Example sentences of "it 's [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I think it 's flattering that somebody would take the time . |
| 2 | It 's puzzling that the British public seems to share this feeling of worship for Russian dancers , yet does n't extend anything like the same respect to its own . |
| 3 | With such a carefully organised operation it 's puzzling that Langan 's should be so unwelcoming . |
| 4 | When it 's raining that I find depressing ! |
| 5 | It 's unsurprising that such an attitude failed to produce competent screenwriters , let alone exciting ones . |
| 6 | As someone who lives just outside Brighton and commutes to Autocar & Motor 's office on the outskirts of Teddington , West London , it 's fitting that I should be the Clio 's new keeper . |
| 7 | It 's fitting that P D James will be present , in her capacity as governor . |
| 8 | So it 's fitting that his collection of fishing tackle is being auctioned off in the town tomorrow . |
| 9 | Do you think the danger in positive discrimination is that er it 's implying that women ca n't compete on equal terms with the men in the first place ? |
| 10 | Perhaps it 's telling that a similar process of self-siphoning is also afflicting Hollywood , for no other song-writer is as steeped in cinema as Springsteen ( it is surprising that we had to wait until Indian Runner for a film to be made of one of his songs ) . |
| 11 | Some women , and hopefully more women , will turn that into political action — whether that 's demanding a playgroup for or whether it 's demanding that their political leaders were mainly male , pay more attention to women . |
| 12 | IT 'S terrifying that the Tories are blundering on with their policy of no hope in education . |
| 13 | Oh , it 's , it 's terrifying that we 're all actually sitting here in enormous anticipation , because I think we 're going to er present an astonishing amount of money this time . |
| 14 | So that although these are er fairly different relatives in terms of bacteria it 's striking that the ETEC organism has been able to acquire in some way almost exactly the same gene that 's present in choleri . |
| 15 | Erm you see it 's it 's balancing that between the fact that we do n't |
| 16 | But if these strong women have been suppressed in soaps , it 's reassuring that elsewhere in television they 're erupting and ‘ coming out ’ as it were . |
| 17 | ‘ That is not to say I am not looking around and it 's reassuring that there 's money available if necessary . |
| 18 | I always felt it 's asking that matters . ’ |
| 19 | It 's mainlining that leaves scars . ’ |
| 20 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 21 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
| 22 | What that exhibition in fact is doing is that it 's not saying here 's a new spirit in painting , it 's saying that we the organizers , having not bothered to show you these things in the sixties and seventies , will now allow you to see them in the eighties , and we will pretend there 's a new spirit because we think it 's good for the art world to have new fashions , new movements , or at least something new going on that will produce some kind of emotional pressure . |
| 23 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 24 | in a vicious circle too it 's working that the tax payers are having to subsidize bed and breakfast |
| 25 | It 's explaining that this is what the recommendation is , however , I 'm not a dictator , I 'm put there by you voters , your representatives have got to decide . |
| 26 | Lucy pointed out rapidly , ‘ It 's not where a relationship has come from — it 's where it 's going that matters . |
| 27 | It 's feeling that matters . |
| 28 | You may have a , a compliance issue outstanding , or whatever , or there 's been a complaint against you , it will show up in here , it 's very rare , but it 's indicating that there 's something that needs to be looked at . |