Example sentences of "[subord] it [be] [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the policy-making area is technical and complex , public officials have a decided advantage , even though the state may not have a total monopoly of technically relevant knowledge in policy areas where it is pursuing corporatist arrangements . |
| 2 | And this man came to the door , and he went to get the hold belt , that should just have a tape recorder on conversation just throughout the week so it 's getting all sorts of rubbish going in there , |
| 3 | Some cloners think Sun regrets making previous Sparcstations too easy to knock off so it 's putting some obstacles in the way . |
| 4 | At the moment paid employment ( even if it 's making rubber ducks for export ) brings status and income , whereas work , which we all do to keep going and may well do voluntarily in our communities , carries neither income nor status . |
| 5 | It could n't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs . |
| 6 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 7 | Cleared , were dispersed , and what have you got next , anyway after that , that that 's obviously a very problematic thing , because it 's using poetic images which are very difficult to move into modern standard English , but what have we got for the rain of heaven please ? |
| 8 | While it was printing two things happened . |
| 9 | This means that tax evasion is depriving the state — and the people who benefit from what the state can do for them , whether it is building better roads and hospitals or cleaning the seashore or guarding the frontiers — of a sum amounting to about 10% of the current official national income . |
| 10 | According to the Post , the government watchdog took the step because it is battling with the two companies over discount and marketing data , which it reckons it needs in order to determine whether it is paying fair prices for computer products . |
| 11 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 12 | But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects . |
| 13 | If that is the case , when Brent council was at its most extreme , when it was spending enormous sums of ratepayers ' money and destroying services , why , at every turn , did the hon. Gentleman 's party support the Labour party through thick and thin ? |
| 14 | They will actually responsibility of Local Government and er we 've tried to put in here something that even Conservative Councillors could support , even though it 's attacking Conservative Ministers , cos they must actually believe in Local Government to actually serve on Local Government , one would think , but er , but th the problems of under-funding are th could be very serious . |
| 15 | They will actually responsibility of Local Government and er we 've tried to put in here something that even Conservative Councillors could support , even though it 's attacking Conservative Ministers , cos they must actually believe in Local Government to actually serve on Local Government , one would think , but er , but th the problems of under-funding are th could be very serious . |
| 16 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 17 | ‘ Anthem for Doomed Youth ’ has a completely different angle of viewing as it is comparing two types of death , slaughtering and a ceremonial death . |