Example sentences of "it be [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other humans around it are trying to explain to it what a planet is . ’ |
| 2 | The rink 's owners say it simply is n't making money — the clubs that use it are trying to form a consortium to keep it open . |
| 3 | The paper quotes Microsoft officials saying that the 130 to 140 developers working on it are trying to develop an operating system that will provide a consistent means of accessing information with seamless integration of everyday tasks . |
| 4 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 5 | Why should it be seeking to deprive children of a first-class education ? |
| 6 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 7 | There were crescents under his eyes like bruises , and his jaw jutted out as though it were trying to overtake his nose . |
| 8 | When you ca n't do something you know , you might actually kind of , your whole body kind of starts to , and that would be the ego as it were trying to express this , this er drive from the id . |
| 9 | It felt as if it were going to burst . |
| 10 | It 's demoralizing to see what a small area the Universal Church commands . |
| 11 | It 's hoping to meet the shopkeepers and reach a compromise . |
| 12 | It 's rewarding to rummage around these little mines of information , particularly for free ( or at least the cost of a local call ) . |
| 13 | Use your wipers , ’ he said , ‘ it 's beginning to rain , ’ |
| 14 | It 's beginning to happen in Frankfurt and Paris , but … ’ he trails off in a manner sufficient to make the Continentals want to cut the United Kingdom adrift . |
| 15 | It 's beginning to happen . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's now able to concentrate solely on his football , and it 's beginning to dawn on him just how good he really is . |
| 17 | It 's beginning to help us to understand multiple sclerosis , and there are a number of hormonal or endocrine diseases , such as thyrotoxicosis , underactive thyroid disease , juvenile onset diabetes , rheumatoid arthritis , which are all immunological disorders and erm in which the advances of immunology have contributed to understanding . |
| 18 | This team wants to play and wants to win and it 's beginning to show . ’ |
| 19 | And it 's beginning to show . ’ |
| 20 | Bobby and Ian both sacrifice a lot of time to Lisburn 's teenage golfers and it 's beginning to show . |
| 21 | It 's beginning to make sense ! |
| 22 | In that respect the game is certainly true to the movie , but it 's beginning to age a little now , since the release of its successors . |
| 23 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 24 | But against the sky , especially when it 's beginning to get dark … |
| 25 | ‘ It 's beginning to get exciting , is n't it ? ’ |
| 26 | Morale was very low a few months ago , but it 's beginning to get better now |
| 27 | ‘ It 's beginning to fit much better , ’ said my mother . |
| 28 | It 's beginning to smell |
| 29 | ‘ … the stars are getting bigger … pulsating … and the sea … it 's beginning to boil … ’ |
| 30 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |