Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the bigger clients are getting the message and do keep in touch but with the rest it 's proving hard work teasing out the issues and reassuring there 's value in it for them . |
| 2 | It 's taken gravity-defying tightrope walking by boxing authorities to keep the title unified , even if it is once again threatening to be shattered into pieces by Bowe 's refusal to honour a deal to immediately defend against Lewis . |
| 3 | It 's offering all organisations using DECstations a free single-user copy of its X.desktop manager ( which runs on all DEC operating system platforms ) . |
| 4 | The temples seem to have had their own ivory carvers , but it is known that ivory carving also went on at Palaikastro , where there was no temple . |
| 5 | It is expected that traffic travelling southbound on the A5 and M1 , and intending to go west along the North Circular , will be diverted via Brent Cross roundabout . |
| 6 | In this case a solution was at hand , although it helped the teacher rather more than the children : it was to neglect those children working in curriculum areas perceived to be relatively unimportant ( such as art and topic work ) , to devise for them low-level activities which could be tackled with minimal teacher intervention , and to focus attention on those children who demanded it . |
| 7 | But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games ! |
| 8 | In the case of Archer-Shee v Baker ( 1927 ) 11 TC 749 , it was held that income arising to a beneficiary from a non-resident trust where the beneficiary was the sole life tenant resident in the United Kingdom was income receivable by the beneficiary from the specific securities stocks , shares , rents or other property which constituted the trust fund . |