Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a word which everyone is using and it 's almost like confetti . |
| 2 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 3 | Syria is hinting that it may refuse to attend further talks unless it is promised the whole of the Golan first . |
| 4 | The federal cartel office in Berlin is hinting that it will forbid the takeover of MBB . |
| 5 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 6 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 8 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 9 | Well , I think we should tell national office that this is , you know , this is happening and it 's not on ! |
| 10 | Even in the prenatal period the fetus is communicating that it is growing in size ; and in the later months of pregnancy that it is capable of movement . |
| 11 | The simplicity , though , is deceiving because it tells you little about the developmental performance leading to the strongly and reliably determined patterns of differentiation and spatial organisation of the animal . |
| 12 | The freewheeling diode has to withstand a reverse voltage equal to the d.c. supply voltage when the transistor is conducting and it must conduct a peak forward current equal to the rated phase current when the transistor first turns off . |
| 13 | Turning points in relationships , too , are often mapped out in this way — a quarrel , a meeting , a reconciliation may mark the moment of ‘ conception ’ ; one knows that a new phase is beginning but it does not become openly apparent until this nine-month span has past . |
| 14 | ‘ Ashley 's hotel is in a different part of town from where everyone else is staying and it seemed unfair to expect them to take a detour , ’ his mother explained . |
| 15 | It also says that the Government is considering whether it would be possible to frame a prohibition to cover situations in which a small number of companies or partnerships control a market and abuse their joint market power , without recourse to a restrictive agreement or collusion . |
| 16 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
| 17 | The deficit is rising and it is time , to use a phrase coined by the Wall Street Journal , to end these ‘ fiscal follies ’ . |
| 18 | Its toes are strong enough to hold it on the bark , no matter which way it is facing and it hops about in all directions with sure-footed nimbleness . |
| 19 | definitely less cruel than hunting because the animal is chased and er , what it 's heart is doing while it 's being chased and it 's , really is the idea 's quite horrendous to me ! |
| 20 | Yet again , Labour is demonstrating that it is engaged in a vendetta against part-time workers . |
| 21 | Merrydown is suffering because it is smaller than most of its rivals , but that could also mean a faster recovery , Purdey says . |
| 22 | He is saying that it would have been unlawful to honour the patient 's request , even if he had been willing to do so . |
| 23 | I become aware when parts of my body become tense and , more importantly , I know now how to ‘ relax ’ them , and when my body is saying that it has had enough I am able to leave things till tomorrow instead of insisting that they have to be done today . |
| 24 | The ‘ on ’ type is saying that the centre of its particular region of the visual field is brighter than the rest , while the ‘ off ’ type is saying that it is darker . |
| 25 | As I understand it , he is saying that it is the official policy of the Labour party not to build the fourth boat and that his only reservation arises from the fact that certain clauses in the contract might make cancellation commercially prohibitive . |
| 26 | And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first . |
| 27 | What we will be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that customers can see before they enter into the transaction and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 28 | No , what we would be doing is saying that it has to be clearly stated so that the customers can see before they enter into the transaction , and then we expect competitive forces in the market to make sure that the charges do n't get unrealistic . |
| 29 | It 's not always easy to remember these principles when you are tired , someone has soiled themselves yet again , another person is crying and it 's time to start serving lunch . |
| 30 | Miller and Swift believe that language change is threatening because it ‘ signals widespread changes in social mores ’ . |