Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 2 | It 's about individual people realising they can do something beyond what they may normally expect to achieve . ’ |
| 3 | It 's about one person deciding whether another person ( the unborn baby ) will live or die . |
| 4 | It 's like two bicycles fighting . ’ |
| 5 | It 's like two people trying to keep up a conversation . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it 's like foreign lagers becoming quite popular in this country , English beers have a growing reputation abroad , ’ he added.Although the Italians liked the taste of Tolly 's 1048 Cantab beer , they were not so impressed with the brewery 's taste in labels.The controversial naked lady , the Bacchante , on the label of Cantab beer , had already been described by Cambridge students as ‘ sexist ’ and the Italians felt it was ‘ not very English ’ . |
| 7 | If Therapy ? feel they need their own ‘ Teen Spirit ’ icon to fling into the fray , t hen here it is with both barrels blazing . |
| 8 | ‘ The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ’ |
| 9 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 10 | While the Plowden Report was influential in giving approval to an expansion of home-school links , it was to some extent reflecting the social climate of the times . |
| 11 | The apparent paradox of Nizan 's ideological/psychological mentality needs to be scrutinised at this juncture since it is clear that after 1935 his intellectual itinerary became far more complex , shaped as it was by countless pressures arising not only from a new party strategy but also from a deepening international political crisis . |
| 12 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 13 | It was like three ants moving into Wembley Stadium . |