Example sentences of "but it [is] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We recognise why that is , and it is a perfectly reasonable requirement that they should be given that free school meal , but it is producing a rather sudden burden for education authorities which they are finding difficult to accommodate at present . |
| 2 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 3 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 4 | But it is varying cultural transactions of the past which encouraged Shakespeare 's plays to remain in wide circulating which empower Shakespeare 's continued circulation . |
| 5 | Not only is the food aid late but it is depressing the market for peasants who produced surplus maize for sale ( see box above ) . |
| 6 | The Government is fond of pointing out that output rose 20% between 1981 and 1991 , but it is setting the starting point in the trough of a recession to suit itself . |
| 7 | But it is concerning . ’ |
| 8 | Management today may be able to get away with it , but it is creating a legacy for those who will have to manage organisations in the future . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , but it is understudying a part I 've already played — and played well . ’ |
| 10 | I know it 's hot and uncomfortable , but it is helping you — that 's it . ’ |
| 11 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 12 | Birds of Prey does satisfy some of these criteria and has several novel features , but it is flying in a very competitive and ‘ target rich ’ environment . |
| 13 | Reefer And The Model has its flaws , but it is trying for something extra . |
| 14 | ‘ I did not mean risk with me , ’ he answered , annoyed , ‘ but it is trying to rain and your dress is not covered . ’ |
| 15 | But it is trying to believe in the dignity of human beings . |
| 16 | But it is considering other changes to please the market . |
| 17 | But it is receiving a large amount of money — in addition , it receives £61 million specifically for the new St. Pancras project . |
| 18 | The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old , but it is breaking up fast . |
| 19 | It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices . |
| 20 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 21 | All schools would say caring was important but it is getting squeezed . ’ |
| 22 | But it is getting warm in here . |
| 23 | I though when they won the league they were bad but it is getting worse with each passing day . |
| 24 | Nonetheless I must stand my ground and restate that not only did it happen then , but it is getting worse ! |
| 25 | For the time being Microsoft has its guns trained on the Unix application base , but it is taking little or no effort to persuade ISVs to port to an operating system that by even its own admission wo n't be around until next Spring at the earliest . |
| 26 | The arts world does not expect to resolve its funding problems by a change of government , but it is hoping for a more civilised political climate . |
| 27 | has found sales targets outside the UK snack market difficult to achieve but it is hoping to obtain new sales from recent new initiatives . |
| 28 | The Conservative Party is not looking for experts , but it is looking for men and women who have a good working knowledge of contemporary politics and a proven track record of experience in the party , and who above all know their own minds . |
| 29 | But it is looking to grow by 20% each year , its sights set on overtaking arch-rival Computer Associates International Inc — presently three times its size — and taking the number three position by 1997 . |
| 30 | The mutual interdependence between rural and urban areas which characterized the prewar period is by no means completely gone , but it is waning fast . |