Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you might expect , Texas Instruments Inc is pressing the high performance per MHz it 's reportedly getting from Viking : its SPEC sheets claim the 50MHz cycle time is scalable to 100MHz ‘ over time ’ and the four-way multi-processing that will supposedly offer a peak of 600 MIPS is scalable to 1200 MIPS again ‘ over time ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's simply asking for trouble , ’ she said . |
| 3 | We are customers of a massive industry trying to make money and I understand that for some it 's just staying in business that counts . |
| 4 | Er I mean if he were responsive and would work and would try things for himself but it , it 's , it 's like hacking at concrete with a knife . |
| 5 | He 's walking like that , it 's like walking round town with a bloody magnet on your back you know he 's there , he 's there . |
| 6 | I 've do It 's like it 's like practising for football I mean you might be the best footballer in the world and you say you know they say well you 've just won the cup say |
| 7 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |
| 8 | And it is surely dying from cancer with dignity which requires bravery . |
| 9 | It is also asking for air-time on radio and television , and for access to national and provincial newspapers and magazines . |
| 10 | It is desperately looking for advice , help or just moral support from museums and institutions in the west . |
| 11 | As a result , abattoir owners are beginning to speculate that the operating framework of the beef sector could swing overwhelmingly towards exports — as it is already doing with lamb . |
| 12 | It is not responsive to the local communities and it is totally lacking in democracy . |
| 13 | At the moment it is still looking for funding from private and public sources ; the Netherlands has provided an initial grant of US$1.5 million . |
| 14 | Despite its problems ( see page 1 ) OSF says it is still shooting for self-sufficiency by 1994 . |
| 15 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 16 | ‘ It is now moving towards balance sheet entirely . |
| 17 | Britain , of course , lagged behind the States , but it is now beginning to surface . |
| 18 | If the hon. Gentleman would listen rather than talk , he would learn that the price formula for gas has also been revised : where it was minus 2 on the controllable costs it is now going to minus 5 — another tough target . |
| 19 | There is already a KSR1 at Manchester University and the company has established a UK subsidiary ; it is now opening for business in Germany and France . |
| 20 | Nor do I feel compelled to depart from that conclusion by the fact that , under the present practice , a local authority which acts as a relator in a relator action is required to give an undertaking in damages even though it is so proceeding in order to enforce the law in the public interest . |
| 21 | Though it was completely lacking in originality its publication in Western Europe drew the admiration of many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment . |
| 22 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 23 | Now , at last , here in Hochhauser , looking her best , with her dear , dear friends from the past , she knew it was all going to work . |
| 24 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |