Example sentences of "[conj] it be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is operating under contractual rules , it is not under any general obligation to follow High Court procedures , such as discovery or the strict rules of evidence . |
| 2 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 3 | Locus hints that it 's working with two major vendors developing open distributed TP applications . |
| 4 | As a matter of general law , apart from the statutory provisions and the Law Society 's regulations , the firm 's name must not be such as to deceive the general public into believing that it is dealing with some rival firm . |
| 5 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 6 | They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia . |
| 7 | That it is proceeding at all , despite the intense financial and media scepticism that followed last summer 's initial announcement , is a tribute to Sir Denys Henderson and his team . |
| 8 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 9 | On the standards side , DEC has announced that it is working with International Software Systems Inc ( ISSI ) , Austin , Texas on an architectural definition and implementation plan for the European Computer Manufacturers Association ( ECMA ) Portable Common Tool Environment ( PCTE ) standard . |
| 10 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |
| 11 | MCI Communications Corp describes a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is talking with several cable television companies about partnerships , with them possibly buying a stake in MCI as no more than rumour . |
| 12 | OfficePower for Unix currently only supports ICL 's long time relational database partner , Ingres , though there are plans to bring the Oracle Corp offering into play , and the company confirms that it is talking to other companies too . |
| 13 | Much of what has been considered to be poststructuralism 's wild disregard for history can be accounted for by the fact that it was operating within this — largely unknown outside France — anti-empiricist and anti-positivist tradition . |
| 14 | However , by early June it was clear that the Army was hesitant , claiming that it was functioning without full constitutional cover . |
| 15 | On Jan. 30 the USA announced that it was withdrawing in 1992 17,000 more troops than had been planned , and closing or cutting back 83 more bases . |
| 16 | In 1985 , BR announced that it was withdrawing from existing agreements with the unions , although it seemed unlikely that this would seriously reduce the level of unionization . |
| 17 | The Czechoslovak government announced on April 4 that it had formally notified the CMEA Secretariat that it was withdrawing from three multilateral agreements designed to regulate the currency rate mechanism which were no longer operational [ see pp. 37326 ; 37334 ] . |
| 18 | That it was going in this direction anyway had already been signalled by the resignations — often amid recrimination — of every one of Mr Gorbachev 's top economic advisers : notably Stanislav Shatalin ( who gave his name to the rejected ‘ 500-day ’ plan to convert the Soviet economy to capitalism ) and Nikolai Petrakov ( who was the president 's personal economic guru ) . |
| 19 | As he raised it to his lips he saw that it was brimming with drowned black insects . |
| 20 | Just as the old order has fallen in eastern Europe , so it is falling in educational establishment circles in Britain . |
| 21 | Most of the city is covered by conservation areas , so it is asking for special controls on large swathes where even single signs would detract from the historic appearance . |
| 22 | This may look like a minute , but it 's not a minute , and it 's getting less one with every line . |
| 23 | The company has formed a new netball team by combining players from LASMO North Sea and LASMO plc and it 's looking for new recruits to boost its current 15-strong membership . |
| 24 | Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime . |
| 25 | Gon na ask you to do an exercise now er it 'll it 'll take us to four o'clock before we start talking about assertiveness what I 'm gon na ask you to do is in one , two three , one two in two twos and a three I want you to put on paper one side one sheet of paper to sum up all the things we 've done about communication so far today and it 's going to other people on this course , and it 's going to be marked by one of them on this course . |
| 26 | Erm and it 's talking about this er accommodation theory Giles ' accommodation theory which has one main assumption erm that all the things I 've just mentioned about pronunciation and speech rates and things , erm they all occur in in order to encourage more interaction between the two speakers . |
| 27 | Not too bright at all , I put just that bit of white in like you said and it 's coming on lovely . |
| 28 | And it 's running for ten hours . |
| 29 | The centre has most information and contacts on Europe and North America and it is working on those on the Indian subcontinent , Eastern Europe and Africa . |
| 30 | The new section from Market Bosworth to Shenton will take the length of the operating section to four and a quarter miles and it is opening after ten years of fund-raising . |