Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | Just as the old order has fallen in eastern Europe , so it is falling in educational establishment circles in Britain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It acts as if it is looking after all our interests in ways too subtle and refined for us to understand . |
| 5 | Does n't look as if it 's moving at all to me . |
| 6 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 7 | I do n't get the feeling that they particularly care whether this murder is solved or not ; anyway they want it solved on their terms and if it 's going to muddy a lot of their holy bloody waters they 'd like us to go away . |
| 8 | look 's like that an all , I want to know if it 's going in weekly or monthly |
| 9 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 10 | But it 's still at your , if it was going to another sector I could understand that attitude , but when it is being , it 's still within Intercity , I just can not understand that that is the attitude we take . |
| 11 | If it was travelling at 20 mph and someone else recklessly drove into it , the aggravated offence would have been committed . |
| 12 | If it were travelling at any other velocity , it would either move out into deep space , or crash into the Sun , or move into another orbit . |
| 13 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 14 | The United States is particularly vulnerable in this respect , both because it is lacking in some valuable resources , and because its vast productive machine uses so much of everything . |
| 15 | He said : ’ It is designed mostly for London and turns reality on its head because it is dealing with late trains . |
| 16 | I draw his attention to the fact that we are now net exporters of televisions whereas we were net importers under the Labour party and to the fact that motor output has been expanding in recent years whereas it was declining under Labour . |
| 17 | First , theory needs to be explicit about whether it is dealing with symmetrical or asymmetrical , reversible or irreversible relationships . |
| 18 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
| 19 | Besides , its new paymaster — the Russian leadership — is keen to avoid anything that would embarrass Britain , just when it 's asking for Western aid . |
| 20 | To attack the predator while it is in a stable position on the ground is far riskier than to do so when it is clinging to high branches . |
| 21 | Finally , the variety of ways in which linguistic terms have been applied to literary narrative suggests that even in the most linguistically conscious theories of literature , the role of linguistics remains subservient : it can never supply literary analysis with prescriptive procedures when it is operating at this level of the literary text . |
| 22 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |