it 's getting to the stage now where it 's gon na become counter-productive , well , for me cos it 's got to such a point now where I 've got exchanges going through , I 've got erm sales going through , details to be typed , canvassing going out , instructions , appointments to make , the outcomes |
| 23 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 24 | It 's proving to be a strain , both financially and physically — since we are doing as much of the work ourselves as possible — and our friends were convinced for some time that we had gone mad ! |
| 25 | And like any other baby it 's proving to be quite a handfull … especially at mealtimes . |
| 26 | If you look at the report , White Paper , you 'll notice that it 's sticking to a , a freezing of the nineteen-ninety levels by the year two thousand and five , and you may feel that you would like to see this country come more into line with the other E E C countries and ask for a freezing by the year two thousand . |
| 27 | When Jessie was again seated and her anger was deflated , Agnes said , ‘ How … how far is it , really ? ’ and Jessie drooped her head as she muttered , ‘ Three months or so , and it 's beginning to be … be prominent . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe … maybe it 's beginning to … wind down now , Luke . |
| 29 | ‘ In general we feel that , as far as nuclear power is concerned , it 's beginning to be far more acceptable . |
| 30 | Cos it 's beginning to really piss me off . |