Example sentences of "it is [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that background it is equally unsurprising to learn that Weir was the most highly-regarded Scottish company in the London business pages . |
| 2 | It is equally illuminating to examine what counts as " solid achievement " for writers in the Review . |
| 3 | This does not mean that its findings will be biased because of this ; it is simply setting out the parameters and the objectives of the research and the kinds of ideas that will inform it . |
| 4 | It says it has n't passed on the cost of those decreasing hardware margins to customers via higher software and services cost , rather it is simply targeting those areas where customers are going to spend more of their money . |
| 5 | In a break from Advanced RISC Machines Ltd 's usual policy of licensing entire ARM chips to its semiconductor partners , it is simply licensing the 32-bit core to Texas Instruments Inc for use in real-time control applications for the automotive industry . |
| 6 | It is simply defending its own caste interests . |
| 7 | It is simply going to drive him out of a livelihood , and increases the amount of consumer junk left around in lane and layby . |
| 8 | This is not just avoiding violence — it is simply avoiding the issue . |
| 9 | It is utterly baffling why Labour wants to pursue a policy that is likely to raise less revenue and do less good for everybody . |
| 10 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 11 | ( Though I have as much interest in my appearance as most women , I feel it is somehow degrading to admit it . |
| 12 | Yet it is fast becoming conventional wisdom about the liberal markets of America , Britain , Canada and Australia , both at home and abroad in their less financially liberal rivals , such as Germany , Japan and France . |
| 13 | It is fast becoming the sloppiest language in Europe . |
| 14 | It is fast becoming a business where , to participate , you need a glossary . |
| 15 | At the moment it is fast becoming the nicotine of the nineties . |
| 16 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 17 | A prognosis can necessarily be only an educated guess , but for the person hearing the answer , it is not helping this underlying question : ‘ Do I have to start grieving yet or is there time to get used to the idea ? ’ |
| 18 | But it is not helping the snail 's genes . |
| 19 | A large part of all advertising is designed ( deliberately or accidentally ) as ‘ reminder ’ or ‘ reinforcement ’ advertising : it is not trying to change anything . |
| 20 | ‘ It is not trying to infer that the people in the classroom are supporting me . |
| 21 | It is not meeting the new people which destroys the people : they carry the seeds of change within themselves . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , its point about the evidence for God 's goodness — that it is not compelling and that , indeed , there may be moments when it appears that the facts of life may not be reconciled with a good Creator at all — might also be applied to the evidence for God 's existence . |
| 23 | The best evidence for the existence of a black hole is the presence within the cluster of a unique radio source , Sgr A , but it is not compelling . |
| 24 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 25 | Thus , the clear [ l ] in initial pre-vocalic position is a broad regional marker , and we conclude from this relative invariance that it is not undergoing change . |
| 26 | But if it is not calling for immediate independence , or for unity with Romania , the Popular Front is certainly demanding sovereign autonomy for Moldavia and a renewal of national culture and identity . |
| 27 | In conversation about this family it may be perfectly understandable to say that ‘ one of Keith 's problems is that he is so aggressive ’ but it is not defining the problem from the viewpoint of intervention . |
| 28 | Although it has announced an intention to provide DCE-conformance with the Windows Remote Procedure Call ( RPC ) , it is not implementing all of DCE 's functionality , only the RPC . |
| 29 | It is not scaremongering to raise these spectres . |
| 30 | It is not scaremongering or playing the numbers game to recognise and respond to changes on that scale . |