Example sentences of "be [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The C E C are accepting it , all those in favour ? |
| 2 | This Bill is the flagship of the Government 's legislative programme , and Labour Members are opposing it hook , line and sinker . |
| 3 | If it 's a will it 's the executor or the one executor of the number of them who are proving it . |
| 4 | In the final analysis you are getting nervous and undermining your chances for success because you are frightened of something which really does not matter as much as you are allowing it to . |
| 5 | Er not because of the number of deaths is going to vary sig very significantly as Mrs said , we we are allowing it to improve over time gradually . |
| 6 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 7 | A sheep had been eating it and poor Sir Thomas got the wrong one . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 9 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 10 | who 's been eating it ? |
| 11 | To be sure we are seeing it in a grotesquely parodied form , but what leads to Celia being nearly raped is nothing less than the prevailing structures of patriarchal and heterosexual authority : it is after all her hitherto paranoidly jealous husband who has literally dragged her to Volpone 's bed . |
| 12 | ‘ You are seeing it . ’ |
| 13 | The galaxy shows several extraordinary features that may be connected with its extreme youth ( we are seeing it as it was when the universe was a third of the age that it is today ) . |
| 14 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 15 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 16 | This will vary according to the feed you are using ; the type of swimfeeder ; the size and number of the perforations in it , and the type of swim where you are using it . |
| 17 | Your competitors are using it . |
| 18 | We have also developed genetic sexing methods such as I described earlier for A. albimanus and we are using it with species such as A. gambiae s.s . , |
| 19 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 20 | Since we are using it for choices of ends , we can not treat the awareness it prescribes simply as a universal means to our ends whatever they may be , which is what the admonition suggests in ordinary discourse ( with the implication ‘ If you do n't you 'll suffer for it ’ ) . |
| 21 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 22 | But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian , for example , as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma , be sure you know why you are using it . |
| 23 | Parents should also be carefully questioned about how they are using it and should describe in detail what they do . |
| 24 | He added ‘ The problem with the 88000 , although it 's a fine component and runs perfectly , is that none of the main manufacturers of development machines ( Hewlett-Packard , Sun , IBM ) are using it . |
| 25 | ‘ I believe passionately in the future of this industry but what chance have we got when an avaricious few are using it for their own crazy purposes ? ’ |
| 26 | In the extracts from cases and other materials which follow , where the term ‘ sovereignty ’ is used , the judges or writers are using it in the sense of supremacy . |
| 27 | This is the way in which , it seems , an increasing number of communities are using it . |
| 28 | The company selling you a new machine should be prepared to give you the names of others who are using it . |
| 29 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 30 | Do n't erm , right now , now say erm , realize that when you are using it . |