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 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |
| 18 | It is cognitively demanding in that the child has to distinguish between the reason and the result , despite the fact that they are interdependent . |
| 19 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 20 | One of his greatest knocks was the 143 at Port-of-Spain in 1968 — this after he had reached breaking-point in 1966 , only to come back with century after century in the 1967 Tests — but he still found touring the Caribbean a fairly distasteful affair , as revealed in his letter to his wife : ‘ We 're being taken for the biggest ride … the umpiring , the crowd and Charlie … it is downright cheating … |
| 21 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 22 | So it is mildly unsettling to realise that the richest regions of Europe also have their own inward investment agencies . |
| 23 | If the press is not reviewing other media , it is normally reporting on current events . |
| 24 | As long as the bird 's eye is visible , it is automatically giving the cat a ‘ stare ’ that inhibits its attacking lunge . |
| 25 | We just passed the revenue , the capital , the revenue then goes on the base budget , is called the revenue consequence of capital expenditure and all the fire officers ask for is enough to build a fire station and the cost of running it is automatically going onto your bill . |
| 26 | It is thus fitting that nowhere has pop been so active as in that area so firmly delineated as ‘ private ’ by the dominant culture and woe betide those who , like politicians in sex scandals , mix the public and the private , or otherwise transgress the narrow boundaries — namely those of sexuality and gender . |
| 27 | It is thus having one worker in the family that enables the other members to take low-paid work . |
| 28 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 29 | It is particularly fitting that Underwood should have chosen to step down in a year when the president of the Rugby Football Union is Peter Yarranton , himself a former England player and RAF pilot , who will be at today 's game . |
| 30 | It is particularly fitting that we should have the debates on education and employment on the same day , because education is a continuing process throughout life upon which employment is heavily dependent . |